Top 100 CEOs, 1-25
Elix, who has served in his present role since October 1999, is responsible for worldwide operations for IGS. He has also served as general manager of IGS' Americas and North America divisions. In 1996, he was appointed president and CEO of Integrated Systems Solutions (ISSC), a wholly owned services subsidiary of IBM.
Richard Brown, Chairman and CEO, EDS
Brown joined EDS in December 1998. Prior to his appointment, he served as CEO of Cable and Wireless (C&W) in London, where he engineered a series of alliances, acquisitions and divestitures that brought the company into cable television and made it a major player in Internet technology. Brown has served in the telecommunications industry for more than 28 years, holding a variety of executive-level positions.
Joe Forehand, Chairman and CEO, Accenture
During his tenure, which dates back to 1972, Forehand has had leadership responsibility for 11 of Accenture's 18 industry groups. Prior to becoming CEO in November 1999, he was the managing partner of the Communications and High Tech operating group. In that role, he managed key components of Accenture's global e-commerce efforts. Throughout his career, Forehand has worked closely with a variety of digital industries, including media and entertainment companies.
Linda Gooden, President, Lockheed Martin Integration and Technology Services (LMIT)
Gooden, named to her current position in 1997, served as vice president of Lockheed Martin's software support services unit from 1994. She previously held increasingly responsible positions within the corporation's Data Systems and Information Systems companies. LMIT is a 7,000-member organization responsible for IT contracts that supply business systems, managed services and infrastructure solutions to customers of U.S. defense and civil departments, states and commercial companies.
Van B. Honeycutt, Chairman and CEO, Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC)
Honeycutt joined CSC in 1975 as regional marketing manager for the company's timesharing and value-added network. Under his leadership, CSC has recorded dramatic growth, especially in its outsourcing and international operations. Honeycutt has managed CSC's aggressive strategy of acquisitions, mergers and alliances that has strongly positioned CSC in key vertical markets, such as financial services and health care. He also has led CSC to prominence in commercial outsourcing.
Peter Blackmore, Former Executive VP of Sales and Services, Compaq Global Services
Blackmore, who joined Compaq in 1991, was named to his executive vice president position in November 2000. He was responsible for the worldwide field organization, Compaq Global Alliances, the Quality and Customer Satisfaction organization and Compaq Global Services. He was also responsible for Compaq's partnerships with distribution partners. As a result of HP's acquisition of Compaq, Blackmore's title is now executive vice president of HP Enterprise Systems Group.
Greg Brenneman, CEO and President, PWC Consulting
Selected to head PWC Consulting earlier this month, Brenneman had been serving as president and CEO of TurnWorks, a private equity firm he founded in 1994. Prior to that, he was president and COO of Continental Airlines. During his six years at Continental, Brenneman led the carrier back from years of losses to renewed profitability and prominence and helped it achieve the distinction of being named one of the "100 Best Places To Work" by Fortune magazine.
Ann M. Livermore, HP Corporate VP and President of Services, HP Consulting
Livermore, executive vice president of the new HP Services, joined HP in 1982. She held a variety of management positions in marketing, sales, research and development, and business management before being elected a corporate vice president in 1995. She has been involved with HP's enterprise customers for nearly 20 years, building organizational capabilities and services expertise.
Arthur F. Weinbach, Chairman and CEO, Automatic Data Processing (ADP)
Weinbach has been in his current position at ADP since 1998. He joined the company in 1980 as a corporate vice president, after having served as a partner with Deloitte and Touche. He became CFO in 1982 and joined the board of directors in 1989. In 1992, he was named executive vice president and in 1994 was named president and CEO. Weinbach was elected president and COO in 1996.
Eduardo R. Menasce, President, Enterprise Solutions, Verizon Enterprise Solutions Group
Menasce began work with GTE in 1974 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Before the creation of Verizon Communications in 2000,formed by the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE,he held several significant international positions at GTE, living and working in Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela and France. His current responsibilities include oversight of all sales, marketing and services delivery for Verizon's largest business and government customers.
Erich R. Reinhardt, Medical Solutions, President and CEO, Siemens Medical Solutions
Reinhardt started his career at Siemens AG in 1983 as manager of applications development in magnetic resonance tomography. In 1986, he was promoted to manager of this division. He worked in India as managing director of Siemens Ltd. Bombay between 1990 and 1993, and in 1994 was appointed first member, then president and CEO of Siemens Medical Solutions. Reinhardt is also an honorary professor at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.
Keith G. Block, Executive VP, Oracle Consulting
Block has 16 years of experience at Oracle. Prior to his current position, he was senior vice president of Oracle's commercial consulting practice, where he reinvented Oracle's approach to selling and delivering consulting services. Another recent role was group vice president of East Consulting, a successful practice that achieved year-over-year revenue growth of 50 percent and the highest profitability of any Oracle Consulting group worldwide.
J.R. Beyster, Chairman, President and CEO, Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC)
Beyster began his career in the early '50s as a senior scientist at Westinghouse. He founded SAIC in 1969 and shared ownership with employees from the beginning. Today, SAIC has become one of the largest and fastest-growing employee-owned companies in the world, with more than 40,000 employees and upward of $6.1 billion in revenue. Beyster believes the tremendous growth is a result of his employee-ownership philosophy.
Mary Jane McKeever, Senior VP of Professional Services and Outsourcing, AT&T Solutions
In more than 20 years with AT&T, McKeever has gained extensive experience as a general manager in several business operations, as well as in domestic and international sales, business planning, marketing and finance in telecommunications services and equipment. In her current role, she directs AT&T's delivery of professional services and outsourcing solutions to global businesses and oversees AT&T's operations with various government entities.
Lawrence A. Weinbach, Chairman, President and CEO, Unisys
Weinbach assumed his current duties in September 1997. He joined Unisys after completing his second four-year term as managing partner and chief executive of Andersen Worldwide in 1997, a company he joined in 1961. In February 1997, Weinbach informed his partners at Andersen that he would not seek a third term as CEO because he did not want to be bound by Andersen's mandatory retirement age of 62.
Robert Barnett, President, Commercial, Motorola Commercial, Government and Industrial Solutions Sector
Barnett has leadership responsibilities for CGISS, a Motorola sector that is a large provider of analog and digital, two-way voice and data radio products and systems for conventional, shared and private applications worldwide. Prior to joining CGISS, Barnett served in leadership positions in various telecommunications companies, including Wisconsin Bell and Ameritech's Enterprise Group. He is also a member of Motorola's management board.
Randy Dobbs, President and CEO, GE Capital IT Solutions, North America (GECITS, a division of GE)
Dobbs has held a variety of positions, including several in engineering, since joining GE in 1973. In 1984, he was promoted to the Reynosa, Mexico, affiliate business in the Motor division as plant manager, where he grew the new foreign affiliate operations until 1988. Dobbs then moved to GE Medical Systems, where he served from 1990 to 1996. He joined GE Capital in 1998, assuming the role of executive vice president for services delivery.
Herbert W. Anderson, President, Northrop Grumman Information Technology
Anderson was named president and CEO of Logicon, which was acquired by Northrop Grumman IT, in 1998. Today, his responsibilities include planning, organizing, controlling and leading the operations of Northrop Grumman IT's eight business units. He is responsible for integrating and executing Northrop Grumman IT's long-range strategic plan and for ensuring the business units continue to meet all of their objectives.
John McKenna, CEO, Siemens Business Services
As CEO, McKenna is responsible for all facets of the company. Previously, McKenna held the same position at Entex Information Services, which was acquired by Siemens in April 2000. At Entex, McKenna was responsible for organizing a major corporate restructure in 1998 that enabled the company to transition to a services-only organization, which eventually led to the acquisition by Siemens and the formation of SBS.
Doug McCracken, CEO, Deloitte Consulting
McCracken has been in his current position since June 2000. He originally joined the consulting practice in 1977 and has served in a variety of leadership positions, including managing director of the Americas and chairman of the board for Deloitte and Touche USA. Throughout his career, he has served a board array of clients in industries ranging from manufacturing to IT.
John A. Edwardson, Chairman and CEO, CDW
Edwardson's primary responsibilities include strategic direction for the company and leading its senior management team. Before joining CDW, he was chairman and CEO of Burns International Services. Edwardson also served as president and COO of United Airlines.
Donald Winter, President and CEO, TRW Systems
Winter has served in his present capacity since January 2000. He oversees operations of the business and its 15,000 employees, who offer value-added solutions through IT systems and services; systems engineering and analysis; systems development and integration; scientific, engineering and technical services; and enterprise-management services.
Jeff Lynn, VP of Professional Services, Dell Services
Lynn, a former Compaq executive, was chosen to run Dell Technology Consulting, a small but growing organization within the company aimed at offering high-end consulting services, such as designing worldwide storage networks for large institutional customers. While at Compaq, Lynn helped mold the company into a leading global IT services organization.
Randolph C. Blazer, Chairman and CEO, KPMG Consulting
Blazer, a KPMG veteran since 1977, has served as CEO since April 2000 and chairman since February 2001. From 1997 until 2000, Blazer served as a member of a two-person executive team that directed all KPMG consulting services, managing its consulting professionals within six industry lines of business around the world. From 1991 until 1997, Blazer served as partner-in-charge of KPMG's public services consulting practice.
Ken Dahlberg, Executive VP and Group Executive, General Dynamics Information Systems and Technology
Dahlberg joined General Dynamics as an executive vice president in March 2001. He is responsible for the company's Information Systems and Technology group, which includes five business units that employ approximately 12,000 workers and had revenue of $2.8 billion in 2001. Previously, Dahlberg was Raytheon's executive vice president for business development, president at Raytheon International, and president and COO at Raytheon Systems.
