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IBM bumps Belda to board

by Stephen Withers
Thursday, 26 June 2008
! IBM has elected Alain Belda to its board of directors. Related stories IFS picks a pair of unpickled people Microsoft says Watson's on to drive Software + Services in Australia It's a joke: In a Linux world without walls who needs Windows? IBM brings another jobs boost to Ballarat Giant HP/EDS merger one step closer: a $13.9 billion story Most popular skills tags .NET Active Directory C# Cisco Development HTML Infrastructure Management Network Oracle Project Management SAP SDLC SQL Server Support Sybase TCP/IP Unix VB.NET Web Services/SOAP XML "Alain is an exceptional business leader with a broad and deep understanding of the global marketplace, and his experience and knowledge will be an asset to IBM. We are delighted that Alain will be joining the IBM board." said chairman, president and chief executive officer Samuel Palmisano. Belda is chairman of Alcoa, where he has worked in various position since 1969. He is also a director of Citigroup. Belda holds a degree in business administration from Universidade Mackenzie, Brazil. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to post your comment! Tags See All Tags Appointments IBM People Stephen Withers Get stories like this delivered daily - FREE - subscribe now