Ingram Micro Promotes Kirk Robinson to Senior Vice President, Commercial Markets and Global Accounts, North America
January 22 2013 - 4:45PM
Marketwired
Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) today announced the immediate
promotion of Kirk Robinson to senior vice president, commercial
markets and global accounts, North America.
In this expanded leadership role, Robinson maintains
responsibility for Ingram Micro's U.S. commercial markets business
and gains ownership of the distributor's global accounts as well as
executive oversight of additional strategic key business units for
North America. He continues to report to Paul Bay, senior executive
vice president and president, Ingram Micro North America, and
manages the business leaders responsible for the distributor's
small-to-midsize business (SMB), public sector and strategic VAR
business units, along with several top-performing systems product
categories and vendor relationships.
"Kirk is a demonstrated and passionate sales leader who inspires
our associates and channel partners to achieve success and exceed
expectations," says Bay. "Under Kirk's leadership, our commercial
markets business, as well as our global accounts and relationships
with strategic vendor partners and customers, are well positioned
for growth and continued prosperity."
Throughout his 20-year career with Ingram Micro, Robinson has
made a notable impact on the success of Ingram Micro's U.S. sales
teams and was responsible for leading key initiatives including the
launch of the distributor's proprietary Business Intelligence
Center in 2009, which has since grown into one of the company's
most valuable service differentiators. Under his leadership, the
commercial markets division and its SMB business unit have reached
record growth rates and enabled hundreds of new channel
partners.
"Year-over-year, Ingram Micro earns its title as the IT
channel's most strategic and valuable distributor. I am eager to
work side-by-side with my team and our channel partners to break
new territory and exceed our shared goals," says Robinson.
Robinson joined Ingram Micro in 1993 as a sales representative
and worked his way up to sales director. In 2003, he moved into the
marketing department as senior director, channel programs and in
2004 he was promoted to customer and solutions marketing vice
president. In September 2006, Robinson was named vice president of
North America channel marketing. Then, in May 2010, he was
appointed vice president of VAR sales, market development and
business intelligence. Shortly thereafter, Robinson became the vice
president of Ingram Micro's U.S. commercial markets business.
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About Ingram Micro Inc. Ingram Micro is
the world's largest wholesale technology distributor and a global
leader in IT supply-chain, mobile device lifecycle services and
logistics solutions. As a vital link in the technology value chain,
Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for
vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced
logistics and mobile solutions, technical support, financial
services and product aggregation and distribution. The company is
the only global broad-based IT distributor, serving 145 countries
on six continents with the world's most comprehensive portfolio of
IT products and services. Visit www.ingrammicro.com.
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