Gillian Parrillo, Compliance Officer
Gillian Parrillo has been a full-time resident of Lake County for four years, but has owned her home and visited here since 2003. She is a retired Group President of a Fortune 1000 technology company with a strong background in sales and marketing. A native of England, Gillian moved to the United States at the age of 18.
“In 2003 on a day trip from our home in Sacramento to check out Lake County for the first time, we came upon a cinder block cottage in its original 1960s condition on the banks of Clear Lake. We fell in love with it and over the next year or so, we turned it into a cherished weekend venue. Ten years later, my husband, Pierre Cutler, and I decided to move to Lake County fulltime and we have become immersed in local issues ever since,” Gillian comments.
She has served on numerous non-profit boards and taken part in formal non-profit board trainings. She was President of the Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy, and the founder of the Sacramento Executive, a non-profit organization that worked to integrate the great talent moving from the Bay Area and elsewhere into local organizations – something that has some merit for re-creation here in Lake County – ensuring that retired executives moving to Lake County be recruited to assist in local initiatives.
A native of England, Gillian moved to the United States at the age of 18.
Though she has lived and worked in many cities including London, Paris, and Dallas, she appreciates the beauty of Lake County, the ever-changing lake, the amazing sunsets, the wild animals “up front and personal,” and the huge array of birds. And, an added bonus, “the friendly, smart and welcoming people I meet every day. This place has adopted us and we have embraced it right back.”
“In 2003 on a day trip from our home in Sacramento to check out Lake County for the first time, we came upon a cinder block cottage in its original 1960s condition on the banks of Clear Lake. We fell in love with it and over the next year or so, we turned it into a cherished weekend venue. Ten years later, my husband, Pierre Cutler, and I decided to move to Lake County fulltime and we have become immersed in local issues ever since,” Gillian comments.
She has served on numerous non-profit boards and taken part in formal non-profit board trainings. She was President of the Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy, and the founder of the Sacramento Executive, a non-profit organization that worked to integrate the great talent moving from the Bay Area and elsewhere into local organizations – something that has some merit for re-creation here in Lake County – ensuring that retired executives moving to Lake County be recruited to assist in local initiatives.
A native of England, Gillian moved to the United States at the age of 18.
Though she has lived and worked in many cities including London, Paris, and Dallas, she appreciates the beauty of Lake County, the ever-changing lake, the amazing sunsets, the wild animals “up front and personal,” and the huge array of birds. And, an added bonus, “the friendly, smart and welcoming people I meet every day. This place has adopted us and we have embraced it right back.”
