Primary Job Title Executive Vice President & Chief Information and Technology Officer Primary Organization 
SIRVA
Location Villa Park, Illinois, United States Regions Greater Chicago Area, Great Lakes, Midwestern US Gender Male
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John Kirk is SIRVA’s Executive Vice President and Chief Information and Technology Officer. Kirk joined SIRVA in September 2015. Kirk has been a leader of technology and IT over the last 15 years and before that he held executive positions on the business side in terms of sales, marketing, operations, procurement and supply chain.
Most recently,
Kirk was the CIO for the Vitamin Shoppe, a leading publicly traded retail and ecommerce business with $1.3B in sales and 736 locations. Kirk led the technology and IT during a 50% increase in store count and ecommerce revenue, scaling the business for quality, customer service and profitability. He was responsible for strategic direction and all daily operations for technology, applications, operations, store systems, technical infrastructure, telecommunications, and cybersecurity and ecommerce platforms.
Kirk led the IT team of 125 professionals and developed and implemented a multi-year IT strategic plan enabling the company to scale for growth. He created and implemented the application roadmap to upgrade and install leading new technologies. Under Kirk’s leadership, IT and technology increased speed to market by 30%, improved customer satisfaction significantly, increased uptime of IT systems to an impressive 99.995%, increased productivity of IT by 20% and established a leading ecommerce business.
Kirk holds a MBA from Seton Hall University where he graduated with honors and he also holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from La Salle University.
