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David Thomson
Chairman, Thomson Reuters
Chairman, The Woodbridge Company LimitedMr. Thomson is Chairman of Thomson Reuters. He is also a Chairman of Woodbridge, the Thomson family investment company, and Chairman of The Globe and Mail Inc., a Canadian media company. Mr. Thomson is an active private investor with a focus on real estate and serves on the boards of several private companies. Mr. Thomson has an MA from Cambridge University.
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W. Geoffrey Beattie
Deputy Chairman, Thomson Reuters
Mr. Beattie is Deputy Chairman of Thomson Reuters. He is also a director of General Electric Company, Maple Leaf Foods Inc. and Royal Bank of Canada. In addition to his public company board memberships, Mr. Beattie is a director of The Globe and Mail Inc., a Canadian media company. He is also a trustee of the University Health Network. Mr. Beattie has a law degree from the University of Western Ontario.
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James C. Smith
President and Chief Executive Officer
Prior to January 2012, Mr. Smith was Chief Operating Officer of Thomson Reuters from September 2011. He had been Chief Executive Officer of Thomson Reuters Professional division from April 2008. He previously served as Chief Operating Officer of The Thomson Corporation and as President and Chief Executive Officer of Thomson Learning’s Academic and Reference Group. Mr. Smith began his career as a journalist and joined Thomson Newspapers in 1987. He held several staff and operating positions, culminating in his role as head of operations for Thomson Newspapers in the U.S. With the sale of the newspaper group in 2000, he joined The Thomson Corporation in 2001 as Executive Vice President. Mr. Smith has a BA from Marshall University.
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Manvinder S. Banga
Operating Partner, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, LLC
Mr. Banga joined Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, LLC as an Operating Partner based in London in June 2010. Prior to that, he held a number of senior executive positions over his 33-year career with Unilever, including President, Food, Home & Personal Care of Unilever PLC; Business Group President of Unilever’s Home and Personal Care business in Asia and Chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan Unilever Ltd. Mr. Banga is a member of the Prime Minister of India’s Council on Trade & Industry. He is also a director of Maruti Suzuki Ltd. He is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, where he completed his Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering and the IIM Ahmedabad, where he obtained a postgraduate degree in Management.
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David W. Binet
President and Chief Executive Officer, The Woodbridge Company Limited
Mr. Binet is President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Woodbridge, the Thomson family investment company. Prior to January 2013, he held a number of senior positions at Woodbridge over the last 14 years, including Chief Operating Officer, and was Secretary to the Thomson Reuters board. Mr. Binet is director of The Globe and Mail Inc., a Canadian media company and of a number of other companies in which Woodbridge is invested. Mr. Binet is also Chairman of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Prior to joining Woodbridge in 1999, he was a partner in a major law firm. Mr. Binet has a law degree from McGill University, a BA from Queen’s University and a graduate degree in Journalism from Northwestern University.
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Mary Cirillo
Corporate Director
Ms. Cirillo is a corporate director. Ms. Cirillo was Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Opcenter, LLC, an Internet consulting firm, from 2000 to 2003. Prior to that, she was a senior banking executive at Bankers Trust and Citibank for more than 20 years. Ms. Cirillo is a member of the Advisory Board of Hudson Venture Partners, L.P., a venture capital firm, and serves on the boards of several cultural and educational organizations. She is also a director of Dealer Track Holdings Inc. and ACE Ltd. She has a BA from Hunter College.
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Steven A. Denning
Chairman, General Atlantic LLC
Mr. Denning is Chairman of General Atlantic LLC, a private equity investment firm that focuses exclusively on investing in growth companies globally. Mr. Denning has been with General Atlantic (or its predecessor) since 1980. He serves on the boards of several cultural and educational organizations. He has a BS from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.
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Lawton W. Fitt
Corporate Director
Ms. Fitt is a corporate director and Lead Independent Director of Thomson Reuters. She joined the board of Reuters in 2004. Ms. Fitt served as Secretary (Chief Executive Officer) of the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 2002 to March 2005. Prior to that, she was an investment banker with Goldman Sachs & Co., where she became a partner in 1994 and a managing director in 1996. She is a director of several not-for-profit organizations in addition to CIENA Corporation, The Carlyle Group and The Progressive Corporation. Ms. Fitt has a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and an MBA from the University of Virginia.
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Roger L. Martin
Dean, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Mr. Martin is Dean of the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, a post-secondary educational institution, a position he has held since 1998. Previously, Mr. Martin was a Director of Monitor Company, a global strategy consulting firm. Mr. Martin is Chair of the Ontario Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress. He also serves on the boards of several not-for-profit organizations. He is also a director of Research in Motion Ltd. He has an MBA from Harvard University.
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Sir Deryck Maughan
Senior Advisor, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR)
Sir Deryck Maughan has held a number of senior positions with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., a global asset management company, since joining the firm in 2005 including Head of the Financial Services Industry team within KKR’s Private Equity platform and Chairman of KKR Asia. He was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Citigroup International until 2004 and served as Vice Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange from 1996 to 2000. Sir Deryck joined the board of Reuters in 2005. He also serves on the boards of several charitable organizations, GlaxoSmithKline plc, and BlackRock Inc. Sir Deryck is a graduate of King’s College, University of London and the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.
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Ken Olisa, OBE
Founder and Chairman of Restoration Partners
Mr. Olisa is Founder and Chairman of Restoration Partners, a boutique technology merchant bank advising and investing in IT companies. He joined the board of Reuters in 2004. From 1992 to 2006, Mr. Olisa was Chair and CEO of Interregnum PLC, a technology merchant bank. Prior to that, he was a senior executive for over 20 years at Wang Labs and IBM. From 1995 to 2000, Mr. Olisa was a director of Open Text Corporation and of Eurasion Natural Resources Corporation from its London IPO until 2011. He serves on the boards of several U.K. not-for-profit organizations. He has an MA from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
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Vance K. Opperman
President and Chief Executive Officer, Key Investment, Inc.
Mr. Opperman is President and Chief Executive Officer of Key Investment, Inc., a private investment company involved in publishing and other activities. Previously, Mr. Opperman was President of West Publishing Company, an information provider of legal and business research that is now owned by Thomson Reuters. He serves on the boards of several educational and not-for-profit organizations. He is also a director of TCF Financial Corporation and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota. He has a law degree from the University of Minnesota and practiced law for many years.
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John M. Thompson
Corporate Director
Mr. Thompson served as non-executive Chairman of the Board of The Toronto-Dominion Bank, a Canadian financial institution, for eight years until January 1, 2011. Prior to that, he was Vice Chairman of the Board of IBM from 2000 until 2002. Mr. Thompson also held a number of senior management positions in his career at IBM including having oversight responsibility for the company's worldwide technology, manufacturing and business strategy. He also is a director of Royal Philips Electronics N.V. and The Toronto-Dominion Bank. He is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario with a degree in Engineering Science and completed executive management programs at the Richard Ivey School at the University of Western Ontario and the Kellogg Graduate School of Business at Northwestern University. Mr. Thompson was previously Chancellor of the University of Western Ontario.
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Peter J. Thomson
Chairman, The Woodbridge Company Limited
Mr. Thomson is a Chairman of Woodbridge, the Thomson family investment company. Mr. Thomson is an active private equity investor and serves on the boards of several private companies. He has a BA from the University of Western Ontario.
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Wulf von Schimmelmann
Corporate Director
Mr. von Schimmelmann is a corporate director. He joined the board of Thomson Reuters in July 2011. Mr. von Schimmelmann was Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Postbank AG from 1999 to June 2007, where he transformed the organization from a check processing division of Deutsche Post to one of Germany's leading retail banks. Since 2008, he has served as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Post DHL AG, an international leader in mail and logistics services. He also serves as a member of the Supervisory Board of Maxingvest AG and Allianz Deutschland AG and as a director of Accenture Ltd., as well as Western Union. Prior to his lengthy career in banking, he was a partner at McKinsey & Co., working in Switzerland, the U.S. and Germany. Mr. von Schimmelmann has a degree in economic sciences and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Zurich.