John Hollier is a versatile business executive with a history of implementing and operating solutions across a broad spectrum of business functions. For the last 12 years, John has been consulting at the highest levels of organizations or acting as an executive team member. His strength and passion is helping businesses achieve their goals in an effective and cost-efficient manner. During his career, John has delivered bottom-line impact to companies ranging from start-ups to market leaders in industries such as business and professional services, life sciences, health insurance, transportation, dot-com and banking. His successes come from an ability to understand all sides of an issue, and identify connections and patterns, and then use that understanding to solve problems, innovate, leverage resources and build consensus. John’s early experiences in information technology provided him with a base of business knowledge across all corporate areas and taught him how to leverage the skills of individual players for the benefit of the team. Since 2005 John has been running his own executive management consulting company. In 2007, he founded J. Hollier Enterprises to focus his services on start-up and hyper-growth companies. His recent engagements have included: • Acting as the part-time CEO of a company commercializing an inventor’s patent. • Providing advisory services to a picture-frame manufacturer on the creation of a mass-market, antique reproduction frame product line, and on the creation of an information portal and marketplace for museum-quality frames. • Consulting to the CEO of a ‘collaborative analysis’ software start-up on the creation of business plans, implementing required processes, and managing an outsourced development partner. • Acting as the VP of professional services and customer support for a start-up software company, developing ‘financial services compliance management’ products. Additionally, he researched compliance regulation issues and identified products to help mitigate these issues, including creating product plans and prototypes in partnership with the CTO. Prior to starting his company, John was the CIO at PDI, Incorporated — a $375m life sciences sales and marketing service provider. During his four years at PDI, John built an organization that implemented solutions for sales intelligence reporting, customer relationship management, resource sourcing and allocation, and financial management. While consulting in the late 1990s, John led a number of client efforts, including helping Great Western Bank save $16.5m by renegotiating an outsourced services contract; saving CSX $75m in world-wide communications and outsourcing costs through the procurement of consolidated services; and implementing project offices, sales reporting systems and help desk services for dot-com startups.