Total Compensation: $ 601,000.00
Ethan Berman (age 46) is our chief executive officer and serves as the chairman of our board of directors. Mr. Berman was one of our founding members at the time of our spin-off from JPMorgan in 1998 and has served as our chief executive officer since such time and as chairman of our board of directors since June 2004. Prior to our spin-off, Mr. Berman was a managing director at JPMorgan and was responsible for the firm's Risk Management Services Group. As head of that group, he led JPMorgan's risk advisory work, including the development of risk products and services such as RiskManager and CreditManager. Mr. Berman joined JPMorgan in 1987 as a bond trader. Mr. Berman has a B.A. from Williams College.
Total Compensation: $ 456,000.00
David Obstler is our chief financial officer and has served as such since January 2005. From 2000 to 2004, he was chief financial officer and executive vice president of corporate development for Pinnacor Inc., a NASDAQ publicly listed provider of software and services to the financial services industry. Prior to that, he was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and JPMorgan. He has a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from the Harvard School of Business.
Total Compensation: $ —
Effective as of May 15, 2008, Eric Daniels, age 29, will serve as the interim principal accounting officer. Mr. Daniels has served as our director of financial reporting and technical accounting since July 2007. From August 2004 to July 2007, Mr. Daniels worked for Audiovox Corporation, a NASDAQ publicly listed electronics distributor, in a variety of positions including Corporate Controller. Prior to August 2004, Mr. Daniels spent three years at KPMG in the audit and advisory services practice. Mr. Daniels has a B.A. in accounting from Hofstra University and is a certified public accountant.
Total Compensation: $ —
Kayla Gillan has served as our chief administrative officer since February 1, 2008. From 2003 to January 2008, Ms. Gillan served as a board member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, or the PCAOB, a not-for-profit corporation created pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to oversee the auditors of public companies. Prior to being appointed to the PCAOB, she was general counsel to the California Public Employees' Retirement System, a provider of retirement and health benefits to over 1.5 million public employees. Ms. Gillan currently serves on the Independent Advisory Board to the NACD Corporate Directors Institute, and on the Board of Governors of the International Corporate Governance Network. She holds a B.A. from California State University at Sacramento and a J.D. from the University of California at Davis.
Total Compensation: $ —
Frank Noonan (age 65) has served as one of our directors since February 2008. Mr. Noonan served as chairman and chief executive officer of R.H. Donnelly Co., a print and interactive marketing company, from 1991 until his retirement in 2002. Mr. Noonan is currently a director of NewStar Financial, Inc., a specialized commercial finance company and Avnet, Inc., a distributor of electronic components and computer products. He has a B.A. from the University of New Hampshire.
Total Compensation: $ —
Lynn Sharp Paine (age 58) is nominated to begin service immediately upon election by the shareholders. Ms. Paine is the John G. McLean Professor at the Harvard Business School and has served as such since 1998. She currently heads the required MBA course on Leadership and Corporate Accountability and co-chairs the affiliated faculty interest group. At Harvard, Ms. Paine is a Faculty Associate of the University's Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. She is also a member of the advisory board of Leadership Forum International (LFI), the academic advisory board of the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Reasearch at Wharton, and the academic council of the Hills Program on Governance at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C Ms. Paine is a graduate of Smith College, and holds a doctorate in moral philosophy from Oxford University and J.D. from the Harvard Law School.
Total Compensation: $ —
Philip Duff (age 51) has served as one of our directors since 2001. Mr. Duff has served as chairman and chief executive officer of Duff Capital Advisors since January 2007. From January 2000 to 2006, he served as chairman and chief executive officer of FrontPoint Partners LLC, an investment management firm which he founded. Previous to that, Mr. Duff was the chief financial officer of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. Mr. Duff is currently a director of Ambac Financial Group, Inc. Mr. Duff holds a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Total Compensation: $ 366,000.00
Richard Leggett is head of our Governance business and has served as such since our acquisition of CFRA on August 1, 2007. Prior to that, he served as chief executive officer of CFRA since 2005. Before joining CFRA, he was a managing director at Goldman Sachs in New York and London, where he worked in the research division from 2000 until 2004 and the investment banking division from 2004 until 2005. Mr. Leggett has a B.S. from Georgetown University.
Total Compensation: $ 361,000.00
Jorge Mina has served as co-head of our Risk business since July 2005. Mr. Mina was one of our founding members at the time of our spin-off from JPMorgan and served as our head of research from 2003 to 2005, where he was responsible for analytics across RiskMetrics' products and services. Prior to our spin-off, he worked in Risk Management Services at JPMorgan. Mr. Mina has an M.S. from the University of Chicago and a B.S. from the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico.
Total Compensation: $ 391,000.00
Gregg E. Berman has served as co-head of our Risk business since 2007. In 2006, Mr. Berman served as our head of strategic development. Mr. Berman was one of our founding members at the time of our spin-off from JPMorgan in 1998 and has served a number of roles, including product manager from 1999 to 2000, head of Market Risk from 2000 to 2004 and head of sales in 2005. Mr. Berman is a physicist by training and holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. from Princeton University and a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Total Compensation: $ —
Lovida Coleman, Jr (age 58) was appointed as one of our directors in November 2007. Ms. Coleman is a partner in the law firm of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP and has held that position since 1993 and is a member of the Board of Trustees of RAND Corporation, a non-profit think tank. She has an A.B. from Harvard University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Total Compensation: $ —
Rene Kern (age 44) has served as one of our directors since June 2004. Mr. Kern is a managing director of General Atlantic LLC, a global growth equity firm that provides capital and strategic support for growth companies and has been with General Atlantic LLC since 1996. Mr. Kern is currently a director of Intec Telecoms Systems plc, a provider of business and operations support systems, and the Brazilian Mercantile & Futures Exchange, a global derivatives exchange. He has a B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley and both an M.B.A. and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Total Compensation: $ —
Arthur Levitt (age 77) has served as one of our directors since April 2005. Mr. Levitt currently serves as a senior advisor to The Carlyle Group. Mr. Levitt served as the chairman of the SEC from 1993 to 2001. Prior to joining the SEC, Mr. Levitt owned Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill. From 1989 to 1993 he served as chairman of the NYC Economic Development Corporation and from 1978 to 1989 was chairman of the American Stock Exchange. Mr. Levitt is currently an advisory director of M&T Bank Corporation, a regional bank headquartered in western New York. He served two years in the United States Air Force and holds a B.A. degree from Williams College.
Total Compensation: $ —
Christopher Mitchell (age 36) has served as one of our directors since 2006. He is a managing director of Spectrum Equity Investors, L.P., a private equity investor in growth companies and has held that position since December 2005. From 2001 to December 2005, Mr. Mitchell served as a principal at Spectrum Equity Investors, L.P. Mr. Mitchell has a A.B. from Princeton University.
Total Compensation: $ —
Robert Trudeau (age 39) has served as one of our directors since September 2005. Mr. Trudeau is currently a general partner at Technology Crossover Ventures, a private equity and venture capital firm focused on information technology companies and has served as such since August 2005. From 2003 to 2005, he was a principal at General Atlantic Partners. Prior to General Atlantic, Mr. Trudeau served as a managing director at iFormation Group, a joint venture between General Atlantic, Goldman Sachs and Boston Consulting Group. He has a B.A.H. in Political Science from Queen's University and an M.B.A. from The University of Western Ontario.
Total Compensation: $ —
Stephen Thieke (age 61) served as chairman of our board of directors from our inception in 1998 until June 2004 and was re-elected to serve as one of our directors in April 2007. From August 1989 to July 1999, Mr. Thieke worked for JPMorgan in a variety of senior management positions, including head of fixed income, business co-head of global markets, president and chairman of JPMorgan Securities, Inc. and head of the corporate risk management group. Mr. Thieke served on the board of directors of the Financial Services Authority of the United Kingdom. Mr. Thieke is a member of the board of directors of PNC Financial Services Group Inc., a regional bank headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mr. Thieke holds a B.A. degree from Manhattan College.
