| | Ron Rittenmeyer, president and chief executive officer of EDS, an HP company, retired at the start of the new year.
At the same time, EDS will become a business unit within HP’s Technology Solutions Group (TSG), providing customers with the industry’s broadest portfolio of information technology products and services. The newly combined TSG business | |
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| | group accounted for roughly $14.6bn, or 43% of the company's total revenue in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2008 and more than half of the company’s operating profit.
The new organisational structure will allow HP to sell and deliver more integrated solutions for its customers. In addition, the change is expected to allow HP to continue to quickly | |
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| | operations, reporting directly to Ann Livermore, executive vice president of TSG. Rittenmeyer, who joined EDS in 2005 and was named chairman and CEO in 2007, played a key role in accelerating the company’s transformation and subsequent integration within HP.
Eazor, 46, currently serves as senior vice president of Transformation. He led the EDS deal team | |
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| | through its acquisition by HP and the subsequent integration. Prior to the acquisition, Eazor was executive vice president of Corporate Strategy and Business Development at EDS. He also served as senior vice president of EDS Asia Pacific, with responsibility for more than 30,000 employees in the region including India, China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand. | |
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