Michael H. Jordan
Chairman Emeritus
EDS

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Chairman emeritus Michael H. Jordan joined EDS in March 2003. He currently serves as a strategic adviser to EDS chairman, president, and CEO Ron Rittenmeyer and the company’s senior leadership team. From September through December 2007, Jordan served as EDS chairman of the board of directors. In this role, he led the EDS board of directors and was responsible for providing strategic counsel on a wide variety of issues, both strategic and operational.

From March 2003 to September 2007, Jordan served as EDS chairman and CEO. In his years at EDS, Jordan has led a dramatic financial and operational turnaround. During this period, the company nearly doubled the value of its contract signings and drove significant improvements in its cost structure and financial foundation, while continuing to invest in next-generation service offerings and capabilities.

Jordan is the retired chairman and chief executive officer of CBS Corporation (formerly Westinghouse Electric Corporation), which he led through one of the most comprehensive transformations of a major U.S. corporation. Before joining Westinghouse, Jordan was a partner with Clayton, Dubilier and Rice, one of the oldest and most respected private investment firms in the world. Before that, he spent 18 years with PepsiCo, Inc. During this time, he served in numerous senior executive positions, including CFO of PepsiCo, Inc., and president and CEO of PepsiCo WorldWide Foods, which includes Frito-Lay. From 1964 to 1974, he was a consultant and principal with McKinsey & Company.

Jordan is an angel investor as well as a member of several private equity firms. He currently serves as chairman of eOriginal Inc., an electronic commerce company that provides unique, authentic, and secure Electronic Original documents, a legal alternative to blue-ink signed original paper documents. Previously, he was a general partner of Global Asset Capital, LLC, a venture capital firm focused on making private equity investments in the telecommunications, Internet infrastructure, data networking, and information technology sectors. He was also a partner of Beta Capital Group, LLC, of Dallas, Texas. From 1999 to 2001, he served as chairman of Luminant Worldwide Corporation, an Internet services company.

In addition to his professional and investment roles, Jordan is former chairman of the National Foreign Trade Council; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; a trustee of The Brookings Institution; a member and former chairman of the U.S.-Japan Business Council; a member and former chairman of the United Negro College Fund; a member of The Business Council; a member of the board of trustees of the United States Council for International Business; a member of the International Advisory Board of BritishAmerican Business Inc.; and a former member of the Business Roundtable. He also serves on the boards of several smaller, privately held companies.

Jordan received his bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from Yale University and a master of science degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University. He subsequently served a four-year tour of duty with the U.S. Navy on the staff of Admiral Hyman Rickover.