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Gillian Parrillo

Entrepreneurial Exit

By Mark Larson

Gillian Parrillo, who tried to enrich the local executive talent pool among Sacramento-area technology startups, has left for Dallas.
    Her husband, Pierre Cuttler, landed a job with defense contractor Rockwell Collins in Dallas, and Parrillo, the former Sterling Software executive and local tech-networker extraordinaire, followed.
    “It’s a big loss for the local marketplace,” says Scott Steward, a Folsom-based sales and marketing executive who met and worked with Parrillo after moving here from the Bay Area in 2000. He and many others saw her as a strong local catalyst in developing the quality and number of local tech companies. “Without Gillian being here, the odds of the local tech market getting better are much riskier than they were with her here.”
    Craig Vachon, CEO of Varatouch, the El Dorado Hills control-device company acquired in February by Campbell, Calif.-based Atrua Technologies Inc., agrees. Parrillo served on the Varatouch board, and Vachon remembers her always coming to meetings with a “to-do” list.
    “She wasn’t there to pad her resume,” he says. “She was there to help. I don’t see anybody else making that kind of effort to serve the interests of Sacramento as its own market. She’s fairly unique.”
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