Mike Koehler Biography
- Senior Vice President, Infrastructure Technology Outsourcing & Business Process Outsourcing
Mike Koehler is senior vice president of Infrastructure Technology Outsourcing (ITO) & Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) for EDS, an HP company. He reports directly to President and Chief Executive Officer Ron Rittenmeyer.
Koehler most recently served as executive vice president of Global ITO Services at EDS, which comprises Regional Operations (Americas, Asia Pacific and EMEA), Service Delivery Operations, U.S. Government Solutions and the Navy Marine Corps Intranet account.
Previously, he was senior vice president of EMEA Operations, responsible for the end-to-end delivery to all EDS customers across the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, which includes service, contractual and financial performance, and sales.
From 2004 to 2007, Koehler served as enterprise client executive (ECE) for EDS' Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) account. NMCI, the world's largest federal government information technology (IT) contract, is an enterprisewide managed service that ultimately will provide the U.S. Department of the Navy and Marine Corps secure and universal access to voice, video and data information exchange for more than 360,000 desktops at over 300 locations across the United States and sites in Cuba, Japan and Puerto Rico.
As NMCI's ECE, Koehler was responsible for the overall customer experience and all day-to-day activities of this account.
Koehler brings extensive knowledge and experience to his current leadership role. Previously, he served as managing partner of Feld Ventures, a Feld Partners LLC firm formed in June 2001. He had been with The Feld Group since 1994, most recently as chief operating officer of the organization.
Koehler directed the Feld Ventures' intellectual and financial investments in emerging technology companies to bring new innovative services, software and hardware to the enterprise market. Feld Ventures worked closely with The Feld Group, the venture capital community and technology leaders to champion improved technology solutions.
During his tenure at The Feld Group, Koehler's assignments included chief technology architect, director and vice president for large-scale IT reengineering engagements at Westinghouse/CBS, Delta Air Lines and most recently at AmeriServe Food Distribution, Inc. While at AmeriServe, Koehler served as vice president, Operations and Technology, and managed all aspects of technology design and implementation, and day-to-day operations. He led a group that designed and implemented a companywide enterprise resource planning system, as well as a comprehensive set of systems management tools to ensure successful ongoing operations.
While serving as the vice president of Technology at Delta, Koehler oversaw the development of a standardized enterprisewide systems architecture, which supported the complete renewal of the airline's entire application portfolio and increased service levels to business end users. As part of the Delta Technology team that won a Smithsonian Award for Technologic Excellence, he reduced the IT budget by more than 30 percent annually. Koehler has also developed detailed architecture, large-scale computing complexes, connectivity, and communications design and implementation for a variety of customers while working with IBM's Consulting Practice.
Mike Koehler received his bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from Texas Tech University.
Last update August 2008