John Pearce

John is a proven executive with more than 25 years of demonstrated success leading fast-growing technology companies as CFO and CEO with a unique blend of hands-on financial and operational leadership to drive success from initial strategy development all the way through tactical execution.

Most recently John was instrumental in the early revenue stage of Actifio, a startup building a new category with a revolutionary way to manage data backup, by helping to refine the pricing, packaging and business model for both enterprise license and SaaS delivery. Prior to that, John led Demandware (now a Salesforce company) as President and CEO through stages of high growth. He joined Demandware from AppIQ where he was CFO; AppIQ was acquired by Hewlett-Packard. He co-founded SilverStream Software and held roles of CFO, Vice President of International Operations and Senior Vice President of WorldWide Sales. Prior to SilverStream, he co-founded Watermark Software and served as its CFO and Vice President of International Business until the company was acquired by FileNet Corporation.

John holds a Bachelor of Business degree from Curtin University in Perth Australia.