Vice President of Information Technology at Carbonite Inc., a leading provider of cloud and hybrid backup solutions to small businesses and individuals. Irwin provides leadership for global IT strategy, innovation, applications architecture and compliance. Irwin is leading the evolution of Carbonite’s business applications architecture to meet the needs of Carbonite’s global partners and small business customers and evolving product and selling strategies. He is a successful technology executive with significant experience achieving business process effectiveness and innovation through implementation of global ERP, CRM and HR systems in both cloud based SaaS and traditional on-premise models Prior to Carbonite Irwin was Chief Information Officer for Aspen Technology, a leader in process optimization software to the energy and chemicals industry. Irwin led Aspen’s global IT and operations and real estate functions through an operational turnaround, with system pricing and product packaging as a key market differentiator and driver of the company’s successful turnaround. Prior to Aspen, he facilitated Akamai Technologies', meteoric growth, by providing the vision and leadership to drive business efficiencies, scale and superior customer service. In both roles, Irwin provided leadership for global IT strategy, applications architecture, operations, governance and security. He also held senior IT leadership roles at Marcam Solutions, Viewlogic Systems and The Faxon Company.