Chris Kelly

Chris Kelly is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of North America Sales for Zebra Technologies – a global leader in tracking technology and solutions that generate actionable information and insight giving companies unprecedented visibility into their businesses by connecting data, assets and people – headquartered in Lincolnshire, Illinois. With over 25 years of experience in the mobile computing industry, Chris’s career has focused on helping large companies adopt mobile computing technology to accomplish business transformation. In his current role, he is responsible for sales as well as vertical market and channel growth initiatives across Zebra’s direct and indirect customers and partners in North America. Leading a team of industry experts, he works with team members across the organization to accelerate growth and strengthen our position in the market to empower those on the front line of business with a performance edge. He joined Zebra through the Motorola acquisition in October 2014, where he had been leading the transportation and logistics (T&L) vertical. In July 2015, he was named Vice President of Transportation & Logistics at Zebra and later assumed responsibility for the manufacturing vertical as well. In that role, he was responsible for sales, delivery and support of Zebra’s solutions and services to T&L and Manufacturing customers in North America. Prior to leading the T&L Vertical for Motorola, Chris held numerous roles supporting strategic accounts during his 20-year tenure at the company. He started as a Strategic Account Manager; in 2010, became Regional Sales Manager Strategic Accounts; and in 2012, took on the role of Director of Strategic Accounts for North America Enterprise. In addition to working for Motorola, Chris worked as a National Sales Manager for Motorola’s ARDIS subsidiary and also spent a number of years working for Katalyst Ventures as resident Sales Lead working with portfolio companies to improve their go-to-market success. Chris is a graduate of Vassar College having earned a B.A. in Economics. He resides in the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA, with his wife and three children.