Mike Lawrie is a globally recognized business and technology leader, strategist, and change-agent with proven success in transforming enterprises to create growth, new market opportunities, and value for stakeholders. Lawrie is the Founder and CEO of The Lawrie Group, a private company providing consulting services on value creation and enterprise transformation, and related investment management services.
Lawrie served as Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), the world’s leading, independent end-to-end IT services company serving more than 6,000 global enterprise clients in more than 70 countries. A $20-plus billion Fortune 500 company, DXC was formed in April 2017 through the merger of the Enterprise Services business of HPE and CSC, where he served as President and CEO from May 2012 to March 2017 and was appointed Chairman in December 2015.
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 Medical 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 digital powerhouse. Lawrie spearheaded more than 200 industry-leading alliances, with companies such as Amazon Web Services, AT&T, Dell Technologies, Google Cloud, HCL, HP, HPE, IBM, Micro Focus, Microsoft, Oracle, PwC, SAP, ServiceNow and VMware. Lawrie retired from DXC in Q4 2019.
Lawrie has also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP), formed by the May 2018 merger of DXC’s U.S. Public Sector Business with Vencore Holding Corporation and KeyPoint Government Solutions. He also served as the initial Chair of CSRA, Inc. for two quarters following its spinoff from CSC and prior to the merger of CSC with the Enterprise Services unit of Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Lawrie came to CSC from UK-based Misys plc, a leading global IT solutions provider to the financial services industry. He also served as the Executive Chairman of Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc. from October 2008 to August 2010. Prior to Misys, Lawrie was a partner with ValueAct Capital, a San Francisco-based private investment firm, and before that CEO of Siebel Systems Inc. Lawrie spent the first 27 years of his career with IBM, where he rose to Senior Vice President and Group Executive, responsible for sales and distribution of all IBM products and services worldwide.
Lawrie has a Bachelor of Arts from Ohio University, an MBA from Drexel University, and an Honorary Ph.D. from Shiv Nadar University.