Jim has been with Iron Mountain since April, 2020. He is the Chief Procurement Officer with global responsibility for strategic sourcing, procurement operations, the company’s travel and credit card programs, supplier diversity, supplier risk and supplier relationship management. Prior to Iron Mountain, Jim was the CPO at Nielsen where he built a global procurement team that drove over $80M in vendor savings, deployed a new global P2P system and increased spend with diverse vendors by over 30%. Before Nielsen, Jim spent 17 years with Thomson Reuters in various IT, Business Development and Strategic Technology Partnership leadership positions. Jim started his career serving as an Army Intelligence Officer with the 10th Mountain Division. His service included supporting Hurricane Andrew recovery efforts in Florida, Operation Restore Hope in Somalia and Operation Restore Democracy in Haiti. Jim has accepted the honor of becoming the Co-Executive Sponsor of the Veterans Employee Support Group at Iron Mountain. Jim holds a BA in Political Science and Postgraduate Certificate in Computer Science from Hofstra University, an MBA from Dowling College and is a graduate of the Disney Institute’s Quality Service training program. He has been married 30 years and he has 3 sons. His home base is Eastern Long Island and he enjoys hiking and coaching soccer, lacrosse and track & field. Jim has a passion for Supplier Diversity and looks forward to building a more inclusive supply chain