Kim McMahon

“Kim has incredible depth and experience in open source, collaborative technology, and HPC. Her breadth and capabilities in marketing and keen interest in fostering successful relationships has benefited open source organizations and numerous companies as they seek visibility and opportunity. I look forward to the chance of working with Kim again!”

“We brought in McMahon Consulting as our social media strategist back in 2017. It was a six-month project, and it gave us greater results that we had expected: we had lots of engagements and new followers on all our platforms - Twitter, FB and LinkedIn. Kim quickly understood our challenges and created a structured plan, and helped execute it on our behalf for those six months. In fact we still actively use the guidelines and tips that we had picked up from working together with Kim two years ago. If any organization is struggling to create a strategy for their social media engagement or needs someone to manage their social media engagement, Kim is the right person for the job! She is very professional, and extremely easy to work with.”

“I contracted McMahon Consulting to help overhaul our partner marketing, communications, and enablement. Kim's firm was both creative and efficient in delivering a comprehensive partner program outline and implementing sections of the program according to our company's specifications. Through McMahon's efforts we updated our partner portal,partner web site, partner newsletter, and partner co-marketing programs. As an added bonus, Kim knows the HPC / Supercomputing industry inside and out.”

“I have worked with Kim for 6 months and she has turned Women in HPC into an organisation that is recognised on the international stage. Kim has excellent attention to detail, a fantastic knowledge of how to work with organisations and raise the profile of companies and initiatives. Her insights and personality also make her a pleasure to work with on a daily basis.”

“It’s rare that you come across standout marketing talent like Kim. Ridiculously personable, very detailed, super efficient and highly creative are the terms that come to mind when I think about Kim. I hired Kim and her team to design and build our marketing plan and messaging, and she’s completed this quickly and professionally. I was particularly impressed by her ability to handle even the toughest members of our team and keep the project on task. Her writing and editing skills on a technical conference submittal was not only completed on time – it was ultimately selected for presentation. I highly recommend her for your next marketing project.”

“I had the opportunity to work with Kim who was managing the WW OEM Marketing for Dell PowerVault storage products. Kim is has a very good understanding of solution-selling and suggesting excellent GTM strategy. Very result oriented with a sharp analysis on ROI for marketing programs. I really enjoyed Kim's working style and her very responsive communication style.”

“My experience of Kim was of an insightful, energetic, and driven professional. Her constant attention to program and product drove our goals and delved every avenue to market success. I would recommend her without hesitation, she can quickly become a key player when given the opportunity.”

“Worked with Kim for several years on the Dell OEM account. Her work in managing difficult situations within a large corporate structure and making the necessary contacts to obtain meetings and get the work done are second to none. Kim exhibits a high attention to detail, strong work ethic, all with a hard working, pleasant demeanor.”

“Kim worked with our team to develop and execute in the EMEA channel. She built a relationship with our team members and was an extension of our marketing efforts to further awareness and sales of the product in the region. She brings a strong knowledge of marketing, messaging, programs, and through her leadership brought resources together to drive business with positive results.”

“Love, love, love her! She is one of the most determined individuals I've ever met and truly someone you want on your team. She's a marketing professional with a sales background - - the perfect balance to lead and drive sales strategy... Highly recommend her.”

“Kim has an aggressive style that balances drive for results and customer experience. She has managed Global Marketing plans for the Americas, EMEA, and APJ applying best practices from regions while optimizing the differences that make each Geo unique.”

“I worked with Kim for two years. Her professional marketing skill and hardwork attitude gave me a deep impression. Kim has great cross-functions and teamwork communication skill with global team and partner. She always proactively think of the good idea and advice for product and solution GTM plan. Kim has outstanding channel experience to develop and drive channel business. Kim is one of the best markeitng expert whom I worked with.”

“Kim surprises me. I've worked with many partner managers who accomplish their tasks with a bulldozer or who sit around passively, favoring relationships over accomplishment. Kim consistently hits the sweet spot between those extremes, getting things done while building a great network within Dell. It's really unusual, and the key to effectiveness in my book.”

“Kim McMahon is an outstanding marketing professional who consistently thinks of new and innovative ways develop and drive programs to communicate to the channel. She has great interpersonal skills and knows how to build consensus within a cross-department team environment.”

“It was a pleasure working with you as part of the core team on the very successful "no tax increase" initiative! Your ability to listen to the many voices and value each idea is just one example of your professionalism. Although we did not use all ideas, you helped to create a very positive atmosphere where the team felt safe and free to express options knowing that the best ones would help move the team toward success. Thank you for your tireless efforts and for keeping us focused when it would have been extremely easy to get side tracked. In my 20 year professional career of managing numerous teams and projects, this was one of the best and most obviously successful efforts with which I have had the privilege to work. Thank you for your leadership and passion!”

“Kim is one of the most enthusiastic, dynamic and hardworking people that I have had the pleasure of working with. She did an outstanding job as Product Marketing Manager for Visualization and was involved in every detail of the messaging and launch of SGI viz products. She took a lead role in producing the strategic plan, writing collateral, web messaging and demand generation. Kim would be an excellent addition to any team.”

“I had the pleasure of working with Kim at SGI as she served in various roles; sales and marketing. Kim is very detailed and task oriented, and is a very hard worker. Given objectives and problems, she can quickly get to solutions and results. I enjoyed working with her.”

“Kim is one of the most talented professionals I have had the pleasure to have worked with. We worked together on several projects at SGI and I could always count on her to see a task through to completion. Kim took time out of her very busy schedule to mentor me when first joining SGI and made it possible for me to come up to speed quickly when no one else seemed to have time. I would highly recommend Kim in any Sales, Marketing or technical capacity. On a personal level Kim was always a joy to work with and has an amazing personality is always upbeat and is truly a professional.”

“I have worked many projects with Kim McMahon during her time with SGI. Kim is a delight to work with. She is a skilled marketing professional, with huge energy and determination to get multiple large projects done on time. Kim is always flexible to improve the output of projects and is a good team player as well as leader. I hope Kim and I work together again in the future.”

“Kim worked for me as Product Marketing for two of our Business Units – Professional Services and Visualization. I brought her into the role and asked her to do some pretty extraordinary things. Over a one year period she defined the strategy for communicating and marketing these two business units and then executed on this strategy by launching two product lines, producing full internal and external collateral for 12 different products, delivering numerous training sessions, comprehensive electronic marketing campaigns, and worldwide events to educate and drive demand for the products. Her drive and professionalism as well as bringing people together to meet organizational goals were the keys to her success."”

“Kim brought her strong organizational skills to our group and helped us turn our solution concepts into products. She was able to create and pull together all the marketing and sales materials and programs we needed while at the same time servings as a product manager with many of our suppliers. Kim was great to work with and I would welcome the opportunity to work with her again.”

“Kim is a sales and marketing dynamo. From the day she joined my team as a professional services sales rep, she raised the bar on best practices. She leveraged her extensive marketing background to deliver clear, compelling value propositions to customers and drove $6 million in sales during her tenure. Her innovative use of breakfast seminars moved SGI from a product company to a solutions company in the eyes of key customers. Her work was leveraged by the entire sales team to bring us all to the next level.”

“Kim is a pleasure to work with. A great team player, conscientious and always follows through. Kim would be a valuable asset to any company and it's customers.”

“Kim is a great colleague to work with and basically gets things done fast and efficiently. She will thrive in positions were she can directly interact with other people and has an impact on everything she touches. I recommend her strongly for any marketing, sales or product management position.”

“Kim is one of those people who can get things done. She has great ideas and the business experience to effect change that can impact an organizations bottom line. She needs no direction and can motivate others. She follows through and is a pleasure to work with.”

“Kim McMahon’s team from Cray collaborated with my team at ADIC on a unique installation of a Cray X1E, StorNext File System and Dual Robot Scalar 10K for Korea Meteorological Administration. Her coordination of a multi-national team led to a highly successful installation. At ADIC, Kim and I worked together on the Xsan File System. Kim’s organizational capabilities, inter-departmental communication skills and product knowledge enabled us to seamlessly accomplish program goals. In my opinion, Kim McMahon is a schedule driven, highly motivated professional – one whom anyone would want on their team.”

“Kim effectively led a strategic team at Cray working on an aggressive program schedule and limited resources. She demonstrated extraordinary leadership, project management, and communications skills. I would whole-heartedly recommend Kim for senior management positions where planning, organization and communications are essential.”

“Kim became my manager at SGI at a very difficult time when the company was undergoing many changes. Her management skills, people skils as well as her buisiness skills were great and really helped me during some tough transition times. I only wish we could have worked together longer.”

“Kim is an outstanding professional with the skills and effectiveness to be successful, not only in Sales, but as a terrific leader.”

“I worked with Kim when she was managing the Cluster Product Line for Cray. She was a very effective leader and successfully worked with the internal engineering and manufacturing teams as well as the sales teams in North America, APAC, and EMEA to promote, sell, and deliver the product. I would welcome the chance to work with Kim again.”

“Kim is one of those people who you want to have on your team. She brings insights from a sales, product management and product marketing perspectives which make her an extermely valuable asset to any organization. She's done outstanding work here at our company and I'm happy to have the chance to work with her.”

“Kim was one of the most professional individuals I have had the pleasure to work with. She combined an unwavering work ethic with a deep and thorough knowledge of the industry and our clients. During our time together, Kim became one of the leaders in the consulting / solutions space a SGI while making outstanding headway in consulting sales for the organization.”

“On Cray's cluster project Kim was in charge of the business side and I - the technical side. She is a talented manager with excellent organizational skills; she was able to learn new technologies quickly and deal with the complex and ever changing landscape of compute clusters well. Kim is a strong advocate for customer needs and did a great job in making sure customers were taken care of.”