IBM President and CEO Ginni Rometty will announce plans to hire 2,000 U.S. military veterans during a meeting Friday with President Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to a report.

Over a four-year period, the veterans will be hired as part of a software training and certification initiative. Rometty will also announce plans for 20 new Pathways in Technology Early College High Schools, part of a public-private partnership program that offers information technology education.

Rometty will be one of a number of tech leaders set to attend the meeting where worker training will be discussed, part of the German chancellor's first visit with Trump in the White House, Axios reported.

Rometty is a member of the President's Strategic and Policy Forum, comprised of some of America's leading business leaders, which was created in early December to advise Trump and help him put together his economic agenda.

There has been pressure for some of these business leaders to bail out of the council, especially because of Trump's two travel ban orders which would place a temporary block on refugees and immigration from several high-risk North African and Middle Eastern countries.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick was the first member to leave the council because of concern that his membership was seen as an endorsement of the president's agenda.