Item 1. Business
ITEM 1. BUSINESS
General
Unisys Corporation, a Delaware corporation (Unisys, we, our, or the company), is a global information technology (IT) solutions company that powers breakthroughs for the world’s leading organizations. Our clients rely on us to help solve many of their toughest business and technology challenges in highly complex, regulated and heterogeneous environments. Our solutions and services are provided through global delivery capabilities, which allows us to execute large-scale, rapid technology migration and modernization projects. From our origins dating back to 1873 through the formation of Unisys in 1986, we have built a legacy of innovation and a reputation of trust.
In recent decades, enterprise and government interactions with customers, suppliers, employees and citizens have shifted increasingly to digital channels. Cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and quantum computing have pushed the required pace of innovation and led to a proliferation of data. At the same time, organizations face rising costs and complexity of managing IT infrastructure, data, security and compliance while integrating new technologies. We have a long track record of helping clients navigate technological change and architecting innovative solutions that simplify and accelerate digital transformation.
Our Market
The markets in which we operate are broad and rapidly evolving, encompassing a wide range of technologies, services and solutions aimed at helping organizations leverage technology to improve their operations and achieve their business objectives. Organizations across the globe are harnessing technology to reimagine their business models and create competitive advantages. In addition to technical proficiency, our clients look to us for industry-specific expertise to help maximize the impact of their technology investments.
We believe our portfolio of solutions is aligned with the markets we serve and the secular trends shaping market demand. Some examples of those trends are as follows:
Future of Work
Hybrid work has become the new standard of working. However, organizations are challenged by the constantly evolving workforce dynamics and finding the right balance between flexibility, collaboration, corporate culture, employee morale, productivity and financial results. Organizations are urgently looking to technology solutions to help them facilitate a work-from-anywhere environment where collaboration, culture and productivity are not sacrificed.
Multi-Cloud
Organizations are migrating workloads to the cloud to seek flexibility in their deployments. This flexibility enables organizations to modernize incrementally and strike the most appropriate balance between resiliency, cost, scalability and security for their unique data and applications. Designing, maintaining and modernizing hybrid infrastructures require deep expertise in traditional IT infrastructure (e.g., data centers, servers and networking hardware).
Government and Enterprise Digitization
Citizens and businesses are beginning to expect a digital experience when engaging government services such as voter registration, tax filing and application processes for licenses, permits, visas or passports. Governments and law enforcement agencies are also seeking to automate processes, leverage data to make better decisions and improve transparency, and better share information across agencies and localities. Governments are prioritizing digital transformation and strategies for evaluating and measuring their IT investments. Similarly, customers, employees, suppliers and alliance partners expect a digital experience when interacting with enterprises. Enterprise IT organizations must evaluate myriad technologies, software platforms and tools to manage and optimize their technology infrastructure and environments that support mission-critical workloads to meet these expectations while maintaining business continuity.
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Data and AI
The growing use of digital platforms, connected devices and enterprise digitization generates vast amounts of structured and unstructured data, often from disparate sources or stored within disconnected environments. Collecting, cleaning, structuring and governing disparate data has become critical to maximizing the value of an organization’s data while meeting complex compliance and regulatory standards. As a result, data engineering, data infrastructure and next-generation computing capabilities have become progressively more important. Predictive analytics is increasingly utilized for forecasting trends, optimizing supply chain management, enhancing user experience and productivity, and minimizing risk. AI and machine learning play pivotal roles in enabling companies to derive meaningful insights from large datasets and make informed decisions, which recent advancements in generative AI have augmented.
A key application of AI is automation, with organizations deploying AI to streamline or eliminate repetitive tasks, enhance productivity and reduce operational costs. Customer and employee experience is being transformed through generative AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants, providing personalized and responsive interactions. Research and development costs and development timelines are being reduced through code generation technologies leveraging large language models. In marketing, AI and generative AI enable targeted campaigns, personalized recommendations and customer segmentation, leading to more effective and data-driven strategies. Overall, integrating AI and generative AI into business processes enhances decision-making, operational agility and customer service, contributing to a competitive advantage in the modern business landscape.
Advanced Computing
Maximizing the value of data requires organizations to process their structured and unstructured data rapidly and at scale, across disparate environments. This involves complex orchestration across storage and encryption, data integration and extraction, and data execution. To effectively execute advanced analytics and AI at scale, organizations must develop diverse, advanced computing capabilities such as quantum, edge and serverless computing to support workloads across these layers. They must also move quickly to deploy new techniques, such as post-quantum encryption, to protect data being processed across environments. Clients are also transitioning to data-driven application layers that are industry-specific and optimized to achieve relevant business outcomes. Effective leveraging of next-generation computing capabilities to unlock powerful business insights rapidly, efficiently and securely requires combining data, computing and industry expertise.
Cybersecurity
Increased reliance on technology, growth of the internet, remote work adoption, greater cloud use and the evolving sophistication of threat actors have all contributed to the proliferation of cyber attacks. Now more than ever, an organization’s security posture is critically important to its ongoing ability to operate successfully. Organizations are placing a growing emphasis on end-to-end security and implementing cybersecurity solutions across organizations from laptops, desktops, tablets and sensors to servers, networks and the cloud. They must also protect against advancements in techniques deployed by threat actors, which are continually evolving.
Our Solutions
We provide our global clients with advice and essential capabilities to architect, develop, modernize, implement and integrate the technologies that power their organizations. Our solutions may be delivered on a standalone basis or through integrated offerings that may incorporate proprietary Unisys products, a Unisys-managed service offering, and/or offerings of our trusted partners. We regularly collaborate with our global network of partners, to develop joint solution offerings and to build, market and co-sell these joint solutions.
Our organizational structure aligns with our clients’ evolving needs, reflected in three reportable segments:
• Digital Workplace Solutions
• Cloud, Applications & Infrastructure Solutions
• Enterprise Computing Solutions
Digital Workplace Solutions (DWS)
We help clients shape the future of their workplace – in-office, remote, or hybrid – to help employees be more efficient and productive, which improves retention, collaboration and company performance. We advise and execute the deployment, integration and management of enterprise technologies, applications and data-driven management to orchestrate a seamless workplace experience.
We classify our DWS offerings as either “Modern Workplace” or “Traditional Workplace.” Our Modern Workplace offerings are proactive, experience-based digital solutions that transform technology support to elevate employee experience,
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communication and collaboration. In contrast, our Traditional Workplace solutions typically seek to deliver cost efficiencies for our clients.
Our Modern Workplace offerings include:
• Communication and Collaboration. We support communication with solutions for designing, deploying, managing and governing complex client ecosystems of unified communications and collaboration (UCC) applications, meeting rooms and third-party productivity tools.
• Intelligent Workplace Services. We modernize and centralize technology support organizations with solutions that enable proactive and personalized technology support for field, frontline and remote workers including experience management office (XMO) software, device subscriptions, touchless experience support, and next-generation service desk and field services offerings.
• Unified Experience Management. Our Experience-as-a-Service (XaaS) offering is a managed service designed to deliver digital employee experiences. Through a combination of digital experience monitoring software, automation services, AI and machine learning technologies, experience-level agreements and XMO, XaaS proactively identifies employee experience issues and delivers actionable insights for improvement. In addition to implementing automated workflows to prevent issues from recurring, XaaS can also predict and resolve issues before they occur.
• Modern Device Management. We provide unified endpoint management, virtual desktop infrastructure, and hardware and software asset management solutions for remotely provisioning, tracking, managing and protecting smartphones, tablets, laptops, and Internet of Things devices.
Our Traditional Workplace solutions deliver convenient, efficient technology support services at scale. Our solutions in areas such as traditional service desk, device management and field services help clients elevate employee experience and productivity while reducing the cost of support.
Cloud, Applications & Infrastructure Solutions (CA&I)
We accelerate digital transformation in the critical areas of cloud migration and management, as well as application and infrastructure transformation and modernization. Our solutions accelerate multi-cloud adoption and help our clients leverage the flexibility and efficiency of the cloud to deliver business growth. Our in-house developers also design and build customized enterprise applications that address our clients’ needs with long-term support to manage and evolve applications over time. Our CA&I offerings often incorporate cybersecurity services and solutions to enable secure environments. We classify our solutions within CA&I as either “Digital Platforms and Applications” or “Infrastructure.”
Our Digital Platforms and Applications (DP&A) solutions include:
• Cloud Management. We deliver cloud services that monitor and manage complex multi-cloud environments to control costs and uphold compliance.
• Hybrid Infrastructure. We help transform and manage our client’s IT infrastructure, whether they are modernizing their existing infrastructure, integrating with cloud platforms or fully migrating to new platforms.
• Modern Applications. We transform and manage enterprise applications with capabilities to refactor, rebuild, or rearchitect legacy applications for cloud environments. We also develop cloud-native, tailored applications and implement enterprise software and applications of our technology partners.
• Data and AI . We provide services and data engineering capabilities to migrate and modernize data and efficiently manage, govern and analyze it for improved insight and performance. We also advise clients on their AI strategies for investing, rationalizing, and measuring AI investments and infuse analytics and AI into many of our CA&I solutions, with a focus on delivering business outcomes.
• Cybersecurity. We provide advisory, implementation, and management services to streamline security environments and meet rapidly evolving security challenges.
Our Infrastructure solutions include the design, implementation, monitoring, automation and management of dedicated on-premises or hosted infrastructure.
Enterprise Computing Solutions (ECS)
We deliver proprietary and hybrid compute capabilities in the cloud and on-premises. We extend value through services to operate and manage these environments and the application workloads that run on them. We use industry expertise to create data-intensive, AI-enabled solutions to provide next-level business outcomes in financial services, travel and transportation, telecommunications, and other industries. We classify our solutions within ECS as either “License and Support” or “Specialized Services and Next-Gen Compute.”
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Our License and Support solutions include ClearPath Forward® and other Unisys IP-related licenses and associated support services. ClearPath Forward is an operating and data processing environment for high-intensity enterprise computing.
Our Specialized Services and Next-Gen Compute (SS&C) solutions include:
• Specialized Services . We provide services to manage and modernize infrastructure, applications and mission-critical systems that run on or integrate with our proprietary ClearPath Forward operating system or sit within the broader technology stacks of our ECS client base. We provide application services that help clients overcome large-scale transformation challenges by modernizing legacy applications and ecosystems for clients utilizing both ClearPath Forward and other compute environments.
• Next-Generation Computing. We help clients explore and diversify computing capabilities in areas including quantum computing and high-performance computing to optimize workload execution in diverse environments.
• Industry Solutions. We deploy specialized industry solutions managing complex enterprise workflows for clients (e.g., freight management and distribution and logistics optimization for transportation clients). We believe our blend of industry, data and computing expertise, as well as our experience leveraging advanced technologies such as machine learning and AI, gives us an ability to develop high-value programs and solutions for our ECS client base. Depending on client needs and preferences, we deploy our solutions in the cloud, in hosted environments, as a service, or on-premises.
Other Solutions
We also provide clients with a wide range of micro-market and business process solutions. Through local market teams, we enable mission critical functions spanning digital mortgage processing for financial services clients, integrated portfolio and investment management for clients with large capital investments, and data aggregation and presentation solutions for public and local law enforcement agencies, among other solutions. These solutions often involve a high level of customization, automation, and in many cases, technology and knowledge that is proprietary to Unisys. Many of our business process solutions clients seek to meet requirements for 24x7 operations or to increase business flexibility and operational efficiency through process automation, especially for high-volume or labor and time-intensive workflows.
Next-Gen Solutions
We classify our Modern Workplace, DP&A, SS&C and certain micro-market solutions as our “Next-Gen Solutions.” These solutions may incorporate advanced technologies such as AI, machine learning, hyper-automation, or quantum computing and encryption, among others. We believe our Next-Gen Solutions create significant cross-sell and up-sell opportunities with our existing clients as well as attract new clients to the Unisys platform of services. We plan to continue to invest in our Next-Gen Solutions to develop and deliver innovative products and services to effectively support our clients on their business transformation and modernization journeys.
Products
We have developed a portfolio of enterprise software and technology solutions. This ecosystem differentiates our offerings and may be sold as part of our solutions or, in some cases, provided by our partners directly. Elements of this ecosystem include:
Unisys InteliServe TM.
An integrated suite of technologies for omnichannel support, advanced analytics, automation, AI, machine learning and identity authentication that transforms service desks into intelligent, user-centric experiences for the modern workplace.
PowerSuite™
Communication and collaboration software that empowers enterprise IT teams to manage, optimize and secure multi-platform UCC environments from a unified set of dashboards. PowerSuite integrates six key areas critical to UCC platform success: user experience, administration and automation, governance, intelligent reporting, monitoring and security analytics.
Unisys Logistics Optimization TM
A software application program that optimizes capacity, freight and route processes for the cargo logistics industry and blends AI predictive modeling, ML, proprietary optimizing tools and quantum annealing to compile disparate data sources and enable near real-time decision making with continuous improvement.
CloudForte ®
Available for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, CloudForte ® is a technology framework that helps accelerate the secure movement of data and applications to the cloud, enhancing our CA&I capabilities. It features an automated software-as-a-
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service system to identify and provision private, public and hybrid cloud services, real-time analytics, and capabilities for industrial grade modernization of legacy applications.
ClearPath Forward ®
A secure, scalable operating environment for high-intensity enterprise computing, ClearPath Forward ® is hardware-independent. It provides a tested, integrated stack of software products that run on a range of modern, commonly deployed Intel x86 server platforms and select virtualization environments. Clients can deploy it either as an integrated system, as a private cloud via software services or in a public cloud. Revenue from ClearPath Forward licenses and associated support services is reported within the ECS segment.
Unisys Stealth ®
Unisys Stealth ® which has two main components to it. The main element is Unisys Stealth®(identity) is a comprehensive identity and access management solution supporting multiple biometric modalities. It provides organizations with comprehensive workflows and business rules capabilities to establish and manage trusted identities, secure access to digital and physical resources, and mitigate identity-related risks. The secondary element is Unisys Stealth ® (core) is a proprietary security software and technology framework that enables trusted identities to access micro-segmented critical assets and safely communicate through encrypted channels. It establishes user authentication, prevents lateral attacker movement and reduces data center, mobile and cloud attack surfaces. It reduces the cost and complexity of securing information and operation technology, allowing organizations to meet compliance and security mandates.
Go-to-Market
We market our products and solutions primarily through a direct sales force and a central marketing department focused on increasing awareness and visibility for our portfolio of solutions and services within the industry, including managing our relationships with industry analysts and consultants who can influence client decisions. Complementing our direct sales force, we leverage a select group of resellers and alliance partners to market our solution and services portfolio. In many cases, we may jointly develop integrated solutions with our partners that we directly or jointly sell to our clients. In certain countries, we market primarily through distributors.
Our direct global sales force consists of sales executives focused on attracting new clients and client executives responsible for account retention, services growth and client satisfaction. Our sales teams work and collaborate closely with industry solution specialists, solution architects and technologists with domain expertise from each segment.
To support collaboration and cross-selling across our global client teams, our commission structure is based on a combination of individual targets aligned with our business objectives such as growing revenue with existing clients and prospects, expanding our Next-Gen Solutions and generating in-year revenue, among others.
Our Clients
We deliver advanced IT solutions and services to some of the largest commercial and public sector clients around the world. Our public sector clients primarily consist of state, local and non-U.S. governments and agencies, as well as global not-for-profit organizations. Overall, our commercial clients are well-diversified across sectors. However, certain of our enterprise computing and business process solutions have a more concentrated client base, particularly in the areas of travel and transportation, financial services and healthcare. In 2023, no single client accounted for more than 10% of our revenue.
Our Strategy
Our primary objective is to increase the value we create for our clients to support our financial objectives of improving our revenue growth, profitability and free cash flow. In that spirit, we continually evolve our solutions and services to enable our clients to continue making breakthroughs, optimizing their processes and furthering our mission to grow through our clients’ successes. Our efforts include developing, evolving and upskilling our global associate workforce.
In addition to innovating and continually upskilling our global talent, we are executing against five key elements:
• Addressable Market Growth. We aim to expand the breadth and depth of our solutions, focusing on penetration of growing addressable markets for our Next-Gen Solutions. We are also focused on growing our footprint beyond our core enterprise, financial and public sector clients by expanding our share of mid-market clients having revenue between $2 billion and $5 billion. We believe our breadth of solutions, industry expertise, expanding partner ecosystem and agile delivery model position us to fill skills gaps and simplify digital transformation at scale for mid-market clients whom our larger market competitors may underserve.
• Land and Expand . Our go-to-market is focused on landing typically smaller-scale engagements with prospective clients and then expanding our relationships across additional solutions, segments and geographies. We sometimes
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begin with shorter-term project and advisory contracts with accelerated paths to value and return on investment. These engagements allow our associates to rapidly build an understanding of client organizations, technology ecosystems, and operational challenges and objectives, which inform our solution expansion efforts.
• Solution Development. Our approach to solution development draws from the tools and technologies of our alliance partners, our expertise in solution integration and orchestration, in-house development capabilities and industry expertise. Continually evolving each of these key solution development components is important to architect outcome-based or industry-relevant solutions to leverage innovation more rapidly across our client base, while retaining flexibility and variability to meet individual client needs.
• Gross Margin Improvement . Our solutions and services are supported by our delivery capability, which provides comprehensive, mission-critical services that address the evolving needs of our clients who operate in complex, highly regulated industries worldwide. We work to improve our delivery efficiency by increasing automation and optimizing our geographic labor distribution. We utilize strategic account management processes to proactively lead clients using our traditional solutions on a pathway of transformation into higher-value solutions.
• Operational Excellence . We strive for operational excellence through initiatives to reduce operating expenses by streamlining centralized corporate functions, rationalizing our real-estate footprint and centralizing technology costs. We also seek to minimize capital expenditure and working capital commitments within our client engagements and pursue a research and development strategy that leverages co-investment with innovation partners where possible.
Competitive Landscape
We operate in a highly competitive market that is affected by rapid changes in technology in the information services and technology industries. We face competition from many domestic and foreign companies. Our primary competitors are systems integrators, consulting and other professional services firms, outsourcing providers, infrastructure services providers, computer hardware manufacturers and software providers.
We compete primarily based on service quality, product performance, technological innovation, price and reputation, among other factors. We believe that our investment in enhancing and expanding our Next-Gen Solutions portfolio, coupled with investment in our go-to-market capabilities, will favor our competitive position. F or more information on the competitive risks we face, see “Risk Factors” (Part I, Item 1A of this Form 10-K).
Materials
Unisys purchases components and supplies from a number of suppliers around the world. We rely on a single or limited number of suppliers for certain technology products, although we attempt to ensure that alternative sources are available if the need arises. The failure of our suppliers to deliver components and supplies in sufficient quantities and in a timely manner could adversely affect our business. For more information on the risks associated with purchasing components and supplies, see “Risk Factors” (Part I, Item 1A of this Form 10-K).
Patents, Trademarks and Licenses
As of January 31, 2024, Unisys owns over 420 active U.S. patents and over 35 active patents granted in eight non-U.S. jurisdictions. These patents cover systems and methods related to a wide variety of technologies, including, but not limited to, information security, cloud computing, virtualization, database encryption/management and user interfaces. We have granted licenses covering both single patents and particular groups of patents, to others. Likewise, we have active licensing agreements granting us rights under patents owned by other entities. Our business is not materially dependent upon any single patent, patent license or related group thereof.
Unisys also maintains 25 U.S. trademark and service mark registrations, and over 285 additional trademark and service mark registrations in fifty-four non-U.S. jurisdictions as of January 31, 2024. These marks are valuable assets used on or in connection with our services and products, and as such are actively monitored and protected by Unisys and its agents.
Seasonality
Our revenue is affected by factors such as the introduction of new services and solutions, the length of sales cycles and the seasonality of purchases. Seasonality generally has not resulted in material quarterly revenue changes. Changes in timing or terms of renewals from client to client can lead to fluctuations in software license revenue from period to period since accounting rules require that software license revenue be recognized when the license term begins.
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Backlog
At December 31, 2023, firm order backlog was $3.0 billion, compared to $2.9 billion at December 31, 2022. Approximately $1.3 billion (44%) of 2023 backlog is expected to be converted to revenue in 2024. Although we believe that this backlog will be executed, the orders may be canceled, in some cases with or without penalty.
Human Capital
At December 31, 2023, we employed approximately 16,500 professionals, of which 2,600 are located in the United States and 13,900 are located in other countries around the world. We are committed to providing a productive, ethical, diverse and safe working environment for our employees.
We welcome qualified employees and do not discriminate on any legally protected characteristics. We are committed to our culture of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion not only as the “right thing to do,” but also as a business imperative. We believe creating an equitable workplace improves our organization, local communities and society.
At Unisys, we are focused on having a workforce that represents the diverse communities in which we live and serve. Based on our continued efforts to improve diverse representation, women now make up 34% of our workforce globally and employees from Underrepresented Ethnic Groups make up 33% of our U.S workforce. Although we are proud of our progress, we continue to focus our efforts on creating a culture of belonging and inclusivity.
In addition, understanding our employees’ perspectives and experiences - their engagement - is critical to our success. Each year we measure employees’ engagement through a survey and develop action plans to improve based on that feedback. This year, more than 80% of our employees participated in our annual engagement survey with 71% of participating employees indicating they felt engaged. Fostering an inclusive culture is a key component of engagement and 80% of participating employees indicated they “feel comfortable being themselves at work.” We sponsor several Associate Impact Groups, which are employee-led groups that provide support, career development and professional networking for their members. These groups center on gender, race and ethnicity, LGBTQ+, veterans and people with diverse abilities.
We recognize that continuous learning and professional development are key factors for our success. We offer a range of skill development programs that focus on leadership, AI, digital transformation, information technology, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, diversity, anti-harassment, ethics and more.
We are committed to the health, safety and wellness of our employees. We provide our employees a wide range of offerings through a range of benefits and resources, including health and welfare benefits, flexible time-off and employee assistance programs.
We also promote a culture of ethics and integrity through our Code of Ethics and Business Conduct, policies and training, and all employees must adhere to our Code. We assess human capital risk using data analytics, an annual risk assessment, investigations and other compliance-related initiatives.
Available Information
Our investor website is located at www.unisys.com/investor. Through our website, we make available, free of charge, our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act), as soon as reasonably practicable after this material is electronically filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. We also make available on our website our Restated Certificate of Incorporation, Amended and Restated Bylaws, Guidelines on Significant Corporate Governance Issues, the charters of the Audit and Finance Committee, Compensation and Human Resources Committee, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and Security and Risk Committee of our board of directors, and our Code of Ethics and Business Conduct. This information is also available in print to stockholders upon request. We do not intend for information on our website to be part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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INFORMATION ABOUT OUR EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
Information concerning the executive officers of Unisys as of February 15, 2024, is set forth below.
Name Age Officer Since
Position with Unisys
Peter A. Altabef 64 2015 Chair and Chief Executive Officer
Michael M. Thomson 55 2015 President and Chief Operating Officer
Debra McCann 51 2022 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Dwayne Allen 62 2021 Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Katie Ebrahimi 54 2018 Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer
Teresa Poggenpohl 62 2021 Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
Kristen Prohl
50 2023 Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary and Chief Administration Officer
Shalabh Gupta 62 2017 Vice President, Tax and Treasurer
David Brown
45 2023 Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller
There is no family relationship among any of the above-named executive officers. Our Amended and Restated By-Laws provide that the officers of Unisys shall be elected annually by the Board of Directors and that each officer shall hold office for a term of one year and until a successor is elected and qualified, or until the officer’s earlier resignation or removal.
Mr. Altabef has served as Chair of the Board of Directors since 2018 and as Chief Executive Officer since 2015. He also served as President of the Company from 2015 to March 2020 and from December 2021 to May 2022. Prior to joining Unisys in 2015, Mr. Altabef was the President and Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the board of directors, of MICROS Systems, Inc. from 2013 through 2014, when MICROS Systems, Inc. was acquired by Oracle Corporation. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the board of directors, of Perot Systems Corporation from 2004 until 2009, when Perot Systems was acquired by Dell, Inc. Thereafter, Mr. Altabef served as President of Dell Services (a unit of Dell Inc.) until his departure in 2011. Mr. Altabef is a member of the boards of directors of NiSource Inc. and Petrus Trust Company, L.T.A., and the advisory board of Merit Energy Company, LLC. He is also a member of the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, where he served as co-chair of its Cybersecurity Moonshot subcommittee, and a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development (CED) of The Conference Board, where he serves as co-chair of the CED’s Technology and Innovation Committee. He previously served as Senior Advisor to 2M Companies, Inc. in 2012, and served as a director of Belo Corporation from 2011 through 2013. Mr. Altabef has been an executive officer since 2015.
Mr. Thomson has been President and Chief Operating Officer since May 2022. Prior to this role, Mr. Thomson served at Unisys as Chief Financial Officer since 2019 and as Executive Vice President since 2021 after having served as Senior Vice President since 2019. Mr. Thomson served as Vice President and Corporate Controller from 2015 to 2019. Mr. Thomson served as Controller of Towers Watson & Co. from 2010 until 2015, and he previously held the same position at Towers Perrin from 2007 until the consummation of that firm’s merger with Watson Wyatt in 2010. He also served as principal accounting officer of Towers Watson from 2012 until 2015. Prior to that, Mr. Thomson worked for Towers Perrin as Director of Financial Systems from 2001 to 2004 and then Assistant Controller from 2004 to 2007. Prior to joining Towers Perrin, Mr. Thomson was with RCN Corporation, where he served as Director of Financial Reporting & Financial Systems from 1997 to 2001. Mr. Thomson has been an executive officer since 2015.
Ms. McCann has been Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since May 2022. Prior to joining Unisys, Ms. McCann was at Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., a global provider of business decisioning data and analytics, from 2009 until April 2022, where she held roles of increasing responsibility, including as Treasury Director, Assistant Treasurer, and most recently as Treasurer and Senior Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis. Prior to Dun & Bradstreet, Ms. McCann held leadership roles at Cegedim, a technology and services company, and AT&T, Inc., an American multinational telecommunications and technology holding company. Ms. McCann has been an executive officer since May 2022.
Mr. Allen has been Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer since April 2021. Prior to joining Unisys, Mr. Allen was a Global Digital Strategist at Microsoft Corporation, a technology company, from November 2019 to April 2021, where he was responsible for working with global clients driving digital transformation via the cloud. From 2017 to June 2019, Mr. Allen served as Chief Information Officer at Masonite International, a global designer, manufacturer, marketer and distributor of interior and exterior doors and door systems. Mr. Allen has also held senior leadership positions in IT at Cummins, an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures and distributes engines, filtration and power generation products from 2009 to 2017, Fifth Third Bank from 2003 to 2009 and Wells Fargo from 1998 to 2003. Mr. Allen is a member of the
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board of directors of Cross Country Healthcare since January 2023. Mr. Allen began his career at Marriott International. Mr. Allen has been an executive officer since 2021.
Ms. Ebrahimi has been Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer since 2018. Ms. Ebrahimi served as Vice President of Human Resources, Global Delivery at DXC Technology, an American multinational information technology services and consulting company from 2017 to 2018 prior to joining Unisys. From 2015 to 2017, she was Vice President of Human Resources, Enterprise Services, Global Practices & Solutioning for Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. She also served in increasingly senior roles with Cisco Systems, Inc. from 2009 to 2015, Sun Microsystems, Inc. from 2000 to 2009 and McAfee, LLC. Ms. Ebrahimi has been an executive officer since 2018. Ms. Ebrahimi will be leaving the company effective March 31, 2024.
Ms. Poggenpohl has been Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer since April 2021. Prior to joining Unisys, she ran a consulting firm, Poggenpohl Consulting, which she founded in January 2020. Ms. Poggenpohl served as the Chief Marketing and Communications Officer for North America at Accenture, a global professional services company, from 2016 to September 2019. Prior to this role, Ms. Poggenpohl held senior leadership positions within Accenture for more than twenty years. Ms. Poggenpohl has been an executive officer since May 2021.
Ms. Prohl has been Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary and Chief Administration Officer since August 2023. Prior to joining Unisys, she served as Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary at ITT Inc., a manufacturer of highly engineered critical components and customized technology for the transportation, industrial and energy markets, from July 2021 to July 2023. Prior to that, Ms. Prohl served as Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary at American International Group, Inc., a global insurance organization from June 2019 to July 2021. From 2006 to 2018, Ms. Prohl held increasingly senior legal roles at CA Inc. (aka CA Technologies) and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. Earlier in her career, Ms. Prohl was a corporate associate at Proskauer Rose LLC. Ms. Prohl has been an executive officer since August 2023.
Mr. Gupta has been Vice President, Tax and Treasurer since 2017. Prior to Unisys, Mr. Gupta served as Vice President and Corporate Treasurer for Avon Products, an American-British multinational cosmetics, skin care, perfume and personal care company from 2012 until 2016. He also served as Treasurer for Evraz North America, Inc., a manufacturer of engineered steel products for rail, energy and industrial end markets, from 2011 to 2012 and held the roles of Senior Vice President and Corporate Treasurer from 2007 to 2011, Vice President and Assistant Treasurer from 2005 to 2007 and Managing Director, Capital Markets, Pensions, Foreign Exchange from 2004 to 2005 at Sara Lee Corporation. Mr. Gupta also previously held treasury roles at Delphi Corporation and General Motors Corporation. Mr. Gupta has been an executive officer since 2017.
Mr. Brown has been Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller since August 2023. Prior to joining Unisys, he served as Vice President and Corporate Controller at FXI, Inc., a private-equity owned specialty manufacturer of sleep and comfort solutions, from September 2021 to August 2023. Mr. Brown served in various accounting roles of increasing responsibility at DuPont de Nemours, Inc., a multinational chemical company, from 2011 to September 2021, most recently as Assistant Corporate Controller. He also held various positions at Ernst & Young, LLP from 2000 to 2011. Mr. Brown has been an executive officer since August 2023.
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