Bill Nuti

William (Bill) R. Nuti is an American businessman from New York. He joined the company after it spun out of AT&T.

Career While in college, Nuti worked for IBM, selling copiers. Following his graduation in 1986, Nuti accepted a full-time position with IBM, selling telephone systems for an entity IBM had recently acquired. In 1988, Nuti left IBM for a start-up company, Network Equipment Technology, which was based in San Jose, California. In 1990, he joined Netrix as a regional manager. One of the company's customers was Cisco, which hired Nuti in 1991. In 2001, he returned to Cisco's headquarters and became senior vice president responsible for both the company's Worldwide Service Provider business and the U.S. Theater Operations. In this dual role, he led Cisco's field operations, systems engineering, professional services, marketing and U.S. sales divisions.

In 2002, he left Cisco and joined Symbol Technologies as President and COO. He became CEO in 2003 and returned the company to profitability for the first time in five years, increasing revenue growth by 24% from 2002-2004. its compound annual growth rate over the eight years following the spinoff was less than 1 percent.

Nuti spent 2006-10 restructuring the company's entire supply chain. In January 2007, NCR announced a spinoff of Teradata, the company's data-warehousing business, which was completed on October 1, 2007. In 2009, NCR announced that its headquarters would move from Dayton, Ohio to Atlanta, Georgia. Nuti explained the decision in a 2012 interview: “The decision was good for the company long term, but we made it with a heavy heart.” Retalix in 2013, and Digital Insight in 2014.

In November 2015, NCR announced a strategic partnership with Blackstone, which NCR said would accelerate its “ongoing strategic transformation into an integrated software and services company.” The agreement called for affiliates of Blackstone to invest $820 million in NCR in the form of perpetual convertible preferred shares. NCR used the Blackstone investment to help fund a share repurchase through a self-tender offer for $1 billion of its common stock.

On March 22, 2018, Nuti announced he was stepping down from the position of NCR's CEO for health reasons.

Board memberships In June 2008, Nuti was appointed to Sprint Communications' Board of Directors, where he served until July 2013. In May 2014, he was elected to the Board of Directors at Coach, Inc., where he serves on the human resources committee.

In 2014, Nuti became a member of the Georgia Institute of Technology advisory board, where he serves on finance, compensation, and public responsibility committees. He is a trustee at Long Island University. In the past, he served on the board of Opus360 Corp.

Writing and speaking In 2014, Nuti was the primary speaker at the Dubai International Project Management Forum (DIPMF). Entrepreneur, and Mobile Payments Today.

Honors In June 2005, American Business Awards called Nuti the “Best Turnaround Executive.” In 2015, he was named “Most Admired CEO” by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. In 2014, he was a recipient of the Atlantic Legal Foundation's Annual Award. In 2017, he received the Lifetime Global Innovation Award from the ATM Industry Association.

Personal life Nuti was raised in a two-bedroom tenement in the Bronx. To earn money, Nuti started delivering newspapers when he was nine years old.

He lives in New York City with his wife, Michele, and their one son.