IBM Investors Should Beg CEO Ginni Rometty to Leave
Ginni Rometty, has been at the helm of IBM since the start of 2012. Over that period, IBM has been nearly ruined, and without a new CEO, that will not change.
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Douglas A. McIntyre
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