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EXECUTIVE PROFILES
 Lester M Alberthal Jr.
EDS
Les Alberthal’s story and that of EDS share many of the same pages.
Alberthal, the company’s chairman and chief executive officer, joined EDS just after college in 1968 -- only six
years after the company was founded. He built his career while helping build the business and, upon taking the helm of EDS in 1986, steered the company’s tremendous grrowth and leadership in the information services business.
Alberthal makes it clear that he is a leader among equals. His story, like the company’s, is about team effort. "People built EDS. Not just me. Yes, I’ve grown
up with this company, but I worked with many others to build it and make it successful. Those people have kept me here. Through them, I have the joy of being associated with the best of the best," he says.
Among Alberthal’s significant accomplishments att EDS over the years is his leadership of the company into the global marketplace. He has supported and
promoted major trade issues for EDS and its industry throughout the world -- his speaking engagements are as likely to be in São Paulo or Yokohama as they are
in Dallas or Washington, D.C. EDS’ business has followed
Alberthal’s mindset. Under his guidance, EDS has become not just a company with offices in many different countries, but also a global team that understands
and serves specific needs of customers throughout the world.
One of the things that makes the team so good, says Alberthal, is its ability to adapt to rapidly evolving client needs and changes in the information services
business. Over the years, for example, EDS has maintained strong and
steady growth amidst globalization of markets, revolutions in software and hardware, convergence of technologies, and a swiftly growing,
amazingly diverse employee population.
Alberthal has insisted on embracing the new, rather than resting on corporate laurels. "The easiest role for me, and for everyone at EDS, would be to turn our
current success into a formula, sit back and keep doing it. But that’s a
guaranteed slow death for a company. We’ve never given up and taken the easy path, and I hope we never will."
Alberthal says there are many things about both EDS and his job, however, that
have remained constant: the need for innovation, a service
mentality, and dedication to customers. He says his commitment to EDS will stay
just as steady. "When all is said and done, there’s no personal
gain or glory. It’s all about what you do for your company."
A Helper of Education
"Nothing is more important than education. It’s going to be the key to all future
individual and corporate success," Les Alberthal says of his commitment to learning.
He stays involved with charities and educational institutions around the world,
helping them ensure that tomorrow’s work force has the knowledge and experience to meet tomorrow’s challenges.
"We all must give something back to our communities," he says. "This isn’t a
particularly special idea; it’s a fundamental responsibility. EDS is involved in many forms of community service, but the aspect we keep returning to is
education."
Alberthal participates in a host of related activities. Among them: He pearheaded
EDS’ involvement in the JASON Foundation for Education; he is a trustee of Southern Methodist University; and he is proud of EDS’ annual
Global Volunteer Day.
Career Highlights
Les Alberthal is chairman of the EDS Board of Directors and chief executive officer of EDS.
Joined EDS as a systems engineer in1968
Took over Health Care division in 1974;
Became senior vice president responsible for the Insurance Group in 1979
Led non-GM North American operating groups after 1984 acquisition by GM
Named president and CEO in 1986,
Chairman of the board in 1989
Active member of the World Economic Forum; Council on Competitiveness;
Japan 21st Century Committee; U.S.
Japan Southern Conference; U.S. Japan
Business Council; Coalition of Service
Industries; U.S. Council for International
Business; the President’s National
Security Telecommunications Advisory
Committee; the President’s Advisory
Committee for Trade Policy and
Negotiations; co-chairman of the Global
Information Infrastructure Commission
Trustee of Southern Methodist University
Member of the executive board of SMU’s Edwin L. Cox School of
Business and the board of directors of the JASON Foundation for Education
Board member for the University of San Francisco’s Center for the Pacific Rim;
Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.;
Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research;
Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan Dallas;
and Baker Hughes Inc., a publicly owned energy company
Education
Graduated from the University of Texas;
holds honorary doctorate in management from the GMI Institute of Management and Engineering
Honored as Distinguished Alumnus by University of Texas
From the EDS WebSite Bio last update November 1997.
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