Bill Thomas

Current

• Senior Vice President, EMEA at EDS

Past

• Regional Vice President, UK and Ireland at EDS

Education

• Brunel University
• City University
• Cranfield University - Cranfield School of Management

• Leeds Metropolitan University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Bill Thomas’s Summary

A recognised authority in IT-enabled business transformation, programme and change management.
Chaired EDS UK for ten years and chairs the EDS Global Government and Defence Industry.
In 2008, was instrumental in the launch of the International Centre for Programme Management (ICPM) at Cranfield University, a research facility aimed at developing expertise in programme and project management.
Served as a Director of e-skills UK (the sector skills council for the UK ITC industry) for nine years.
Member of the advisory board of Business for New Europe and the Ovum Executive Council.
Member of the President’s Committee of the CBI for last 8 years and served on its International Advisory Board.

Bill Thomas’s Experience

• Senior Vice President, EMEA

  EDS

  (Public Company; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2002 — Present (7 years )

  With an annual revenue in excess of $10 billion, an employee base of 40,000 and a geographic footprint covering 36 countries, EMEA is consistently one of the company’s fastest growing regions. It is the result of integrating and restructuring EDS and HP’s Outsourcing business.

• Regional Vice President, UK and Ireland

  EDS

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  1999 — 2002 (3 years )

  A $3 billion business serving most Whitehall departments, as well as a wide range of commercial customers. Also served as a key member of a task force focused on transforming EDS to achieve a $2 billion productivity improvement during this time.

Bill Thomas’s Education

• Brunel University

  M.Sc , Digital systems

• City University

  Honorary D.Sc ,

• Cranfield University - Cranfield School of Management

  MBA ,

• Leeds Metropolitan University

  B.Sc hons , Mathematics

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