Overview

Gender

female

Jill Stelfox is the Executive Chair and CEO of Panzura, the fabric that transforms cloud storage into a global file system, allowing enterprises to use the cloud as a high performance, globally available data center.

Prior to joining Panzura, Jill founded and acted as Co-CEO of marketing consulting firm EDGY, where she helped companies from McAfee to Adobe to USAA to transform business and technology processes. Before this, Jill literally changed the game of football stats as Vice-President and General Manager of Location Solutions at Zebra Technologies. At Zebra, she created the sports vertical that delivered player-tracking technology to capture the speed and acceleration of every player on every inch of the field. Jill’s background in tech started with creating three venture capital-backed enterprise software companies. She raised $50M in venture and successfully exited these companies returning more than $1B to investors and employees

As a technology leader Stelfox has managed to create intersections between industries that once may have been considered unthinkable and spotted opportunities hidden underneath established, legacy solutions. This includes a set of patents around how data is moved, shared, and computed across a cloud environment.

With more than 20 years of focused effort and creativity in the entrepreneurial tech space, Jill has lived – and overcome – all the struggles that growing businesses face. Whether it’s creating a new category of wireless technology to protect teachers in schools or driving international expansion for one of the world’s largest consulting companies, she refuses to accept mediocrity.

Jill received her Bachelor of Science in Accounting from California State University, Chico. She is a sitting board member of Women in Sports Tech and ROUTE Inc.