CA Names Richard Sills Corporate Senior Vice President and General Manager of CA Services.Industry Veteran Leads "Rapid Time to Value" Strategy to Help Customers Tackle Complex IT Challenges ISLANDIA, N.Y. -- CA (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CA) today named Richard Sills corporate senior vice president and general manager of CA Services, reporting to CA President and Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. Mike Christenson. Sills will lead the company's "Rapid Time-to-Value" strategy, focused on designing and delivering services-based solutions that help CA customers realize immediate value from their CA investments. His responsibilities include strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. and execution, oversight of worldwide services architecture, development, marketing and customer education for CA's products. "Customers turn to CA for our expertise in managing and simplifying the complexity in their IT environments," said Christenson. "Richard has demonstrated success in delivering that expertise in the Americas and his international experience makes him ideally suited for this role." Sills added, "CA Services leads with our proven expertise and thought leadership to lower customer risk through best practices. Our proven approach results in faster time to value and our proven results ensure that CA software is configured to align with the customer's business processes." Sills was most recently corporate senior vice president, CA Services for the Americas region. He joined the company in 2002 as senior vice president, CA Services, Strategy and Practice Management; in this role he developed the strategy, systems, methods, processes and best practices to improve the customer experience and increase CA Services' field efficiency and effectiveness. Prior to CA, Sills ran a successful global practice at Unisys Corporation (company) Unisys Corporation - The company formed in 1984-5 when Burroughs Corporation merged with Sperry Corporation. This was when the phrase "dinosaurs mating" was coined. focused on the provision of consulting, solutions, implementation and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services targeted at Global 100 financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. organizations. Sills held a number of leadership positions at Unisys including vice president, Sales and Services Operations and director, Enterprise Servers and Infrastructure Solutions. Sills graduated with honors from Greenwich University For the London university, see . Greenwich University is a now-inactive correspondence school and it was never accredited.[1] According to the Australian Department of Education, "Between 30 June 1998 and 2 December 2002, Greenwich University (Norfolk Island) degrees in London, England with a bachelor of arts degree in business administration. About CA CA (NASDAQ: CA) is the world's leading independent IT management software company. With CA's Enterprise IT Management (EITM EITM Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models EITM Enterprise Information Technology Management EITM Elliot in the Morning (radio show) EITM Environmental Information Technology Management EITM Enterprise It Management ) vision and expertise, organizations can more effectively govern, manage and secure IT to optimize business performance and sustain competitive advantage. For more information, visit www.ca.com. Copyright [c] 2008 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. |
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