• FACTSET RESH SYS INC Key Executives

  • Total Compensation: $ 1.19 M
    Mr. Hadley, age 45, was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FactSet on September 5, 2000. Mr. Hadley joined FactSet in 1985 as a Consultant. From 1986 to 1989, Mr. Hadley was our Vice President, Sales. From 1989 to 2000, Mr. Hadley was Senior Vice President and Director of Sales and Marketing with FactSet. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Hadley was employed by Cargill Corporation. Mr. Hadley received a B.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Iowa and has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Institute. Mr. Hadley has served on the Board since September 2000. His current Board term expires in concurrence with the Annual Meeting of Stockholders for fiscal 2009. In addition, Mr. Hadley currently serves as a member of the board of advisors of Kum & Go.
    Total Compensation: $ 1.19 M
    Mr. DiChristina, age 45, joined FactSet in 1986 as a Software Engineer and held the position of Director of Software Engineering from 1990 to 1999. Prior to joining FactSet, Mr. DiChristina was a Software Engineer at Morgan Stanley & Co. Mr. DiChristina received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. DiChristina has served on the Board since March 2000. His current Board term expires in concurrence with the Annual Meeting of Stockholders for fiscal 2008.
    Total Compensation: $ 953,504.00
    Mr. Walsh, age 41, joined the Company in 1996 as Vice President, Planning and Control within the Company's Finance group. Mr. Walsh held the position of Vice President, Director of Finance from 1999 until 2001. From late 2001 to February 28, 2005, Mr. Walsh occupied the position of Vice President, Regional Sales Manager of the U.S. Southeast Region. On March 1, 2005 he assumed the position of Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Prior to joining FactSet, Mr. Walsh held several positions at Arthur Anderson & Co. Mr. Walsh received a B.S. in Accounting from Fairfield University. He is a CPA licensed in the state of New York, has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Institute.
    Total Compensation: $ 953,863.00
    Mr. Frankenfield, age 42, joined the Company in 1989 within the Consulting Services Group. From 1990 to 1994, Mr. Frankenfield held the position of Vice President, Sales with the Company. From 1995 to 2000 Mr. Frankenfield was Director of Investment Banking Sales with the Company. From 2000 until 2005, Mr. Frankenfield was Director of Sales and Marketing with FactSet. During September 2005, Mr. Frankenfield was named to his current position of Director of Investment Management Services. Mr. Frankenfield received a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Institute.
    Townsend Thomas - Senior VP
    Total Compensation: $ —
    Mr. Thomas, age 43, joined the Company in 1985 as a Software Engineer and held the position of Director of Systems Engineering from 1990 to 1999. From 1999 until 2005, when he assumed his current role, Mr. Thomas was the Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Thomas received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
    Kieran M. Kennedy - Senior VP
    Total Compensation: $ 778,105.00
    Mr. Kennedy, age 42, joined the Company in 1990 within the Consulting Services Group. From 1993 to 1997, Mr. Kennedy held the position of Sales and Consulting Manager for the West Coast. Mr. Kennedy was Director of Consulting from 1997 until he assumed his current position as Director of Investment Banking and Brokerage Services in 2002. Prior to joining FactSet, Mr. Kennedy held a Currency Trading position at Goldman Sachs & Co. Mr. Kennedy received a B.A. in Economics from Syracuse University.
    Total Compensation: $ —
    Mr. Laird, age 62, serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Laird Squared LLC, an investment banking company that he formed in January 1999, exclusively to serve the database information services industry. From 1989 to 1999, Mr. Laird was a Managing Director of Veronis, Suhler & Associates, a leading specialty merchant bank that serves the media and information industries. From 1982 to 1989, he was an institutional equity salesman and a senior securities analyst of database information services for Hambrecht & Quist. From 1975 to 1982, Mr. Laird was an institutional equity salesman and investment strategist for PaineWebber Mitchell Hutchins. Mr. Laird has also served as a director of The Advisory Board Company and Valassis Communications. Mr. Laird is the Chairman of the Compensation Committee and has served on the Board since 1993. Effective for fiscal 2008, Mr. Joseph R. Zimmel will replace Mr. Laird as a member of the Audit Committee. His current Board term expires in concurrence with the Annual Meeting of Stockholders for fiscal 2007. Mr. Laird is nominated for a three-year term, which would expire in concurrence with the Annual Meeting of Stockholders for fiscal 2010.
    Total Compensation: $ —
    Mr. McGonigle, age 44, serves as a director and non-Executive Chairman of the Board of The Corporate Executive Board Company ("CEB"). CEB specializes in providing to corporations best practices research and analysis focusing on corporate strategy, operations and general management issues. Effective January 1, 2007, Mr. McGonigle became the non-Executive Chairman of the Board. From July 1, 2005 until December 31, 2006, Mr. McGonigle served as the Company's Executive Chairman of the Board. From July 1998 until July 2005, Mr. McGonigle served as CEB's Chief Executive Officer. From the spin-off in October 1997 until July 1998, Mr. McGonigle was CEB's General Manager, and from 1995 until the spin-off, he was the General Manager of the corporate division of The Advisory Board Company with responsibility for managing the business assumed in the spin-off. From 1990 to 1995, Mr. McGonigle was a consultant in the Financial Institutions Group at McKinsey & Company, an independent consulting firm. Mr. McGonigle received a B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Mr. McGonigle has served on the Board since May 2002 and is the Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and is a member of the Compensation Committee. On September 19, 2005, Mr. McGonigle was named the Lead Independent Director. His current Board term expires in concurrence with the Annual Meeting of Stockholders for fiscal 2007. Mr. McGonigle is nominated for a three-year term, which would expire in concurrence with the Annual Meeting of Stockholders for fiscal 2010.
    Charles J. Snyder - Founder/Vice Chairman/Director
    Total Compensation: $ —
    Mr. Snyder, age 65, a co-founder of FactSet in 1978, retired as President and Chief Technology Officer of the Company on August 31, 1999. At that time he became Vice Chairman of the Board and agreed to continue as a consultant for three years to FactSet's engineering and technology groups. In conjunction with FactSet's announcement of Howard Wille's retirement as Chief Executive Officer of FactSet effective May 22, 2000, Mr. Snyder was named our interim Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Snyder acted as interim Chief Executive Officer of FactSet until September 5, 2000, at which time Philip A. Hadley was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. From 1964 to 1977, Mr. Snyder worked for Faulkner, Dawkins & Sullivan, Inc., eventually becoming Director of Computer Research, a position he retained with Shearson Hayden Stone, Inc. after its acquisition of Faulkner, Dawkins & Sullivan, Inc. in 1977. Mr. Snyder has been a Director of FactSet since its formation in 1978 and is currently a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. His current Board term expires in concurrence with the Annual Meeting of Stockholders for fiscal 2007. Mr. Snyder is nominated for a three-year term, which would expire in concurrence with the Annual Meeting of Stockholders for fiscal 2010.
    Total Compensation: $ —
    Mr. Billeadeau, age 46, joined Fifth Third Asset Management ("Fifth Third") in March of 2003 with the combination of Paladin Investment Associates, LLC ("Paladin") with Fifth Third. He is the Director of small-cap and mid-cap growth strategies and is responsible for managing nearly $1 billion in assets. Prior to joining Fifth Third, he was a Principal, Founder and Senior Portfolio Manager with Paladin. Prior to co-founding Paladin, Mr. Billeadeau spent eight years managing over $2 billion in small-cap and mid-cap assets for Bank of America and Nations Bank. Mr. Billeadeau began his career in 1985 with American Express Financial Advisers, previously IDS Financial Services, Inc., where he was a quantitative analyst. Mr. Billeadeau received a B.A. in Economics from Princeton University and has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Institute. Mr. Billeadeau is the Chairman of the Audit Committee and has served on the Board since January 2001. His current Board term expires in concurrence with the Annual Meeting of Stockholders for fiscal 2009.
    Total Compensation: $ —
    Mr. Siebecker, age 66, serves as President of Burgess Consulting LLC. Mr. Siebecker was a managing director of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation ("DTC"). He joined the National Securities Clearing Corporation ("NSCC"), a subsidiary of DTC, in 1996 as a Managing Director in charge of the organization's Annuity Processing Service. Mr. Siebecker's background is in retail and institutional investment services in the domestic and global markets. Prior to joining NSCC, Mr. Siebecker was a consultant to the Trading Services Division at Lehman Brothers and spent 16 years at Salomon Smith Barney Inc., where he was responsible for the Operations Division as Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer. Mr. Siebecker is a member of the Audit Committee and the Compensation Committee and has served on the Board since November 1997. His current Board term expires in concurrence with the Annual Meeting of Stockholders for fiscal 2008.
    Joseph R. Zimmel - Director
    Total Compensation: $ —
    Mr. Zimmel, age 53, is a private investor and a retired Managing Director of Goldman, Sachs & Co. From December 2001 until November 2002, Mr. Zimmel served as an Advisory Director to the Goldman Sachs Group. In the investment banking division at Goldman, Sachs & Co., Mr. Zimmel held the position of Managing Director of the Communications, Media & Entertainment Group for the Americas from 1999 to 2001, after acting as a Managing Director and a co-head of the group from 1992 to 1999. In addition to his appointment to FactSet's Board of Directors, Mr. Zimmel currently serves as a member of the board of directors of CenturyTel, Inc. He has also served on the board of directors of Digitas Inc. Mr. Zimmel is nominated for a three-year term, which would expire in concurrence with the Annual Meeting of Stockholders for fiscal 2010. Effective for fiscal 2008, Mr. Joseph R. Zimmel is as a member Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and will replace Mr. Laird as a member of the Audit Committee.