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IBM software veteran Robert LeBlanc is stepping down after just two years heading the firm's growing cloud business.

Chief executive Ginni Rometty announced LeBlanc's planned departure on Wednesday as part of a restructuring of IBM's cloud and POWER hardware units. LeBlanc, who joined IBM in , will retire in June.

IBM has named its vice president and director of IBM research Arvind Krishna as senior vice president, Hybrid Cloud.

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Krishna will report to senior vice president, Cognitive Solutions and IBM Research John Kelly.

Rometty praised LeBlanc as "a founding father of IBM's software business" whose imprint on IBM ran "much deeper". He was named head of IBM's newly formed cloud unit in January and in November IBM merged the public cloud platform with Watson.

As is so often the IBM way, LeBlanc served in a number of executive posts.

These included senior vice president of middleware, general manager for worldwide software sales, general manager for application integration and mi Another senior IBM exec departs as cloud & POWER hardware ... NABY