Global IT services company Unisys Corp. has hired Gene Chao as senior vice president and general manager of ClearPath Forward, reporting to President and Chief Operating Officer Eric Hutto.
Chao is to drive alignment of all resources related to ClearPath Forward — Unisys’ flagship enterprise-computing environment — including technology, applications, security, services, support, engineering, supply chain and product/solution management, to drive profitable revenue growth and deliver outcomes for clients.
Chao has expertise in application of technologies such as artificial intelligence, business-technology transformation and delivery of innovation-based outcomes for clients, Hutto said.
“His experience will benefit our initiative to take the ClearPath Forward business to the next level, making it services-focused while leveraging integration of next-generation capabilities into our secure, proven technology and related vertical-industry solutions,” Hutto added.
Chao joins Unisys from IBM, where he was most recently managing partner and general manager of cognitive process re-engineering and intelligent workflows. In that role, he had profit-and-loss responsibility for IBM’s business architecture and workflow consulting business in North and Latin America. He was also executive chairman of the automation innovation unit.
“The ClearPath Forward environment provides extraordinary flexibility, resilience, extensibility and security,” Chao said. “Those attributes make it an ideal foundation for integrating cloud infrastructure, data-driven workflows and other contemporary components to create modern business systems that deliver exceptional business outcomes.”