{"id":7840,"date":"2021-07-05T10:46:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T14:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=7840"},"modified":"2021-07-23T13:55:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:55:28","slug":"jim-whitehurst-steps-down-as-ibm-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/jim-whitehurst-steps-down-as-ibm-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Whitehurst Steps Down As IBM President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Current IBM Chairman and CEO, Arvind Krishna, announced Tuesday that Jim Whitehurst will step down as IBM President and he will step aside to become an IBM consultant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many observers of IBM and Red Hat assumed that Whitehurst, who played a crucial role in getting IBM and Red Hat to work on the same hybrid cloud site, among other things, would one day become CEO of the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While IBM and Red Hat flourished under Whitehurst&#8217;s leadership, with IBM&#8217;s total revenue of $25.1 billion up 20% and Red Hat&#8217;s revenue up 18%, it was no surprise that IBM shares fell about 4.4% after the company&#8217;s chairman announced his departure.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/red-hat-leader-jim-whitehurst-steps-down-as-ibm-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">orignal story<\/a> in ZDNet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Whitehurst steps down as IBM president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7879,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions\/7879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}