John Connors, PARTNER
John Connors is a partner at Ignition Partners, LLC. He invests principally in business software and services. Prior to joining Ignition, John spent sixteen years at Microsoft Corporation in several strategic roles. From January 2000 to April 2005 he was senior vice president of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer. In this role John was responsible for managing the global Finance function as well as corporate services, procurement, real estate and the company’s Global Operations & Technology group.
John also held a variety of positions including vice president of the Worldwide Enterprise Group, where he was responsible for the sales, services and relationship strategy for large, medium-sized and small businesses. Before that, Connors served as vice president and Chief Information Officer (CIO). Before serving as CIO, he held a number of positions within and outside finance, including Corporate Controller, General Manager of worldwide financial operations, Director of business operations of Microsoft’s European headquarters in Paris, and Director of business operations of the Worldwide Sales and Support Strategy Group.
Prior to joining Microsoft, John held management or staff positions at PIP Printing Inc., SAFECO Corp. and Deloitte, Haskins and Sells.
John received his BA in accounting from the University of Montana. He also received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Montana.
John is a member of the Board of Directors of Nike, Jobster, FiREapps, BioPassword, SecondSpace, XenSource and Splunk corporations. In addition he serves on the Board of Trustees of the Nature Conservancy of Montana, the Tyee Board for the University of Washington Athletics, and the Board of Directors for the Washington Policy Center and the Bellevue, Washington Football Boosters.