Sean O'Leary

Sean O’Leary is a recognized strategic leader in the Triangle, who has over 20 years’ experience in the Information Technology industry, working for both Fortune 500 companies and venture backed start-ups. O’Leary currently is the President & CEO of StrikeIron Inc., an industry leader in the Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) space providing innovative data quality and data communication tools to leading enterprises worldwide via their industry leading Cloud platform.

Prior to joining StrikeIron, Mr. O’Leary served as Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Business Development at TapRoot Systems, where he help launch several new products, including their award winning Mobile Hot Spot, which was picked up by Best Buy as a their private label solution. Mr. O’Leary also previously served as Vice President and General Manager at Good Technology, where he was credited with developing and implementing their carrier channel distribution strategy that helped grow that business from 10,000 to over 500,000 subscribers and facilitated its acquisition by Motorola in January 2007. Mr. O’Leary also held the position of Senior Director of Worldwide Sales at Cisco Systems, where he played a number of strategic roles, including leading a global sales organization of over 800 people, in thirteen countries responsible for driving over $400 million in annual sales.

Mr. O’Leary is a frequent guest lecturer at local universities, including the University of Carolina Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Graduate School of Business, NC State University and Elon University. In 2003, Mr. O’Leary received the Triangle Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 Leadership Award. He holds a BA in Economics from New England College and an MBA from the University of Southern New Hampshire.