Kirk Pedersen is an outcome driven leader with 20 years of IT experience, primarily at IBM locally within Research Triangle Park, NC. He has been a driving force for innovation and technology within IBM and its clients to help break barriers and push the boundaries of the modern IT landscape. Kirk is a culture advocate and an avid speaker at industry conferences. He has most recently been leading and accelerating IBM's Go-To-Market transformation via his Customer Success & Architecture leadership. He represented IBM and RTP as a participate in the Corporate Services Corps, an elite leadership program for social corporate responsibility, in Nairobi, Kenya. He also oversees IBM's Executive Briefing Center within the RTP campus. We highlight him for his dedication as a current and future IT leader to IBM and the entire RTP area of North Carolina.