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Zurich, Switzerland

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Responsible for two global businesses at Iron Mountain - Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Data Centers. Responsible for driving growth, including setting strategic direction, leading commercial efforts, and developing expansion opportunities.Growing ALM into one of the largest global managers of IT assets through the end of life. Building on Iron Mountain's long history of secure logistics and storage, we offer IT asset logistics and depot services (collection, redeployment, lease return), logical and physical data destruction, data center decommissioning, data center and end user device refurbishment and remarketing, and sustainability services inclusive of e-waste management and sustainability reporting.ALM platform development around the world through partner expansion, site openings, integration of ITRenew and acquisition Regency Technologies.Continued development and expansion of Iron Mountain's global Data Center platform.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Aggressively growing our market presense with enterprise, public sector, cloud providers and hyperscalersServing or building in North America (Boston, New Jersey, Northern Virginia, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Ohio, Chicago, Denver, Phoenix), Europe (London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Madrid), Asia (Singapore, Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai).

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Actively building the new Iron Mountain Data Center service line with direct responsibility for full P&L across sales, construction, product, operations and financeLeverage Iron Mountain’s strengths in chain-of-custody, asset tracking, compliance, security and service quality to deliver a highly differentiated solutionLead direct sales force and actively train and engage Iron Mountain’s larger sales organization to bring the Data Center solutions to all Iron Mountain customersManage design, construction, operation and customer experience of data center footprint across North America, Europe and AsiaDevelop site expansion strategy actively targeting largest data center markets in the world. Completed IO, EvoSwitch, FORTRUST and Credit Suisse transactions. Greenfield development in Virginia, Chicago, Frankfurt, Phoenix.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Direct report to three CEOs and member of eight-person Senior Executive Team with responsibilities for input into strategic direction, managing long-term planning, supporting growth- and operationally-oriented consulting projects, and managing the Office of the CEOConsistent experience and exposure to Board of Directors, attended all board meetings for three years (including time period with activist investors) often presenting and leading discussion on long-term business outlook and key strategic initiativesRan multi-year strategic planning process including core operations and M&A strategyDirectly managed the office of the CEO and executed Chief of Staff function including managing agendas for all Senior Executive Team meetings, managing budget for Executive office and Board of Directors, creating and maintaining the operating calendar for the entire enterprise, and helping manage ongoing communication and meetings with all senior leaders (VP+)Led divestiture of $200M Digital business unit which was completed in under 75 days from Board approval; included development of marketing materials, deal room, negotiation, HSR and deal closingCreated high-potential recruitment process to hire future leaders into the company which has resulted in seven people being promoted into different groups within three years

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Tasked, as direct report to the CFO, with creating first-ever strategic planning function at Iron Mountain with responsibility for creating a multi-year planning process and performing ad-hoc internal consultingInitiated business unit level long-term planning in conjunction with business unit presidents and financial teams to drive higher revenue and EBITDA growthLed Pricing Excellence initiative in North America and UK which resulted in $150M+ annual improvement to EBITDA through pricing standardizationWorked directly with head of international business unit to build a business plan and help launch a scanning and workflow automation business expected to drive $10-20M in new revenue annuallyCreated and led the Finance Leadership Development Program which initiated finance employee rotational assignments, mini learning modules, a mentor program, employee potential assessments, and an internship program

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Established the Portfolio Management Office (PMO) which had oversight of top corporate initiativesWorked directly with Senior Executive Team to allocate $40M and human capital to top projects annuallyManaged all routine project tracking and reporting to provide Executive Team insight into performance of programsEstablished new budgeting process to enable strategic expenditures (stratex) to be handled separately from routine expenditures

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Responsible for budgeting, tracking and managing returns of $350M+ annual global capital expenseIntegrated capital reporting into overall Iron Mountain operating processLed the creation of the real estate investment committee which had oversight for reviewing all real estate investments globally

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Created and maintained all long-term corporate models used for business planning and investor communicationLed financial modeling in support of investor and analyst communications as well as debt-focused treasury activitiesLed business and financial analysis to support over $200M of consideration for multiple domestic acquisitions in physical records management and cloud back-up in addition to entry acquisitions into Russia, Australia, and SE AsiaLed financial effort in the combination and restructuring of the North American Records Management and Data Protection businesses

Leawood, Ks, Us

Led Iron Mountain investment, as part of the scanning and workflow automation strategy, into C2FO (Pollenware) which creates a marketplace of accounts payable financing400% return on investment in three years

Us

Analyzed potential M&A targets and acquirers (both private and public) using discounted cash flow, accretion/dilution and public company and transaction comparables analysesParticipated in client interactions, including S-3 drafting, pitches and financial due diligence

Ab, Economics

Education record

Executive Education; Hbs Alumni Status Conferred 2011