The news is now in the public domain so we no longer feel constrained about releasing our commentary on the new CGI/Logica top team (see here).
So, reporting to CGI President & CEO, Michael E. Roach are:
- Joao Baptista: President, Nordics, Southern Europe and South America (currently Logica President, Northern & Central Europe; Executive Partner, Energy, Utilities, Telecoms)
- Serge Dubrana: President, Central and Eastern Europe (currently Logica Chief of Operations)
- Tim Gregory: President, United Kingdom (currently CGI President, Europe & Australia)
- Colin Holgate: President, Asia Pacific (currently Logica CEO Asia/Pacific, Africa & Middle East)
- Jean-Marc Lazzari: President, France (currently President, France; Chief Client Officer)
- Doug McCuaig: President, Canada (CGI - same)
- George Schindler: President, United States (CGI- same)
By a process of elimination, the Logica executive directors who will be spending more time with their families are:
- Andy Green (CEO)
- Himanshu Rajah (CFO)
- Joe Hemming (President, Outsourcing Services & Sweden; Executive Partner, Public Sector)
- Gary Bullard (President, UK; Executive Partner, Transport, Trade & Industrial)
- Stephen Kelly (Chief People Officer)
- Amanda Mesler (President, Business Consulting; Executive Partner, Oil & Gas)
Some of the above will assist in the transition of their roles prior to their departure.
We will have so much more to write on this (especially for TechMarketView subscription service clients) but here’s some early observations to be getting on with:
- It seems Logica will no longer exists as a company – or as a brand – after 21st August (see Logica - who’s going to open the shop on August 22nd?). Good move. Breaking Logica apart and combining it with the corresponding CGI business units is spot on. We like services companies with geographical P&L’s and accountable managers running them.
- However, this does not mean that the problems that plagued ‘old’ Logica magically disappear! Indeed we note that many of the Logica ‘old guard’ (some not so old in terms of tenure) will still be running substantial parts of CGI’s empire. My feeling is that CGI will parachute in a squadron of their own senior managers to sit ‘beneath’ the Presidents and ‘lend support’.
- Also as a ‘however’, CGI is sticking to its Country/Service Line structure, with only a passing nod to 'verticals'. Doing the nodding will be CGI SVP and Chief Marketing Officer, Jame (no ‘s’) Cofran. Cofran will also ‘bring a similar focus’ to CGI’s service lines. Not sure how laser-sharp his focus can possibly be on such a broad target.
- CGI is setting up a Task Force (the term sends shivers down my spine!) to ‘expand the breadth and depth’ of CGI/Logica’s Business Consulting activities.
Much more later. But for now, one last thought – and it came from a Logica employee (though the sentiment was echoed by many). Andy Green’s valedictory email to employees was effusive in its praise to Logica’s 41,000 employees who ‘created a great business that we can all be proud of’. As the employee succinctly put it, “Since we did so well why are we being taken over?”