Robert Kirkwood

Leveraging my global experience and people leadership skills to foster a high-performance team in order to exceed company objectives and maintain a highly collaborative trusted working environment

United States

About

Experience

  • Regional Sales Director at Gordian
    Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

    Responsible for a high performing sales team delivering Job Order Contracting solutions to the Central US Territory.

  • Honeywell (Full-time · 3 yrs 2 mos)
    • Senior Director of Sales- Americas
      Jun 2023 - May 2025 · 2 yrs

      Responsible for all the Americas Cyber sales & people leadership. Continual YOY growth of 15+% in the cyber portfolio of offerings. Top 5% of Voice of Employee/People Leader Index rating for resource management. Cyber Americas- Voted Comeback business unit of the year the 1st 6 months I took the role in turning around team motivation, creating a better teaming culture, and exceeding our financial targets.

    • Cyber Security Sales Executive
      Apr 2022 - May 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Helping clients secure their IT/IOT/IIOT environments by mitigating and reducing risk through Future Shaping Technology.

  • Senior Sales Executive - Global Accounts at IBM
    Jan 2013 - Apr 2022 · 9 yrs 4 mos

    Leading clients to understand their security risk exposure and how IBM can close the gap with security solutions & services in order to reduce risk and protect their assets. I focus on the complete process of initial relationship building, qualification, Proof of value, negotiations, implementation, and most importantly client satisfaction.

  • Director IBM Software & Services Sales at Champion Solutions Group
    2010 - 2013 · 3 yrs

    IBM Security Brand Sales & Services Implementation Executive. My focus was to work with clients on the awareness of business risk and thus how to reduce that security risk thru people, process, and technology.

  • Senior Partner/ VP Sales & Operations at Dynamic Systems Solutions, Inc
    1990 - 2010 · 20 yrs

    Founder & Partner of of a global software & security consulting practice. Our organization assisted clients with ERP project implementation & security process controls. This took me all over the world working with customers to help reduce operational costs and provide improved risk mitigation controls to the business.