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IBM CEO To Deliver Commencement Speech at Northwestern

Virginia Rometty will also receive honorary degree.

Submitted by Northwestern University

Virginia Rometty, chairman, president and chief executive officer of IBM, is among the three distinguished individuals who will be recognized with honorary degrees at Northwestern University’s 157th commencement ceremony.

Ranked number one in Fortune magazine’s “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” for the last three years, Rometty will deliver the main commencement address at 9:30 a.m. Friday, June 19, at Northwestern’s Ryan Field.

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