

- Elly Keinan, group president. He most recently was venture partner of Pitango Venture Capital. Earlier, Keinan was GM of IBM North America, GM of IBM Latin America, and chairman of IBM Japan.
- Maria Bartolome Winans, chief marketing officer. Winans is a 25-year IBM veteran. Most recently she was CMO for IBM Americas. Also, Winans led marketing teams in IBM’s Watson business and in IBM’s Software unit, and she has been a leader in IBM’s Hispanic community.

“These executives bring great global expertise as we build a purpose-led culture for our new company. Elly and Maria have deep knowledge of the industry, and they share our unwavering commitment to our talented employees and to the success of our customers. I know they will play a pivotal role in the leadership team we are building to deliver excellent value to customers and shareholders.”
IBM Managed Infrastructure Services: NewCo's MSP Focus
The Managed Infrastructure Services business has relationships with 4,600 companies and a backlog of more than $60 billion.Key services of the NewCo spin-off will include hosting and network services, services management, infrastructure modernization, and migrating and managing multi-cloud environments.Amid the NewCo spin-off plan, IBM itself will double down on its hybrid cloud strategy — which leans heavily on Red Hat OpenShift.IBM vs NewCo MSP: Partnering and Competing?
Once IBM spins out the MSP business, the two companies will surely cooperate -- but they could also wind up competing on some fronts.For instance, IBM since June 2020 has acquired the following companies:- January 2021: Taos, a Top 250 Public Cloud MSP as ranked by ChannelE2E.
- January 2021: 7Summits for Salesforce cloud consulting expertise
- December 2020: Nordcloud for cloud consulting, migration and transformation capabilities.
- November 2020: SAP software developer & IT services partner TruQua Enterprise.
- November 2020: Application performance monitoring (APM) software company Instana.
- June 2020: WDG for robotic process automation (RPA) software expertise.
- June 2020: Spanugo for cloud cybersecurity posture management solutions.