Bill Acheson

Chief Business Officer Pomeroy

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Bill Acheson is Chief Business Officer at Pomeroy, the IT solutions and managed services provider that designs, deploys and runs the end-user technology estates of large enterprises across North America and Western Europe. His remit is broader than the revenue job he held before it: strategy, growth and operational execution, together with mergers and acquisitions and the integration work that follows them. That last piece is not theoretical at Pomeroy, which closed its acquisition of the Ontario-based Soroc Technology in December 2024 and now fields a combined workforce of more than 2,500 people serving over 60,000 client locations. Acheson came to the company after roughly eight years running a billion-dollar services business at Diebold Nixdorf and more than a decade at Unisys.

Career Highlights

• Listed on Pomeroy’s own leadership page as Chief Business Officer, on an executive team headed by CEO Tom Signorello.
• Holds mergers, acquisitions and post-acquisition integration in his remit alongside strategy, growth and operational execution.
• Previously Pomeroy’s Chief Revenue Officer, leading the sales organisation across services, products and staffing, a title he still held in January 2026.
• Welcomed Shawn Kitzmiller as Pomeroy’s President of U.S. Sales in January 2026, part of the company’s push into managed services and its Smart Services platform.
• Spent roughly eight years as Vice President and General Manager at Diebold Nixdorf, running a services P&L in excess of one billion dollars covering services, products and software, with a sales organisation spanning the Americas and Eurasia.
• Spent more than ten years at Unisys as a Managing Director, and earlier held innovation, strategy and consulting leadership roles at Microsoft.
• Completed the MIT Sloan Executive Certificate, a non-degree executive education programme built from short courses including work on visual management for competitive advantage.

Professional Journey

Acheson’s career has been spent on the commercial side of very large technology services organisations, the kind where the product is a contract to keep tens of thousands of endpoints and locations working. He began in innovation, strategy and consulting leadership at Microsoft, then spent more than a decade at Unisys as a Managing Director.

He moved to Diebold Nixdorf as Vice President and General Manager, where over roughly eight years he ran a services business with more than a billion dollars of revenue, carrying a P&L that spanned services, products and software and a sales team covering the Americas and Eurasia. It was during this period, as he has described publicly, that he worked through the MIT Sloan Executive Certificate — a sequence of short executive courses rather than a degree — taking classes online during the pandemic and in person afterwards, and taking the view that the value lay in applying the material rather than in the certificate itself.

At Pomeroy he first took the Chief Revenue Officer seat, leading a sales organisation delivering across services, products and staffing. In January 2026 he was still in that role, publicly welcoming the industry veteran Shawn Kitzmiller as President of U.S. Sales to scale Pomeroy’s managed services and its Smart Services platform.

By the time of this review his title had changed to Chief Business Officer and no Chief Revenue Officer appears on Pomeroy’s roster, with the scope widened from revenue alone to strategy, growth and operational execution plus M&A and integration. The timing fits the company’s trajectory: Pomeroy has itself been reshaped repeatedly — taken private from Nasdaq by Platinum Equity, later owned by Getronics, then separated and relaunched as Pomeroy Technologies LLC — and it completed the Soroc Technology acquisition in December 2024, with Soroc now led inside Pomeroy by its own president.

Education

New York University, Stern School of Business

M.B.A., Finance and Marketing

New York University

B.S., Economics