John Michael Lawrie, our CEO and Chairman, is a globally recognized business and technology strategist with proven success in transforming enterprises to create growth, new market opportunities, and value for stakeholders. Mr. Lawrie is the founder and chief executive officer of The Lawrie Group, a private company providing consulting services on value creation and enterprise transformation, and related investment management services.
Mr. Lawrie served as chairman, president, and chief executive officer of DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), a leading, independent end-to-end IT services company serving more than 6,000 global enterprise clients in more than 70 countries. A Fortune 500 company, DXC was formed in April 2017 through the merger of the Enterprise Services business of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (“HPE”) and Computer Sciences Corporation (“CSC”), where he served as president and chief executive officer from May 2012 to March 2017 and was appointed chairman in December 2015.
Mr. Lawrie grew DXC’s industry practices, talent base, and solutions portfolio with several strategic investments and acquisitions including: argodesign, Aspediens, Fixnetix, Fruition Partners, Luxoft, Molina Medicaid Solutions, TESM, Tribridge, and UXC. These acquisitions, coupled with the development of a global network of digital transformation and innovation centers, accelerated DXC’s transformation from an IT services provider to a scaled digital services provider during his tenure. Mr. Lawrie spearheaded more than 200 industry-leading alliances, with companies such as Amazon Web Services, Inc., AT&T, Inc., Dell Technologies, HP, Inc. (“HP”), HPE, International Business Machines Corporation (“IBM”), Micro Focus International plc, Microsoft Corporation, PriceWaterhouseCoopers (“PwC”), SAP SE, ServiceNow, Inc. and VMware Inc. Mr. Lawrie retired from DXC in December 2019.
Mr. Lawrie has also served as chairman of the board of directors of Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP), formed by the merger of DXC’s U.S. Public Sector business with Vencore Holding Corporation and KeyPoint Government Solutions in May 2018. He also served as the initial chairperson of CSRA, Inc. for two quarters following its spinoff from CSC and prior to the merger of CSC with the Enterprise Services unit of HPE.
Mr. Lawrie joined CSC from UK-based Misys plc, a leading global IT solutions provider to the financial services industry, where he served as group chief executive from November 2006 to March 2012. He also served as the executive chairman of Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc. from October 2008 to August 2010. From February 2007 to February 2015, Mr. Lawrie also served on the board of directors at Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR). Prior to Misys, Mr. Lawrie was a partner with ValueAct Capital, a San Francisco-based private investment firm, served as the chief executive officer of Siebel Systems Inc. Mr. Lawrie spent the first 27 years of his career with IBM, where he rose to the role of senior vice president and group executive, responsible for sales and distribution of all IBM products and services worldwide.
Mr. Lawrie is a trustee of Drexel University, Philadelphia. Mr. Lawrie holds a B.A. in history from Ohio University and an MBA from Drexel University. Mr. Lawrie also received an honorary doctorate from the Shiv Nadar University in India.