Information Technology Veteran to Support Company's Growth in
Information Management
BOSTON, Oct 18, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Iron
Mountain Incorporated, (NYSE: IRM), the information management
company, has hired Tasos Tsolakis, the former chief information officer
for Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), to lead its information
technology organization. Tsolakis, 54, becomes Iron Mountain's executive
vice president and chief information officer (CIO) and will oversee the
company's use of technology to serve customers and grow as a global
information management leader. Tsolakis takes over for Bill Brown, who
moves into a new role as senior vice president, global compliance
process.
"We added Tasos for his sterling track record of leveraging technology
to accomplish business goals across a global enterprise," said Bob
Brennan, Iron Mountain's president and CEO. "We're thrilled to welcome
him to our team at this time in our company's history when our customers
want us to do more than just keep their information safe. Increasingly,
they want our help to better understand their information, find it
faster and use it more efficiently. Tasos will help us build and deploy
support systems to deliver on this need."
A 25-year IT veteran, Tsolakis had served as CIO at ACS, now a Xerox
Company, since 2007. There, he set IT strategy for all internal and
external solutions and lead a global team of IT professionals. Prior to
ACS, Tsolakis looked after customer-facing technology for Home Depot as
its vice president of direct to consumer solutions and IT shared
services. In this role, he supported the company's Web sites and
introduced technology for accepting customer orders and other key
initiatives. Earlier in his career, from 1998-2006, Tsolakis drove
product development for GE Information Services/GXS, and he held several
technology leadership positions at AT&T while there from 1982-1994.
"Iron Mountain understands the power of IT to serve as a strategic
business driver and not just a lights-on function," said Tsolakis. "I
look forward to building on the team's success and meeting the expanded
information management needs of our customers."
Tsolakis holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania; master's and
doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University; and a bachelor's degree in electrical
engineering from Wilkes University. He lives in Boston with his wife
Christl.
About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information management
services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and
inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The
company's solutions enable customers to protect and better use their
information--regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage--so
they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance
and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of
information assets, including business records, electronic files,
medical data, emails and more for organizations around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.com
or follow the company on Twitter @IronMountainInc
for more information.
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