Bridget van Kralingen

Van Kralingen’s responsibilities at IBM include overseeing some of the company’s biggest customer accounts (think Bank of America, Coca-Cola, and CVS Caremark) and managing key partnerships with the likes of Apple and SAP. She’s also spearheading IBM’s push into cutting-edge technologies like blockchain that the company believes are key for future growth. Nearly one-third of IBM’s $79 billion in annual revenue falls under her purview, which encompasses a team of roughly 12,000 IBM workers.