Stephen Perkins

Background

About Stephen Perkins

I’m a builder at my core. Designing and leading both early stage and large initiatives, I’ve played a major role in creating best-in-class capabilities that increase revenue, efficiency, and effectiveness, while reducing costs. These impacts have delivered true transformation, propelling the business model, technical and operational innovation, and driving systemic change in organizations to support a growth agenda. I’ve built my career at the nexus of technology and business growth. I’ve pioneered and directed global technology innovation, acceleration, and transformation initiatives across industries. As a change catalyst and strategic storyteller, I’ve identified trends and opportunities and created evangelized strategy that’s secured internal funding and external funding for multiple transformation initiatives. I’ve also spearheaded the execution and delivery of these strategies, working on the ground. I am a highly accomplished strategic leader, driving business technology and exceeding goals while solving critical challenges. I have been at the forefront of the offsite backup and data archiving industry and possibly the first to leverage the power of the internet for dial-up based online server backup as a service since 1998. In addition, I engage technology-based products to address the broad business needs, manufacturing needs, and operations of the full product life cycle. As a seasoned and savvy technology leader and business leader, I bridge the gap between technology and business verticals as a growth igniter. I have deep leadership, communication, technology, operational, and product experience, with keen skills and instincts in highly competitive fields. A connector at heart, I excel at identifying trends and opportunities and linking them to people, organizations, and products (both internal/external and local/global). I thrive working across functions to build relationships, lock on a common objective, and arrive at consensus that aligns diverse groups with a clear purpose and inspires unified action.