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Issuer:     INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP (IBM)
CIK:        0000051143
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-10-01T20:18:19+00:00
Accession:  0000051143-26-000086
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.25
Item codes: 5.02, 5.03, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2

IBM elects Siris co-founder Frank Baker to board; directors increased to 14
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- 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.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51143/000005114326000086/0000051143-26-000086-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51143/000005114326000086/ibm-20261001.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000051143-26-000086

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