EDS` Solutions Consulting line of business has announced it has recruited a number of top industry leaders to strengthen its global industry practice. Included among the new industry consultants joining EDS Solutions Consulting are long-time recognised leaders in the government, financial services, healthcare, media and entertainment and consumer industries and retail sectors worldwide.
"At EDS Solutions Consulting we understand that clients want to do business with people who know and understand the environment in which their organisation operates day-to-day," said Bram Bluestein, president of Global Industry Practices for EDS Solutions Consulting. "We are strongly supplementing EDS` long-time industry expertise with these significant, top-end hires who are known and trusted in their respective industries. These professionals, located around the globe, are taking advantage of EDS` solid industry knowledge as they establish an industry-based consulting business."
These EDS Solutions Consulting industry leaders work closely with EDS` corporate Global Industry Solutions group, which focuses on cross-line of business opportunities.
The following 11 global industry practice leaders have joined EDS Solutions Consulting:
* Rob Baldock, Global Leader, Financial Services Industry: a financial services industry veteran with more than 23 years in management and partner positions with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), with a global remit.
* Bill Clay, Financial Services Industry Leader, CRM: an industry veteran who joins EDS from Deloitte Consulting where he was partner and Americas leader for CRM Package Applications, Financial Services Practice.
* John Cherbini, Global Leader, Government: a 30-year IT solutions and government consulting leader with client experience at major consultancies, including Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), Coopers & Lybrand, IBM and Deloitte Consulting.
* Michael Harris, Global Leader, Media and Entertainment Industry Practice: a 20-year IT consulting and business process outsourcing expert from Accenture, Harris was most recently president and CEO of Alitum, a venture capital-funded technology and back office outsourcing services firm serving the media, technology and telecommunication markets.
* Robert J Meagher, Industry Leader, Financial Services - North America: a banking and financial services industry veteran who joins EDS from Cap Gemini Ernst and Young where he served as vice-president and director of the company`s US Banking Sector practice.
* Dr Michael Lisle-Williams, Government Leader - Asia/Pacific: a more than 20-year industry veteran in leading management consulting and technology projects in Asia/Pacific, particularly for Australian governments while a partner with Deloitte Consulting and Arthur Young.
* Daniel F Moats, Government Leader - North America: a 22-year industry veteran in managing IT and service organisations serving the government sector, including tenure with the Federal practices of Deloitte Consulting and Unisys.
* Lewis Pinault, Consumer Industries and Retail Industry Leader - Europe, Middle East and Africa: a 20-year technology and business process consulting veteran, author and scholar who joins EDS from private practice as a technology innovations business transformation consultant to the consumer and retail industries. Pinault has also worked for the consulting companies of Coopers & Lybrand, where he was partner and director, the Boston Consulting Group and Gemini Consulting.
* Mark J Roman, Global Leader, Healthcare Industry: a 22-year veteran of healthcare industry consulting, including tenure with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) focused on the payor/provider sector, leadership in IBM`s healthcare practice and as managing consultant with Ameritech Information Systems` North American healthcare organisation.
* Christopher K Sellers, Global Leader, Consumer Industries and Retail: a 22-year IT and business process transformation veteran with more than four years as CEO and managing director of Information Resources Inc, IRI Infoscan. Additional experience includes service as global director of Accenture`s Retail and Consumer Products Smart Store practice.
* Claude Snow, Health Care Industry Leader, Health Insurance practice - North America: Claude joins EDS from IBM Global Services, where he was public sector executive, Strategy and Change Consulting, and held responsibility for IBM`s strategy and change management in the healthcare, pharmaceutical/life sciences, government and education markets.
EDS Solutions Consulting
EDS formed its Solutions Consulting line of business in April 2002 by merging EDS` applications service line (formerly part of EDS Information Solutions) with the E Solutions line of business. The combined line of business leverages EDS` applications maintenance and development outsourcing expertise with the business process, systems integration and technology-based consulting service of E Solutions.
Since that time, EDS Solutions Consulting has been recognised as the leading IT service provider that supports more ongoing software development and maintenance than any other IT service provider in the world, according to the results of a recently released International Data Corporation (IDC) study. In its annual look at applications management, IDC estimates the overall market for the practice area at $11.1 billion, with EDS generating approximately $2 billion of this revenue, or 18%. In estimating revenue by firm, IDC used in-depth surveys and analysis, combined with data collected throughout the year about each vendor and its customers.
"EDS Solutions Consulting is led by some of the most senior IT consulting and business executives in the market, and we are expanding and strengthening our market presence by adding global industry practice leaders who have targeted and specific industry expertise," said Paulett Eberhart, president of EDS Solutions Consulting. "These global industry practice leaders will enable us to approach the market with a strategic focus on key growth industries and deliver service excellence to our clients."
EDS Solutions Consulting helps companies around the world build, run, innovate and improve complex processes and applications to optimise their business performance. The services provided by this industry-based, client-focused organisation help companies streamline operations, contain costs, open new channels of distribution, automate processes, create new revenue streams, automate supply chains and establish a Web presence globally.
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EDS, the leading global services company, provides strategy, implementation, business transformation and operational solutions for clients managing the business and technology complexities of the digital economy. EDS brings together the world`s best technologies to address critical client business imperatives. It helps clients eliminate boundaries, collaborate in new ways, establish their customers` trust and continuously seek improvement. EDS, with its management consulting subsidiary, AT Kearney, serves the world`s leading companies and governments in 60 countries. EDS reported revenues of $21.5 billion in 2001. The company`s stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: EDS) and the London Stock Exchange. Learn more at www.eds.com.
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