Edward Bicks

Edward Bicks is senior vice president of Emerging Business and Chief Strategy Officer for Iron Mountain, responsible for identifying and driving growth and value creation initiatives on a global basis. In addition to those strategic initiatives, he also heads up the Emerging Business group responsible for identifying, prioritizing, and building fundamentally new businesses with potential for material top line contribution. Prior to joining Iron Mountain, Bicks served as senior vice president of Corporate Strategy and Change Management at Forrester Research where he architected and drove the end-to-end restructuring of the company and its products to focus on critical client segments. In addition, he led Forrester’s corporate development and financial planning and development functions. He also served as a partner and strategy consultant at Monitor Group, focused on the intersection of new product development, marketing, and finance in the technology and life sciences spaces. Bicks holds a Bachelor of Arts with highest honors in Economics from Williams College and a Masters of Business Administration from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is an avid offshore sailor and serves on the Board of Directors of Courageous Sailing, a Boston-based non-profit that uses sailing and marine science programs to inspire learning, personal growth and leadership for inner city youth.