Jeff Kirkham

Jeff Kirkham serves as our Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer. Mr. Kirkham started with Savage in 2013 taking on several finance and operations roles including VP & Unit Leader, Oil & Gas Transloading. In June 2017, he joined what is now our Enterprise Leadership Team as leader of our People Group, and currently leads many of our shared services teams including Talent Acquisition, People Solutions, People Development, Benefits, Compensation, Procurement, Equipment, and Reliability.

Mr. Kirkham joined Savage from United Airlines where his most recent position was Director of Corporate Real Estate playing a key role integrating operations in the merger with Continental Airlines. Prior to that, he was at Citigroup and Merrill Lynch.

Mr. Kirkham holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Utah and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University.