Hilliard C. Terry, III, was appointed to the Board in January 2010. Most recently he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Textainer Group Holdings Limited (NYSE: TGH), an intermodal marine container management and leasing company. Before joining Textainer, he was Vice President and Treasurer of Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A), which he joined in 1999, prior to the company’s initial public offering and spinoff from Hewlett-Packard Company (“HP”). Mr. Terry held positions in investor relations and/or investment banking with Kenetech Corporation, VeriFone, Inc. and Goldman Sachs & Co.
Qualifications and Experience
Leadership: Senior leadership and business management experience as a senior executive of small-cap specialty finance company and finance executive of a large-cap technology company.
Marketing: Extensive investor communications and marketing experience as the Head of Investor Relations and primary spokesperson to the investment community for Agilent Technologies, Inc. and Global Marketing Manager for VeriFone, Inc., an HP subsidiary.
Finance: Mr. Terry has 11 years of financial management experience. In his previous role as a public-company CFO, he oversaw the accounting, treasury, credit and collections, internal audit and risk management functions of Textainer. Previously he was responsible for Agilent’s global treasury organization which included corporate cash management, corporate finance, customer financing, foreign exchange, pension assets and risk management. He was also a member of the company’s Benefits Committee, which has fiduciary oversight for Agilent’s employee benefit and retirement programs. He oversaw investments of a multi-billion-dollar global corporate cash portfolio and defined benefit (pension) assets for the company.
Governance: Current Chair of Umpqua’s Finance and Capital Committee and serves on the Enterprise Risk and Credit, Executive and Nominating and Governance Committees.
Civic: Former Board Member, Oakland Museum of California (member of the Executive and Nominating and Governance Committees).