Iron Mountain Appoints Deirdre Evens as Chief People Officer | Business Wire

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.    

“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”

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.