Sean Mackirdy
AVP, SLED Sales, Elastic
Sean has over 25 years of experience in the IT Industry. His career began in Software Development and Unix Systems Administration, moved to High Performance Computing with Silicon Graphics, and then transitioned to Sales and Sales Leadership with Cisco. In his nearly 18 years at Cisco, Sean worked in the US Public Sector for 12 years and in Country Leadership outside of the United States in Cisco’s Emerging Markets Group for 6 years.
In the years since leaving Cisco, Sean was the VP of Digital Transformation for a SLED-focused Partner in the Rocky Mountain Region (Advanced Network Management); Sales Director for the US Air Force and COCOMs at Splunk; and, most recently, Sales Leader for the US DoD at Cohesity. He is passionate about connecting customers with the right technology portfolio to solve problems in the spaces of Predictive Analytics, AI and Machine Learning, Data Fusion, and more.