EDS Names Randy Hendricks to Lead Applications Services and Systems Integration Organization

PLANO, Texas, May 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EDS today announced it has appointed Randy J. Hendricks as senior vice president of Applications Services and Systems Integration, effective June 16. He will report directly to Charlie Feld, the organization's senior executive vice president.

Hendricks, 51, will lead all aspects of EDS' nearly $7 billion applications business. He will work closely with Feld to accelerate EDS' growth and investments in high-end, industry applications development and consulting.

Additionally, Hendricks will help expand EDS' current global applications practices -- including SAP, Oracle and global testing. He will also drive delivery of end-to-end consulting and systems integration capabilities to clients worldwide.

"Randy brings nearly three decades of deep IT services and consulting experience in the financial services industry and government sector to EDS," said Feld. "His broad industry expertise, combined with his in-depth systems integration knowledge, will be instrumental as we help our clients modernize their global business processes. I look forward to working with Randy as EDS aggressively competes in a global market estimated at $250 billion."

Hendricks joins EDS from Unisys Corporation. As corporate executive vice president and president of Global Industries, he was responsible for driving sales, business development and delivery for the company's worldwide financial services, commercial and public sector businesses.

Previously, Hendricks served as corporate senior vice president and president of Unisys Global Outsourcing and Infrastructure Services. Under his leadership, Unisys' outsourcing operations expanded to become the company's largest services division. Hendricks earlier led the Unisys Public Sector practice in 26 countries in which the company does business in the EMEA and Asia Pacific regions.

Before joining Unisys in 2002, Hendricks served as president and CEO of Digite, a Silicon Valley based technology firm that develops integrated applications for software lifecycle management. Previously, Hendricks spent more than 10 years with Andersen Consulting, serving in senior partner positions in the firm's government and higher education consulting practices.

Hendricks earned a bachelor of science degree in industrial administration from Iowa State University.

About EDS

EDS is a leading global technology services company delivering business solutions to its clients. EDS founded the information technology outsourcing industry more than 45 years ago. Today, EDS delivers a broad portfolio of information technology and business process outsourcing services to clients in the manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, communications, energy, transportation, and consumer and retail industries and to governments around the world. Learn more at eds.com.

CONTACT: Travis Jacobsen - EDS 972 797 8751 travis.jacobsen@eds.com