Finance Monthly CFO Awards 2015 Winners Edition

FINANCE MONTHLY CFO AWARDS 2015 www.finance-monthly.com 70 Jim Burns Winner EVP & CFO of Silver Spring Networks Jim is an accomplished global executive with strong skills in P&L management and scaling businesses for accelerated growth while driving efficient operations “ 555 Broadway St., Redwood City, CA 94063 Website: www.silverspringnet.com USA FIRM PROFILE Silver Spring Networks (NYSE:SSNI) is a leading networking platform and solutions provider for the world’s largest smart energy and smart city networks. Silver Spring’s pioneering IPv6 networking platform, with over 21.5 million Silver Spring enabled devices delivered, is connecting critical infrastructure for the world’s leading utilities and most iconic cities. Silver Spring’s innovative solutions enable utilities and cities to gain operational efficiencies, improve reliability, empower consumers to monitor and manage energy consumption, and improve livability and expand economic opportunity. Silver Spring Networks’ customers include major utilities around the globe such as Baltimore Gas & Electric, CitiPower & Powercor, Commonwealth Edison, CPS Energy, Florida Power & Light, Jemena Electricity Networks Limited, Pacific Gas & Electric, Pepco Holdings, Progress Energy, and Singapore Power, among others. Silver Spring’s platform is also deployed for some of the world’s most iconic cities such as Copenhagen, Paris, Miami. To learn more, please visit www.silverspringnet.com . As Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Jim is responsible for Finance, Manufacturing, Corporate Development, and IT. Silver Spring is experiencing solid global growth and operating leverage and Jim has played an active role in its recent acquisitions of software companies StreetLight.Vision and Detectent. Jim is an accomplished global executive with strong skills in P&L management and scaling businesses for accelerated growth while driving efficient operations. Prior to joining Silver Spring, Jim worked at Hewlett-Packard for over 20 years, holding a number of senior executive roles in various hardware, software, and services businesses. His most recent roles at HP include SVP and COO of Enterprise Services, CFO of HP’s Enterprise Business, VP of Investor Relations, and VP and General Manager of PC Services and Accessories. Prior to HP, Jim worked as a CPA at Ernst & Young. He received a BS degree in Accounting from Santa Clara University and remains active with his alma mater, serving on the boards of the Leavey School of Business and the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education. Jim has a passion for designing innovative business models that boost growth, margins and customer satisfaction, and building high-performing teams. ABOUT JIM BURNS “