Bob has served as CEO or Chief Commercial Officer for leading companies in information services, software and technology-enabled businesses for over 15 years. His leadership has led to numerous private-equity transactions and a successful IPO. Bob has a consistent track record of driving profitable ...more

Bob has served as CEO or Chief Commercial Officer for leading companies in information services, software and technology-enabled businesses for over 15 years. His leadership has led to numerous private-equity transactions and a successful IPO. Bob has a consistent track record of driving profitable revenue growth, primarily through exceptional go-to-market practices, resulting in meaningful value creation for customers, colleagues and investors. Bob was most recently Chief Commercial Officer at Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and a key member of the leadership team that sold the business to the Deutsche Borse Group AG (with a valuation of $ 2.3B) in 2022. During his tenure at ISS, the company experienced unprecedented revenue growth. Bob is presently an active Board Member of Claritas, a marketing analytics and data business, and a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group. Bob has advised numerous Private Equity firms and portfolio companies on commercial best practices to accelerate profitable revenue growth. Formerly, he was Chief Commercial Officer at Clarivate, where he helped lead the carve-out of the $ 1.0B business from Thomson Reuters, following the acquisition by the investment management firm, ONEX Corporation. Bob was responsible for leading 1,400+ colleagues in Sales, Marketing, Operations, Business Intelligence, Strategy, Pricing and Professional Services. In this role, he transformed the commercial abilities of the company, while recruiting new talent in numerous leadership positions, including a new CMO. He helped position the company for its successful IPO (with an initial valuation of over $ 5.0B). Prior to Clarivate, Bob was CEO & President of Law & Business, a division of Wolters Kluwer, with $ 400M in revenues and 900 colleagues around the world. In this role, Bob led all aspects of the business, including commercial, product, data operations, content, technology and all operational functions, bringing to market a leading platform for the delivery of regulatory insights and legal analysis. Earlier in his career, Bob was an executive member of two management teams that concluded successful outcomes and delivered considerable value to investors (i.e., Primark, Inc. sold to Thomson Reuters; Global Insight, Inc. sold to IHS). He began his professional career in Sales with GE. Bob is a Senior Advisor to Stanford University's "Code X," a collaboration between Law Students, Professors, Entrepreneurs, and Investors, as well as a Board member of Claritas, a Carlyle-owned marketing analytics company.less