Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG has ended its search for a new chief executive of its American business by poaching Unisys Corp’s chief financial officer Edward Blechschmidt. Blechschmidt has been at Unisys since the Burroughs days and now assumes the role of president and chief executive of SNI Inc’s Pyramid Technology Inc, as well as head of operations in North and South America. John Chen, currently in charge at Pyramid will remain as chairman, but gets to spend more time in his role as head of SNI’s Open Enterprise Computing unit, encompassing all its server businesses (CI No 2,846). Former Pyramid boss Dick Lussier retired in April but remains on the board of both SNI and Pyramid (CI No 2,841). Unisys, meantime, begins the search for a replacement.
