On March 24, 2014, Lynn Blodgett announced that he is retiring from Xerox, effective December 31, 2014. Blodgett was appointed to president of Xerox Services in January 2012. Prior to this appointment, he was president and chief executive officer of Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., A Xerox Company. He served as the leader of ACS – Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. – since November 2006. He was appointed a corporate executive vice president of Xerox when the company acquired ACS in February 2010. Prior to his appointment of president and CEO, he was executive vice president and chief operating officer. In this position, he was responsible for the company's broad-based business process outsourcing and information technology operations and solutions delivered to commercial and government markets. Blodgett is a pioneer in the BPO market. In 1985, he and his brother co-founded Unibase, a data entry company acquired by ACS in 1996. The acquisition expanded ACS' capabilities in the relatively new BPO services arena. ACS created an entire service segment dedicated to delivering superior BPO solutions, and today this business unit is core to ACS' complete BPO service offerings. ACS has consistently grown and now delivers comprehensive BPO and IT solutions to all major industries and supports client operations in 100 countries. Blodgett attended Brigham Young University and the Utah Technical College.