Name James Lillie | ||
Delegating decisions to your people's hands
James Lillie is the CEO of Jarden Corporation. He became the CEO in June 2011.
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Background
Lillie was born in Camden, New Jersey and lived in Pittsburgh; Madison, Wisconsin; Nashville; and Spain as a child since his father was an Oscar Mayer executive. As a teen, he lived in Valencia, Spain when his father was president of Oscar Mayer Europe and finished his senior year of high school there, even after his parents moved to Chicago. He returned to the US after high school and graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1983 with a degree in communications and labor relations.
Career
After college, Lillie worked in the human-resources departments of Sun Electric. Lillie worked, from 1990 until 1999, in various senior level management positions with World Color, Inc. From 1999 to 2000, he was the Executive Vice President of Operations at Walter Industries, Inc. From 2000 to 2003, he was the Executive Vice President of Operations at Moore Corporation, Limited. Lillie joined Jarden Corp. in August 2003 as the COO and then became the President in January 2004. He served in these roles at Jarden until June 13, 2011 when he became the CEO.
Charitable work
Lillie and his wife, Lisa Sheffield-Lillie established a Great People Scholarship at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2012. As Lillie explained, "By partnering with the University of Wisconsin we are making $50,000 of scholarship dollars initially available for students at the Madison campus."
Family life
He is married to Lisa Sheffield-Lillie.