Chairman of the Board
Rona Fairhead was appointed chairman of the Interactive Data Board of Directors in September 2007 and has served on the Board since February 2007. She currently serves as a member of the Board's Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
Ms. Fairhead is chief executive officer of the Financial Times Group where she is responsible for overseeing the Financial Times, Pearson's international business newspapers and financial magazines, as well as its interests in Interactive Data, FTSE, owned jointly with the London Stock Exchange, and The Economist Group. Ms. Fairhead joined Pearson in October 2001 as deputy finance director, became chief financial officer in June 2002 and was appointed chief executive of the Financial Times Group in June 2006. She serves on the Pearson board and is also a member of the Pearson management committee. She was appointed a non-executive director of HSBC Holdings plc in 2004.
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Before joining Pearson, Ms. Fairhead was executive vice president, strategy and group financial control and a member of the Executive Board at ICI plc, the international specialty chemicals and paints company. Prior to her six years at ICI, she was a senior executive in the aerospace industry, working for Bombardier/Shorts Aerospace and British Aerospace. In her early career she worked for Bain & Co and Morgan Stanley. Ms. Fairhead has a law degree from Cambridge University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. |
