International Business Machines elected Frank Baker, 53, to board

International Business Machines filed Form 8-K with the SEC on 2026-10-01. The board elected Frank Baker to the board, effective October 1, 2026. According to the company, the announcement followed on October 1, 2026.

Arvind Krishna, IBM chairman, president and chief executive officer, said: "We are excited to welcome Frank Baker to our Board of Directors." According to the company, the remark was part of the announcement on October 1, 2026.

Frank Baker was a Co-founder and the Managing Partner of Siris Capital Group. Siris was a private equity firm, a firm that buys stakes in companies to improve and later sell them, and it had deployed more than $9 billion of equity capital since inception. Baker led its investment strategy.

Baker brought an investor view to board discussions because his work involved choosing where investment funds went. For private investors, that background helped in judging how the board reviewed spending and long-term plans.

Prior to Siris, Baker was a Managing Director at Ripplewood Holdings. He began his career in mergers and acquisitions at Goldman Sachs, work centered on companies combining or buying each other.

Baker held an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in economics from the University of Chicago. The MBA was a graduate degree in business management. He served as a trustee of the University of Chicago and as Chairman of the Board of the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center.