James Lillie was the CEO of Jarden Corporation. He became the CEO in June 2011 and maintained that role until the company was sold to Newell Brands in April, 2015. Lillie and his partner's Martin E. Franklin and Ian G.H. Ashken sold Jarden for $20.5 Billion dollars. Over the 15 year existence of Jarden it yielded a 5400%+ return for its investors making it the top performing consumer stock on the New York Stock Exchange during that period of time. Lillie is Vice Chairman and a partner at Mariposa Capital a private family office based in Miami Beach, Florida. Lillie sits on the Board of Directors of NYSE listed Tiffany & Co as well as Nomad Foods.At Nomad Foods Lillie is the head of the Audit Committee. Lillie is a founder and board member of LSE listed J2 Acquisition Holdings. J2 is a Special Purpose Acquisition Company. J2 is believed to be the largest SPAC in existence having raised over $1.2 Billion from investors in late 2017. Lillie also sits on the Board of Directors of Royal Oak Enterprises a private investment asset of Mariposa Capital. Lillie also sat on the board of the U.S./China business council until 2017 and is well regarded as a thoughtful and experienced international business executive. Lillie has been a frequent guest and guest host on CNBC and Bloomberg TV. Fortune Magazine named Lillie as one of the top 50 CEOs in 2012. Lillie is well regarded as a global corporate executive. He is known for a detailed focus on building strategic business plans and is well regarded as thoughtful, hard charging executive that has significant experience in building global, flexible, dynamic and adaptive business teams. He is known for fostering team work while ensuring business units create significant shareholder value. He is also known for creating a creative cultural environment within the businesses he has led.
After college, Lillie worked in the human-resources departments of Sun Electric and was a labor negotiator and HR generalist at the CECO corporation. Lillie worked, from 1990 until 1999, in various senior level management positions in Human Resources, Operations and Finance 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 scholarship dollars initially available for students at the Madison campus."The Lillie family has established similar scholarship programs in the name of their children at the University of New Hampshire, Northeastern University and the University of Denver.
Family life
He is married to Lisa Sheffield-Lillie and has three adult children
