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Arvind Krishna became the chief executive officer of IBM, and a member of the Board of Directors, in April 2020. He was elected chairman of the Board of Directors in December 2020. Mr. Krishna joined IBM in 1990. Mr. Krishna led the IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software business unit from 2017 to April 2020 and was a principal architect of the acquisition of Red Hat, the largest acquisition in the Company's history. Mr. Krishna also served as the director of IBM's Research division from 2015 to 2020. Previously, he was general manager of IBM's Systems and Technology Group, IBM's development and manufacturing organization. Prior to that, he built and led many of IBM's data-related businesses. In 2022, he became a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is also a director of Northrop Grumman Corporation. Mr. Krishna is also on the Board of Directors of the U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum and is a Vice Chair of The Economic Club of New York. He has an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

James J. Kavanaugh, Vice President and Controller. On January 6, 2015, IBM announced that James J. Kavanaugh, Vice President and Controller, became Senior Vice President, Transformation and Operations, effective January 1, 2015. James J. Kavanaugh will become Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Finance and Operations, effective January 11, 2018.

Robert D. Thomas, Senior Vice President, Software and Chief Commercial Officer.

Mr. Gary D. Cohn, Mr. Cohn is Co-Chairman of Cohn Robbins Holding Corp, a special-purpose acquisition company. Mr. Cohn previously served as Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council from January 2017 until April 2018. Before serving in the White House, Mr. Cohn was President and Chief Operating Officer of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. from 2006-2016.

Anne E. Robinson is IBM's Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer. Previously, she was general counsel of Vanguard, and secretary of the Vanguard funds. She was the managing director of the Office of the General Counsel, where she led Global Public Policy, Legal, Compliance, and Investment Stewardship. Anne has extensive experience counseling boards of directors and senior executive teams on a range of legal, regulatory, and corporate governance matters across global markets. She joined Vanguard in 2016 from Citigroup, where she was managing director and general counsel for its global cards and consumer services business. She also served as managing counsel at American Express, holding a wide range of senior legal positions over her 10-year tenure at the organization. Prior to American Express, Anne served as counsel for Deloitte's venture capital and global outsourcing organization and started her career in private law practice at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, and McCloy. She currently serves as an independent, non-executive director of National Grid plc and is a member of their Remuneration and Safety & Sustainability Committees. Throughout her career, Anne has remained dedicated to advancing diversity in the legal field, for present and future generations. Her advocacy for underrepresented communities permeates her work as an industry leader. She serves on the boards of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA), Children's Rights, and the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia Law School. In 2023, Anne was honored as a Legend in Law at the prestigious Burton Awards, recognizing her extraordinary contributions and impact within the legal profession. She earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Hampton University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.

Mr. Liveris joined Dow in 1976 and subsequently held various executive positions before being named president and chief executive officer of Dow in 2004 and chairman in 2006. In 2016, he transitioned to the president role and continued as chairman and chief executive officer of Dow until late 2017, when he transitioned to the position of executive chairman of DowDuPont, a position he held until his retirement in July 2018. Mr. Liveris is a director of Worley, Saudi Aramco and Lucid Motors. He served as a director of NOVONIX Limited until April 2024. Additionally, Mr. Liveris is a former Executive Committee member of The Business Council, the former chairman of The Business Council and the former vice chairman of the Executive Committee of the Business Roundtable. Mr. Liveris is also a trustee of The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), and is a former trustee of the California Institute of Technology and the United States Council for International Business. He is also the president of the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games Organizing Committee.

Mr. Gorsky is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Johnson & Johnson, and one of just seven leaders to have served in the dual role of chairman and chief executive officer since the company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1944. He joined Johnson & Johnson in 1988 as a sales representative with Janssen Pharmaceutica. In 2003, he was named company group chairman of the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Mr. Gorsky left Johnson & Johnson in 2004 to join the Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, where he served as head of the company's pharmaceutical business in North America. Mr. Gorsky returned to Johnson & Johnson in 2008 as company group chairman for Ethicon. In early 2009, he was appointed worldwide chairman of the Surgical Care Group and member of the executive committee. In September 2009, he was appointed worldwide chairman of the Medical Devices and Diagnostics Group and became vice chairman of the executive committee in January 2011. He was named chief executive officer and joined the board of directors in April 2012, and was named chairman of the board of directors in December 2012. Mr. Gorsky remained chief executive officer until he transitioned to executive chairman at the end of 2021. He currently sits on the boards of Apple, JPMorgan Chase and the Travis Manion Foundation, and serves on the Board of Advisors for the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Voser joined Shell in 1982 and held a variety of finance and business roles including chief financial officer of Oil Products. In 2002, he joined the Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) Group of Companies as chief financial officer and a member of the ABB Group executive committee. Mr. Voser returned to Shell in 2004, becoming a managing director of The Shell Transport and Trading Company, p.l.c. and chief financial officer of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group. He was appointed chief executive officer of Royal Dutch Shell plc in 2009 and held that position until his retirement in late 2013. Mr. Voser was named chairman of ABB Ltd. in 2015 and was the interim chief executive officer from April 2019 until February 2020. He is a director of Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited, as well as Group Chairman of the Board of PSA International Pte Ltd, Singapore, a Temasek subsidiary. Mr. Voser is also active in a number of international and bilateral organizations. Additionally, from 2011 until 2019, he was a director of Roche Holding Limited.

Mr. Farr joined Emerson in 1981 and subsequently held various executive positions. He was named senior executive vice president and chief operating officer in 1999, chief executive officer in 2000 and chairman and chief executive officer in 2004. Mr. Farr was named chairman, president and chief executive officer in 2005 and chairman and chief executive officer in 2010, positions he held until his retirement in 2021. He is the former chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers and is a former director of the U.S.-China Business Council.

Dr. Pollack is president emerita of Cornell University, where she was also professor of computer science, information science, and linguistics. She took office in 2017 and retired in June 2024. From 2000 to 2017, Dr. Pollack held various positions at the University of Michigan with increasing responsibility, including dean of the School of Information, vice provost for academic and budgetary affairs, and finally, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs. Dr. Pollack is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Pollack has served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, and has also been president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, a member of the technical staff in the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International, a member of the advisory committee for the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering Division, and a member of the board of directors of the Computing Research Association. Dr. Pollack also served on the Steering Committee of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, the academic partnership between Cornell and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology at Cornell Tech. She is a former board member of the American Association of Universities. She is currently a Trustee of ITHAKA. In 2022, Dr. Pollack was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. In spring of 2025, she was named a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College.

Admiral Michelle J. Howard is a retired United States Navy officer. Admiral Howard began serving in the United States Navy in 1982, after graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy. During her 35 years of service, she led sailors and marines as, at various times, the Commander of a ship, an Expeditionary Strike Group, a Task Force, and a Naval theater. In 1999, she became the first African American woman to command a ship in the United States Navy. In 2014, she was the first woman to become a four-star admiral in the U.S. Navy and the first woman and African American to be appointed to the position of Vice Chief of Naval Operations, the second-highest ranking uniformed officer in the branch. Responsible for the Navy's day-to-day operations, she focused on cyber culture and information security in the digital age, as well as gender integration, in addition to oversight of a multi-billion dollar budget and the establishment of an auditing framework. In 2016, Admiral Howard was appointed by the President to serve as commander of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe and Africa and the Allied Joint Forces Command in Naples, Italy, making her the first woman four-star admiral to command operational forces. She retired from the Navy in 2017. Admiral Howard's distinguished career in national defense has included both at-sea and ashore posts, placing her in key leadership positions within the areas of engineering, operations, and strategic planning and policy. Admiral Howard is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. She was the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of International Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University from 2018 to 2020, where she taught in the areas of cybersecurity and international policy. She was appointed by the President to the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Naval Academy in 2022 and served through the end of 2024. In 2025, Admiral Howard was appointed to serve as a Distinguished Non-Resident Fellow at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security.

Mr. McNabb served as chairman of The Vanguard Group, Inc. from 2008 until his retirement in 2018 and served as chief executive officer from 2008 to 2017. He joined Vanguard in 1986. In 2010, he became chairman of the board of directors and the board of trustees of the Vanguard group of investment companies. Earlier in his career, Mr. McNabb led each of Vanguard's client facing business divisions. Mr. McNabb served as the vice-chairman of the Investment Company Institute's Board of Governors and served as its chairman from 2013 to 2016. He is a director of UnitedHealth Group and serves as the chair of its audit committee. He is also a director of Axiom. Mr. McNabb is the former chairman of the board of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, chairman of the USRowing Foundation, and former chairman of Ernst & Young's Independent Audit Quality Committee. Mr. McNabb also serves on the Wharton Leadership Advisory Board, the Advisory Board of the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia University and is also a board member of CECP: The CEO Force for Good.

Mr. Buberl joined Winterthur in 2005, which became a subsidiary of AXA in 2006. In 2008, he joined Zurich Insurance Group as chief executive officer for Switzerland. Mr. Buberl returned to AXA in 2012 as chief executive officer for AXA Konzern AG (Germany) and he became a member of AXA's executive committee. In 2015, Mr. Buberl became the chief executive officer of AXA's health business and a member of AXA's group management committee. Mr. Buberl was additionally appointed chief executive officer of AXA's global business line for life and savings and deputy chief executive officer of AXA in early 2016. He was named chief executive officer and joined the board of directors of AXA in September 2016. He is a member of the supervisory board of Bertelsmann, a member of the Climate Finance Leadership Initiative and the former chair of the Pan-European Insurance Forum. Additionally, during the past five years, he was a director of AXA Equitable Holdings, Inc., a former subsidiary of AXA S.A.

Mr. Zollar served as a former executive advisor at Siris Capital Group, a private equity group specializing in technology and telecom investments, since March 2021; previously, Mr. Zollar was an executive partner from 2014 through March 2021. While at Siris Capital Group, Mr. Zollar has worked closely with cloud-based technology providers, leading providers of enterprise security solutions and other technology and software-as-a-service companies. He served as a director of Red Hat from 2018 until 2019 and of Public Service Enterprise Group from 2012 until 2023. He is currently a director of Nasdaq Inc. and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. He is also a member of the Executive Leadership Council, a lifetime member of the National Society of Black Engineers and Harvard Fellow from the 2011 cohort of the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Mr. Zollar retired from IBM in 2011 following a 34-year career during which he held a variety of senior management positions in IBM's systems and software groups.

Ms. Brown served as chief operating officer of Fidelity National Information Services Inc.'s (FIS) Global Financial Solutions organization from January 2018 to June 2019. Prior to that, Ms. Brown served as chief operating officer, Institutional and Wholesale Business of FIS, when it acquired SunGard Financial Systems. In 2014, Ms. Brown was chief operating officer of SunGard Financial Systems. From 2006 to 2014, Ms. Brown was the chief executive officer and president of Omgeo LLC. Before joining Omgeo LLC, she was the chief executive officer of the Securities Industry Automation Corporation. She is a director of Northrop Grumman Corporation, The Charles Schwab Corporation, and Akamai Technologies, Inc., and served on the board of VMware, Inc. until 2023.

Mr. Miebach is the chief executive officer of Mastercard and a member of its board of directors. He joined Mastercard in 2010 to lead its Middle East and Africa operations, before becoming chief product officer in 2016. As Mastercard's chief product officer, he gained essential perspective into consumer insights as well as valuable experience in information security and innovation. Mr. Miebach became president in 2020 and then chief executive officer in 2021. Prior to joining Mastercard, Mr. Miebach held senior roles at Barclays Bank and CitiBank. Mr. Miebach is a member of the Business Roundtable, the International Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum. He sits on the board of directors for the Metropolitan Opera, the World Resources Institute, and the American Red Cross.

On October 1, 2026, IBM announced that Frank Baker, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Siris Capital Group, LLC, has been elected to the IBM Board of Directors, effective October 1, 2026. Frank Baker is a Co-founder and the Managing Partner of Siris Capital Group, LLC (Siris). Siris is a leading private equity firm that has deployed more than $9 billion of equity capital since inception across technology, telecommunications, and data-focused companies. Mr. Baker oversees Siris' portfolio and leads its investment strategy, driving value creation in established technology companies with mission-critical products and services that are navigating technology changes. His leadership and passion for development have been instrumental in driving the firm's success. Prior to Siris, he was a Managing Director at Ripplewood Holdings and began his career in mergers and acquisitions at Goldman Sachs. He currently serves as a trustee of the University of Chicago, Chairman of the Board of the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center, and trustee of Deerfield Academy. Born and raised near Detroit, Michigan, Mr. Baker holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in economics from the University of Chicago.

Effective January 30, 2023, Nicolas A. Fehring will become Vice President and Controller. Mr. Fehring is currently Vice President and Corporate Treasurer and previously served as Vice President and Assistant Controller. Mr. Fehring joined the Company in 2001 and has also served as the senior finance executive for various IBM business units and geographies.

Ms. Nickle Jaclyn Lamoreaux was appointed as Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of the Company.

On January 30, 2026, IBM announced that Ramon Laguarta, current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo, Inc., has been elected to the IBM Board of Directors, effective March 1, 2026. Ramon L. Laguarta, 62, is the chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo. With a strong commitment to performance and leadership, Mr. Laguarta has led PepsiCo, a global food and beverage leader, since 2018. He has played a pivotal role in PepsiCo's portfolio and cultural transformation. Prior to becoming CEO, Mr. Laguarta was president of PepsiCo, responsible for driving the company's corporate strategy. Throughout his career, he has held several executive positions and served as president of developing markets in Europe and CEO of Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa. He is a board member of the Business Roundtable. Born and raised in Barcelona, Mr. Laguarta holds an MBA from ESADE Business School in Spain and a Master of Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management.