Adkins, Rodney
1958- · Contribution: 1990s-2000s
IBM's first African American corporate officer and Senior Vice President (2007); an engineering and development leader who helped launch the IBM ThinkPad and led IBM's Systems & Technology Group; inducted into the National Academy of Engineering (2005)
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Impact on the world
First African-American to serve as a senior vice president at IBM, helping develop server technologies used across the industry.
Life & background
An electrical engineer who rose to senior vice president at IBM, Adkins helped develop key server technologies during his career at the company.
Sources
- The HistoryMakers; National Academy of Engineering; Georgia Tech College of Engineering
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