{"id":41688,"date":"2021-01-08T14:18:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T14:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=2539f4010b39e5755aa30bb842961262"},"modified":"2021-01-08T14:18:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T14:18:31","slug":"ibm-appoints-martin-schroeter-as-ceo-of-infrastructure-spin-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ibm-appoints-martin-schroeter-as-ceo-of-infrastructure-spin-off\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM appoints Martin Schroeter as CEO of infrastructure spin-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field-name-field-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"field-item even\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/authors\/bobby-hellard\">Bobby Hellard<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">8 Jan, 2021<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"short-teaser\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/\" title=\"\" class=\"combined-link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body\">\n<p>IBM has appointed its former chief financial officer, Martin Schroeter, as\u00a0the boss of its newly separated infrastructure business.<\/p>\n<p>Schroeter will be initially tasked with oversing the formation of the &#8216;NewCo&#8217; unit, following the company&#8217;s decision to spin off its managed infrastructure services business in October.<\/p>\n<p>Following the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/cloud\/hybrid-cloud\/358167\/ibm-appoints-krishna-as-chairman-of-the-board#:~:text=Krishna%20will%20replace%20Ginni%20Rometty%20in%20January%20following%20her%20retirement%20from%20the%20company&amp;text=Krishna%20again%20succeeds%20former%20CEO,company%20on%2031%20December%202020.\"  data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/cloud\/hybrid-cloud\/358167\/ibm-appoints-krishna-as-chairman-of-the-board#:~:text=Krishna%20will%20replace%20Ginni%20Rometty%20in%20January%20following%20her%20retirement%20from%20the%20company&amp;text=Krishna%20again%20succeeds%20former%20CEO,company%20on%2031%20December%202020.\">appointment of Arvind Krishna<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/cloud-essentials\/hybrid-cloud\/7751\/ibm-snaps-up-red-hat-for-34-billion\"  data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/cloud-essentials\/hybrid-cloud\/7751\/ibm-snaps-up-red-hat-for-34-billion\">2019&#8217;s Red Hat acquisition<\/a>, IBM will\u00a0now focus its attention on the cloud market, with\u00a0its new business, which has still yet to be named, focusing on the management and modernisation of global IT infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Martin is a world-class leader and is uniquely qualified to drive the long-term success of the new, independent company,&#8221; said Krishna. &#8220;Martin has the strategic vision and business judgement to realise NewCo&#8217;s enormous potential as the global leader in managed infrastructure services. He is an inspiring, results-driven executive and the right CEO to lead NewCo through the spin-off process and beyond.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>IBM have a history of promoting executives from within.\u00a0Like Krishna, and his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/leadership\/8404\/ibm-ceo-ginni-rometty-steps-down\"  data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/leadership\/8404\/ibm-ceo-ginni-rometty-steps-down\">predecessor Ginni Rometty<\/a>, the role of CEO has often gone to company veterans\u00a0that have held a number of positions\u00a0over a period of decades.<\/p>\n<p>Schroeter, who joined in 1992, is\u00a0returning to the company having left in June 2020. Before his departure, he held a number of executive roles in sales and marketing,\u00a0most notably CFO of the company. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>      Bobby Hellard<\/p>\n<p>        8 Jan, 2021    <\/p>\n<p>      IBM has appointed its former chief financial officer, Martin Schroeter, as\u00a0the boss of its newly separated infrastructure business.<br \/>\nSchroeter will be initially tasked with oversing the formation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41690,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41688\/revisions\/41690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}