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John Morris

President & Chief Executive Officer, director at Ocient. Also an executive officer at UncommonX.

ExecutiveDirectorPublic companyRoles at 2 startups
Updated Nov 10, 2026·Latest SEC filing Jun 18, 2026·Suggest an edit

About John Morris

John Morris is a president & chief executive officer, director at Ocient.

Form D filings also name John Morris as an executive officer at UncommonX.

John Morris reports to the SEC as an officer of 1 public company: Juniper Networks (JNPR).

John Morris first appears on SEC filings in 2008.

Experience

This experience comes from John Morris's profile and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name John Morris in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.

Ocient Inc. Current
President & Chief Executive Officer, director
2024 – Present · Chicago, IL
Ocient sells data analytics and AI software to enterprises handling large datasets.
EeroQ Quantum Hardware Current
Board Observer
2024 – Present
Leelanau Books Current
Business Owner
2017 – Present
UncommonX Inc.
Chief Executive Officer
2020 – 2022 · Chicago, IL
simMachines
Independent Board Director
2019 – 2021
Fugue, Inc.
Independent Board Director
2018 – 2021
5thColumn
Chief Executive Officer
2020
InfiniteIO
Independent Board Director
2017 – 2020
Cleversafe
President and CEO
2013 – 2017
IBM
General Manager, IBM Cloud Object Storage
1982 – 2017
Juniper Networks Inc.
EVP Sales
EVP Strategic Alliances (2008 – 2013)
2008 – 2013 · Public company (JNPR)
Pay By Touch
President and COO
2005 – 2007

Key Colleagues at Startups

The people John Morris works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.

Ocient Inc. · Form D, Jun 18, 2026
HM
Henry Marshall
Chief Financial Officer
MM
Michael Marchant
Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary
MS
JD
James Dugan
Director
SG
S. Christopher Gladwin
Founder & Executive Chairman
MT
Mark Terbeek
Director
UncommonX Inc. · Form D, Nov 10, 2021
RV
RH
CF
Chad Freese
Executive officer
CF
Chad Freese
Director
RJ
Robert Joy
Executive officer

Sources

  1. SECOcient Inc. Form D, filed Jun 18, 2026
  2. SECUncommonX Inc. Form D, filed Nov 10, 2021
  3. SECForms 3, 4 and 5 filed by John Morris (SEC filer 1440159)