BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Storage and information management company Iron Mountain® Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) today announced that Deirdre Evens has joined Iron Mountain as Chief People Officer.
Evens will oversee global human resources, leading operations and strategy to support the company’s growth through recruitment, talent development, and compensation and benefits. Evens will serve as a member of the company’s senior executive team and report directly to Iron Mountain’s President and CEO William L. Meaney.
“Deirdre is both a talented human resources leader as well as a well-rounded business executive, who has succeeded in a variety of commercial and operational roles,” said Meaney. “As someone who has led a business unit and had responsibility for sales and marketing organizations, Deirdre understands how critical culture and talent are to driving growth and innovation. We’re very excited she’s joined our team.”
Evens comes to Iron Mountain from environmental, energy, and industrial services company Clean Harbors (NYSE: CLH), where she served as the executive vice president of human resources since 2011. In this role, she oversaw recruitment, benefits and employee development for a global workforce of more than 13,000 employees. Evens joined Clean Harbors in 2007 as the company’s executive vice president of sales and marketing. Prior to Clean Harbors, she was senior vice president of member insight for BJ’s Wholesale, responsible for strategy, analytics, market research and segment marketing.
Evens also held several operational and executive leadership roles with Polaroid, beginning as a plant manager before becoming a director of manufacturing operations. Later, she became the vice president and general manager of Polaroid’s $600 million imaging division. In this role, she had P&L responsibility and owned worldwide marketing, strategy, business planning, product development and product management. Her final position at the company was senior vice president of worldwide marketing and strategy.
“I’m thrilled to join Iron Mountain,” said Evens. “Iron Mountain has a strong reputation for helping customers to succeed by securing what matters most to them. The team is passionate about this mission, and it’s that commitment, coupled with Iron Mountain’s opportunities to enter new markets and businesses, that have me most excited.”
Evens holds a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Cornell University.
About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM)
is a leading provider of storage and information management services.
The company’s real estate network of over 67 million square feet across
more than 1,000 facilities in 36 countries allows it to serve customers
with speed and accuracy. And its solutions for records
management, data
management, document
management, and secure
shredding help organizations to lower storage costs, comply with
regulations, recover from disaster, and better use their information for
business advantage. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain stores and protects
billions of information assets, including business documents, backup
tapes, electronic files and medical data. Visit www.ironmountain.com
for more information.
