Centrobe: "Business as Usual" After EDS Reorganization, McCashin Departure

Circulation Management, Nov, 1999

Centrobe executives say that parent company EDS's September announcement that it will reorganize into four centralized global business units, and the recent departure of Centrobe president/CEO Bob McCashin, will not materially affect the fulfillment bureau's operations.

Nick Cuccaro, who formerly had the title president, Centrobe Publications and Associations Division, will continue to head up fulfillment for that division as part of his role of overseeing Centrobe's overall fulfillment operations. His new title is director of fulfillment.

Cuccaro will now report to Mike Littell, who has been named general manager of Enterprise Customer Management Solutions. "The structural changes should have no effect on our publishing clients," says Cuccaro.

ECMS, which was previously part of EDS's E.Solutions (electronic business consulting) unit, is now part of the Business Process Management unit, which also includes claims processing and settlement processing solutions.

Littell reports to the new head of the BPM division, Kim McMann, who was formerly president of EDS's State Business and State Health Care units. Littell, who joined EDS in 1973, was most recently president of the U.S. Banking division of the Diversified Financial Services unit.

McCashin, who had served as Centrobe's president/CEO since mid-1997, left "to pursue other interests," according to the company.

Rich Rosy, who had been president of Centrobe's manufacturing and retail group, served as interim president for a few weeks between McCashin's departure and Littell's promotion, according to Centrobe. Rosy is now director, call centers, Americas.

EDS's new, centralized structure, created by Dick Brown, who became EDS chairman/CEO earlier this year, is designed to streamline operations and increase the corporation's focus on electronic business. EDS, which reported revenues of $16.9 billion in 1998, previously had a matrix structure with more than 40 separate business units.