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form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "IBM"
cik: "0000051143"
company_name: "INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP"
filed_at: "2026-10-01T20:18:19+00:00"
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event_type: "leadership"
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source: SEC EDGAR
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# IBM elects Siris co-founder Frank Baker to board; directors increased to 14

## Summary
- Frank Baker, 53, co-founder and Managing Partner of Siris Capital Group, elected to IBM's board effective October 1, 2026.
- Baker joins the Directors and Corporate Governance Committee; Siris has deployed more than $9 billion of equity capital since inception.
- IBM amended Article III, Section 2 of its By-laws to raise the board size to fourteen directors, effective October 1, 2026.
- Baker previously was a Managing Director at Ripplewood Holdings and began his career in M&A at Goldman Sachs; he holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
- CEO Arvind Krishna cited Baker's expertise and strategy-driven mindset in advancing IBM's enterprise-wide transformation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000051143-26-000086
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: IBM
- cik: 0000051143
- company_name: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP
- filed_at: 2026-10-01T20:18:19+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51143/000005114326000086/0000051143-26-000086-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51143/000005114326000086/ibm-20261001.htm

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