Technology >> CEO Interviews >> January 29, 2001
JACK N. HAYDEN is President and CEO of Technology Solutions Company. He
joined TSC in April, 1992 as a Senior Vice President. He then served as
interim CFO for the company during late 1992 and early 1993 before
founding TSC's highly successful Enterprise Applications practice in
1994. He later became Group President, responsible for the company's
Enterprise Operations and Network Computing (EONC) business group,
before taking his current position. Prior to joining TSC, he was a Vice
President at Douglas Aircraft Company, a $9.5 billion revenue unit of
McDonnell Douglas Corporation, the nation's second largest commercial
aircraft manufacturer and largest defense contractor. Mr. Hayden served
as Vice President in several business units at Douglas Aircraft,
including Financial Management, C-17 Operations, and MD-80 Operations.
He was responsible for cost control, capacity and resource planning and
participated in the development of initiatives to reduce overhead. As
Vice President of Operations, he was responsible for the startup of the
C-17 transport aircraft program for the Military Airlift Command that
employed 9,000 personnel with an annual budget of $2 billion. He was
also one of seven Vice Presidents selected by John McDonnell, CEO, to
spearhead the reorganization effort of Douglas Aircraft Company, whereby
the entire management staff was restructured under the Senior Vice
Presidents. Mr. Hayden received his MS in Business Management from
Pepperdine University and his BS in Finance from California State
University in Long Beach. In addition, he graduated from the Executive
Graduate Program at the University of California in Irvine. Profile
Mr. Hayden: In 1988, consultants from Arthur Young founded Technology
Solutions Company (TSC) (NASDAQ:TSCC) based on
