SolidFire Leadership

J. J. (Jack) Hillyard is the former Vice President of BMO Bank of Montreal, Newfoundland and Labrador. During his 37-year career with the financial institution, Mr. Hillyard was a leader in achieving corporate results through corporate planning, strategic development, financial analysis, financial management, budgeting and forecasting, operational management and leadership development. Mr. Hillyard is a graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland (B.Comm) in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, and in 2002 earned his MBA in financial management from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Active in his community, Mr. Hillyard has served as a Director and Chairman of the Governance Committee of the Federal Government of Canada’s - Canada Development Investment Corporation (CDEV) from 2009-2015, a member of the Provincial Advisory Council on the Economy, a member of the City of Corner Brook Economic Development Committee, a Vice-Chairman of the Western Memorial Hospital Foundation, a Chairman of the Faculty of Business Advisory Board for Memorial University of Newfoundland, a member of the Newfoundland Ocean Industries Association, and on the St. John’s Board of Trade.

James Whitemore is a Chief Marketing Officer at SAVVIS INC and Chief Marketing Officer at SolidFire Inc. He has worked as VP/Chief Mktg Ofcr:Storage Group at Sun Microsystems and Chief Marketing Officer at Smoothstone and Logista. James attended Newcastle Upon Tyne.

John is an experienced technology finance and operations executive, with significant domestic and international experience at both public and ventured backed companies. He has lead securities offerings, raised venture funding and has been on both sides of multiple M&A transactions. John is presently the CFO of SolidFire who's high performance primary storage systems are designed to address the unique challenges of hosting mission-critical applications in a cloud setting. Prior to joining SolidFire, John was CFO at Datalogix, the leader at connecting digital media and offline purchasing data; CFO at LeftHand Networks, a pioneer in the IP SAN market (sold to HP for $360m); EVP, Finance and Operations and Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Directors for internationally based FrontRange Solutions (sold to a private equity firm for $200m); CFO for daly.commerce, Inc.; CFO for InteliData Technologies Corp.; and CFO for eFunds Corporation (formerly known as Deluxe Data Systems). John began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers after graduation from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is a CPA.



John also has served on the Board of Directors' for two publically traded companies. He was a member of the FrontRange Solutions Board of Directors' from 2001-2005. John was also a member of the Simtek Corporation (NASDAQ: STMK) Board of Directors from 2006 to 2008 where he has chaired the Compensation and Audit Committees. Simtek was acquired by Cypress Semiconductor (CY)).

Specialties: Finance and Operations - technology growth companies; financing - both public and private; CFO of public companies; have been on both sides of many M&A transactions; Board of Directors; CPA