Mr. Evans is a Vice President and General Manager within the Office of the CTO at Unisys. One of Consulting Magazine’s “Top 25 Consultants”, and one of ComputerWorld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders, he presently leads Portfolio Innovation for the corporate-wide portfolio of service offerings and oversees global thought leadership with respect to the company’s focus on Disruptive Technologies – including Cloud Computing, Big Data / Smart Computing, Mobile Computing, Social Computing and CyberSecurity.
Mr. Evans has over twenty years of consulting experience in all aspects of business innovation and emerging technology practice leadership and solution delivery in a wide variety of industries. He is the author of several business-oriented books on emerging technology and IT strategy including titles from Financial Times Prentice Hall ("Business Innovation & Disruptive Technology: Harnessing the Power of Breakthrough Technology…for Competitive Advantage" and "Business Agility: Strategies for Gaining Competitive Advantage through Mobile Business Solutions"), Tech TV, Microsoft Press, and Powersoft Press.
As an industry luminary, he has shared his thought leadership in leading publications such as Fortune, Time Magazine, Financial Times, CIO Magazine, ComputerWorld, Optimize, Internet Week, RFID Journal, and Washington Technology, as well as broadcast media such as CNBC Squawk Box, History Channel, Discovery Channel and Business Talk Radio.
Prior to his strategy and innovation role, Mr. Evans ran the Enterprise Security practice at Unisys – a worldwide consulting and integration practice covering security of people, goods & assets, and information systems.
Prior to Unisys, Mr. Evans was Global Lead, Emerging Technology at BearingPoint, Inc. (formerly KPMG Consulting). In this role, he focused on the delivery of emerging technology strategies and solutions, including Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), wireless/mobility, web services, business process management, real-time infrastructure, and security, having strategic enterprise value to BearingPoint clients.
Prior to BearingPoint, Mr. Evans was the National Technical Director for E-Business at PricewaterhouseCoopers within their Global Software Solutions Center. He co-founded the National Internet Consulting Practice for Coopers & Lybrand in 1997.
Mr. Evans holds a B.Sc.(Hons) in Geophysical Sciences and an M.Sc. in Oceanography from Southampton University in England. He serves as a frequent advisor to the venture capital community and has served on numerous boards including the Dallas Museum of Art (Technical Advisory Board), TechAmerica, the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), and the Service Research & Innovation Initiative (SRII).
He is a guest author and blogger for Computerworld and writes about "Managing Innovation & Disruptive Technology".