DXC names first Chief Digital Information Officer for AI push

VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES — DXC Technology has appointed longtime executive Russell Jukes as its first Chief Digital Information Officer, a newly consolidated role designed to accelerate the company’s enterprise-scale artificial intelligence (AI) agenda and unify its digital transformation efforts. 

The announcement positions Jukes to lead the firm’s end-to-end digital and AI strategy, optimizing internal technology to bolster both client solutions and employee AI proficiency.

DXC unifies digital, data, and AI leadership under Jukes

The establishment of the Chief Digital Information Officer role as a position symbolizes a tactical consolidation of responsibilities, where digital, information, and AI transformation agendas were previously spread across the board. 

In this extended role, Jukes will directly align the teams that provide services, solutions, and software with DXC’s global client base. 

This change in structure can be traced to a larger industry trend in which digital leaders are taking a more direct role in AI investment and innovation. The appointment underscores the need for DXC to streamline its next-generation technology strategy. 

“Russell has been instrumental in leading DXC’s digital and technology transformation. He has modernized our core systems, empowered our teams with better tools, and strengthened our technology foundation to meet the needs of our customers,” said Raul Fernandez, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at DXC, highlighting Jukes’ contributions to the company.

By subordinating both digital and AI to a single command, DXC will also remove internal silos, thereby boosting innovation speed and the integration of offerings in the market.

This move is explicitly designed to drive what the company describes as “meaningful and measurable impact” for its clients.

Leveraging internal AI frameworks for market solutions

Central to Jukes’s mandate is advancing and applying DXC’s proprietary AI framework, Xponential, which is designed to address the complexities that hinder large-scale AI adoption in enterprise settings. 

Jukes played a key supporting role in creating this framework before his promotion, giving him direct insight into its deployment. 

His new authority allows him to leverage this internal proven AI framework directly to deliver scalable, confident transformations for DXC’s external customers, effectively turning internal innovation into a marketable service.

Furthermore, Jukes will spearhead DXC’s Human+ initiative, which focuses on introducing new collaborative and operational models to enhance how internal teams learn, collaborate, and build next-generation solutions. This internal focus on employee AI fluency is seen as a critical enabler for delivering superior client outcomes. 

Jukes’s background, which includes senior roles at HP and HPE leading modernization and digital operations programs, along with his sponsorship of DXC initiatives in cloud transformation and responsible AI adoption, provides a foundation for executing this dual internal-external strategy. 

As Jukes stated, his goal is to use this unified structure to “innovate faster, run smarter, and help our customers transform with confidence.”

“I look forward to building on the momentum of Xponential and supporting the next wave of AI-driven capabilities across DXC,” Jukes noted.

DXC Technology ranked #27 in the OA500 2025, an objective index of the world’s top 500 outsourcing companies.