INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADER AWARD
Chris Kearns is Senior Vice President for Enterprise Applications at Kyndryl. Kyndryl is the world’s largest provider of IT infrastructure services with thousands of enterprise customers in more than 60 countries. Chris and the Enterprise Applications teams are responsible for enterprise applications across the firm, spanning front office lead-to-quote processes, back office quote-to-cash operations, and corporate support functions. He is a champion for innovation and operational excellence with experience overseeing core platforms for financial services, customer relationship management, marketing, procurement and other corporate operations.
Prior to joining Kyndryl, Chris held executive leadership roles at Corning Incorporated, NBC Universal, the Vanguard Group, Leidos, and Lockheed Martin. Chris has over 25 years of industry experience in IT and IT services. In prior roles he was the global head of Workplace Services, the global head of data center engineering and was responsible for leading a $700M+ information technology business with 2,000+ employees serving U.S. Department of Defense customers. His expertise spans operations and cyber defense of critical national infrastructure, management of private datacenters and high-performance computing centers, migration and security of cloud computing, and mission and enterprise application management.
Chris holds a master’s degree in information science from Pennsylvania State University and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Scranton. He serves on the Industrial Advisory Board to the Engineering Department at the University of Scranton.
