Amir Kazmi Email Address

Chief Executive Officer

WestRock is an American corrugated packaging company that provides differentiated paper and packaging solutions.

Passionate data driven technology leader recognized for IT transformation, product management, product strategy and engineering. Have led enterprise products from idea to profitable startup stage: raised venture, hired teams, prioritized market fit needs, and captured initial customers. Led CIO IT transformation across $12B 50K employee division. National recognition for innovative products: Most Promising Asian American Engineer of the Year award (1 of 3 national awardees). Proven ability to unlock insights from complex data sets. Led predictive portfolio analytics for Lockheed Martin's largest $14B division (hardware platforms: submarines, missiles, navigation) and $9B division (software services) to identify leading performance indicators for all products in portfolios. Resulted in multi million dollar revenue capture. Product Examples: + Global Instability Forecasting Product: Product predicts global instability with high accuracy. If you knew a country is likely to have a civil war, rebellion etc how would you optimize your supply chain, financial exposure, investments, enterprise risk. Alpha test with major financial institutions. + Portfolio Analytics: Quantitative performance insights for complex product mix portfolios. + Social Ideas Crowdsourcing Product: Crowdsource technical ideas for new features and / or products. I saw a need, raised corporate venture funds, led team, and deployed product across +50K enterprise users. Resulted in $20M revenue within 12mo. + Network Sensing / Auto Replication: Auto sense existing network to auto replicate (including cloud) Incubate pre-alpha technologies, develop monetization approaches and validate alpha products via rapid customer pilots (Fortune 500 and early stage). One of the projects published in the Economist: (4/22/12) - http://www.economist.com/node/21553006 Training: Graduate of the Executive Development Growth (EDGE) program at Lockheed Martin and Engineering Leadership Development Program (ELDP)