“All governments of Europe are concerned about protecting their societies against wrongdoers and terrorists. As we know how to enable IT, so that citizens and companies can feel and be safe in the future, Unisys will be the right partner for Europe and Central Europe. Especially within the fields of biometrics, RFID and domestic security – three buzz words of Europe’s governments – are areas where Unisys stands as a thought leader. We will help enable solutions for governments to secure citizens and companies. Through global knowledge and experience, we are a trusted and experienced partner of the European government’s within creating domestic security.”

Bart Steukers, Managing Partner, Global Public Sector, Unisys Continental Europe

Unisys is a worldwide technology services and solutions company. Through experience and skills Unisys has earned an name as a trusted advisor for Governments around all of Europe. Our consultants apply Unisys expertise in consulting, systems integration, outsourcing, infrastructure, and server technology to help our clients achieve secure business operations. We build more secure organizations by creating visibility into clients’ business operations. Leveraging Unisys 3D Visible Enterprise, we make visible the impact of their decisions – ahead of investments, opportunities and risks.

Photos and bios of key staff in the region

Roberto Tavano: Roberto Tavano is currently a Partner with Unisys Corporation, acting as VP Justice & Public Safety Programmes, Continental Europe. He counts more than twenty years of experience in management consulting, with specific focus on the change of business models through the innovative use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). After a multi-annual experience as a high-energy physicist, he largely developed his professional history as independent entrepreneur, creating and developing over the years two consultancies in Italy and one in the UK, until he joined Ernst & Young Consultants as a Partner. In the wake of the acquisition by Cap Gemini, he took the role of VP eBusiness and Supply Chain for Italy and Southern Europe, and was a member of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young’s WW Leadership Team. The rich and motley professional experience stems particularly from the proposal of original business ideas able of leveraging and applying a suite of solutions to different areas of business, particularly cultivating subjects such as collaboration and integration of complex ecosystems in industries like manufacturing, banking, software, public administration, transportation and construction. He is an appreciated communicator, often invited as a speaker to national and international conferences and press events, as well as subject of thought leadership interviews by media in Italy (Il Corriere della Sera, Il Sole 24 Ore) and elsewhere (CNBC Financial Channel, etc.).

Christian Wernberg-Tougaard: Christian Wernberg-Tougaard is currently Director of Marketing and Communication, Global Public Sector, Unisys Continental Europe. He holds a master of Economics from the University of Aarhus. He has the responsibility for innovating the way the Public Sector Practices act towards Public Sector clients and has the responsibility for helping clients to think innovative and evaluate new technology as well as being the prime spokesperson in the Nordics. He is a specialist in Governments of the Nordic/Continental Europe with great insight in the challenges and solutions offered in this the most digitized areas in the World. He has been appointed member of the European IT-security agency, ENISA, in the working group on “Awareness Raising” and has been part of the “Net Safe Now” steering committee as well as the working group of “Anti SPAM” and participating in “The Danish Board of Technology”’s IT-vulnerability assessment of Denmark expert group. Recently he has been appointed member of the IT-security panel, which guides the Danish Minister of Technology on IT-security issues and well as being member of the WG on RFID development in Denmark under the Danish Board of Technology.

Mr. Wernberg-Tougaard has been Key Note Speaker at IDC’s eGovernment conference in Rome 2004 as well as at the Danish IT-professionals TCO/ROI network meeting. Currently he also holds a position in the Danish Open Source Venders Organisation (www.osl.dk) and has been expert member in the Danish evaluation of “Software at the Desktop” which examined guidelines for use of Open Source vs. traditional software, which he also has researched in. He will appear with a chapter in a book on Open Souce with the title: “How Governments should evaluate OSS vs. Traditional software”. He has authored an article on the business perspectives of ASP-solutions, as well as co-authored on the book “Safety and Security in Denmark”.

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