Join us as Bob Irwin talks about his experience in strategic leadership, technology consulting, and leading Sterling Commerce to become a major player in the enterprise software market.

The Sander Flaum Leadership Speaker Series is the capstone of our Leadership & Professional Development (LPD) program in which high profile executives speak about their journey to leadership, their leadership style, lessons learned, and provide advice to the students as they develop their own leadership style.

Audience: 1st year full-time MBA students (Required to attend 1 of the 2 Sander Flaum Leadership Speakers) & Working Professional MBA students

Speaker Bio

As President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Sterling Commerce, Bob Irwin is responsible for driving company's vision, growth, and profitability. He is providing strategic leadership in articulating the company vision; transforming the company’s software delivery efforts; building strategic partnerships; and leveraging the company’s parent company, AT&T, and key customer constituencies to help the company become a major player in the enterprise software market.

Prior to taking the post as CEO, Irwin served as the company’s top sales executive and a key member of its executive team since joining the company in 2002. In this role as senior vice president, Americas’ Sales, Irwin was responsible for strategic leadership of the Sterling Commerce Americas’ sales team, where he helped transform the company’s sales organization.

Irwin has more than 21 years of experience through work at IBM, several technology consulting practices, and as an information technology (IT) executive. AAfter IBM, he built three successful technology consulting practices in the areas of software development, network engineering and business management.

Irwin received his Bachelor of Science degree from Ohio State University in 1982.