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Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
IBM

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., was named chairman and chief executive officer of International Business Machines Corporation on April 1, 1993.

Prior to joining IBM, Mr.  Gerstner served for four years as chairman and chief executive officer of RJR Nabisco, Inc. This was preceded by an 11-year career at American Express Company, where he was president of the parent company and chairman and CEO of its largest subsidiary, American Express Travel Related Services Company. Prior to that, Mr. Gerstner was a director of the management consulting firm of McKinsey & Co., Inc., which he joined in 1965.

A native of Mineola, New York, Mr. Gerstner received a bachelor's degree in engineering from Dartmouth College in 1963 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1965.  In 1994 he was awarded an honorary doctorate of business administration from Boston College, and in 1997 honorary doctorate of laws from both Wake Forest University and Brown University.

Mr.  Gerstner is a director of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.  and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.  He previously served on the boards of American Express, AT&T, Caterpillar, Inc., and The New York Times Co. He is also a member of the board of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the America China Society, and the Council on Foreign Relations.  He serves as a member of the president's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee and the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations and is a member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

A lifetime advocate of the importance of quality education, Mr.  Gerstner is co-author of Reinventing Education: Entrepreneurship in America's Public Schools (Dutton 1994).  He co-chairs Achieve, an organization created by U.S. Governors and business leaders to drive high academic standards for public schools in the United States.  At IBM he has established Reinventing Education as the company's program in support of systemic school reform.  Through Reinventing Education, IBM has initiated strategic partnerships with 21 states and school districts, which are utilizing IBM technology and technical assistance to eliminate key barriers to school reform and improve student performance.

He has received numerous awards for his work in education, among them the Cleveland E.  Dodge Medal for Distinguished Service to Education - Teachers College, Columbia University, and the Distinguished Service to Science and Education award from the American Museum of Natural History.


November 1998

SOURCE:  This information courtesy of the IBM web site.

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