Michael Hirt

Michael Hirt is the current Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Columbia Sportswear. Michael has held this position since March 2016. Prior to joining Columbia Sportswear, Hirt spent 10 years at Oakley, Inc., where they served as Vice President of IT. In this role, Hirt was responsible for all of Oakley's IT needs. Prior to Oakley, Hirt spent one year as Visa's Vice President of Financial Systems, where they led the financial systems team for Visa USA. Hirt began their career at Arthur Andersen, where they spent seven years as a partner in the enterprise systems group, specializing in SAP and Oracle implementations.

Michael Hirt's educational career includes a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) in Accounting and Computer Science from Hofstra University.

A direct report to Michael Hirt is and Patricia Higgins - VP, E-Commerce. They are on a team with Tim Sheerin - SVP, Global Wholesale, Craig Zanon - SVP, Emerging Brands, and Matthieu Schegg - VP & GM, EMEA. Michael Hirt reports to Tim Boyle, President, CEO & Chairman.