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Mike Walsh

Chief Executive Officer
Legal & Professional

Mike Walsh is CEO of the global legal business of LexisNexis.

Prior to his current role, Mike was President and CEO of the LexisNexis U.S. Legal Markets business. He lead the transformation of the business from a provider of legal research to a solutions partner – helping law firms, corporations and governments better manage their businesses. Mike joined LexisNexis in 2003 as Senior Vice President, Global Strategy and Business Development, where he helped oversee significant expansion into the LexisNexis® Risk Management sector.

Prior to joining LexisNexis, Mike was Director of Strategic Business Development at Home Depot. Earlier in his career, he was a practicing attorney with Weil, Gotshal and Manges in Washington D.C., spent time at General Electric, and served as a strategic management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group. He also co-founded Infirmation.com, the third-highest traffic generating online portal for lawyers at the time, and oversaw the company’s merger with Findlaw and then Thomson.

Mike earned his JD from Harvard Law School and received his BA from Yale University. He grew up in Colorado and now resides in Larchmont, New York, with his wife Sheila and their two children, Sophie and Deven.

James Peck

Chief Executive Officer
Risk Solutions

James Peck is Chief Executive Officer for the risk solutions business of  LexisNexis®. He started with the business unit in March 2004 with responsibility for driving revenue and merging market needs with technology solutions. In 2008, Peck spearheaded the $4 billion acquisition and integration of ChoicePoint® into LexisNexis, which was a milestone transaction to catapult LexisNexis into a leadership position in the risk management space. Peck also facilitated the 2004 Seisint acquisition and integration into LexisNexis. Under Peck’s leadership, the business unit has become a $1.5 billion dollar business with a history of consistent double-digit growth and significant margin improvements for the past five years.

Previously, Peck was Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer of the Global Electronic Product Development Organization for LexisNexis.  He was responsible for product development and online solutions to serve global markets.  He was appointed to this position in October 2001.

Prior to 2001, Peck was the Senior Vice President of Product Development with Celera Genomics, a bio-technology firm.  After joining Celera in 1999, Peck led the construction of a new online system containing information about human genetics deployed in task-based applications for research scientists, delivered via the Internet. He spearheaded the creation of their product development group and increased revenue by more than 100% in fiscal year 2001.

Peck previously spent a decade at LexisNexis in engineering and executive roles to manage build data and editorial systems.  In 1997, Peck joined Lexis Online Publishing to head product design.  As Vice- President of product development, he led the teams that designed and built all the components of the lexis.com? research system. Peck also headed creation of a new editorial publishing system for the summaries and launched the summaries operations that now employ 700 full-time lawyer-editors.

Peck serves as a Trustee on the Board of the Directors for the southeast region Boys & Girls Club of America.  He also serves on the Board of Directors for the metro-Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and the March of Dimes of Georgia.

Peck earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Dayton in management information systems, and a masters in business administration from The Ohio State University. He lives in the Atlanta-area, with his family.

Shawn Clark

Managing Director, Asia

Legal & Professional

Shawn Clark is the Managing Director, Asia, for the legal business of LexisNexis. He is responsible for developing strategies to expand the adoption of online information-based products and services, including litigation and practice management solutions that further the company’s strong growth in the region.

Mr. Clark has been with LexisNexis for more than 19 years and has held various leadership roles in both the U.S. and Asia, including editorial, product management and acquisition integration. Most recently, Mr. Clark served as Director, Strategy and Marketing for the Asia business, after starting in the region in 2007 as Director of Business Development and Strategy, Asia Pacific.

Prior to that, Mr. Clark held roles in the U.S. Legal Markets, where he led strategy and business development for Client Development and was also responsible for product management, editorial development, and acquisition planning and integration.

Mr. Clark studied Economics at Rutgers University and received his Masters of Business Administration from New York University.

Mr. Clark is based in Singapore and reports directly to Mike Walsh, the Chief Executive Officer for the legal business. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his wife and three children, catching up on American football, photography, and travelling.

Jeffrey Glazer

Chief Executive Officer, Insurance
Risk Solutions

Jeffrey Glazer is Chief Executive Officer, Insurance for the risk solutions business of LexisNexis®. In this role, he manages all aspects of insurance business, which provides unique underwriting engines driven by data, a high-growth software business, business outsourcing, fraud and claims solutions for the P&C Personal and Commercial insurance industry.

Glazer began his career working for the Hartford Insurance Group, where he gained expertise in both personal and commercial lines insurance and technology. When he left the Hartford in 1985, he was a senior officer responsible for commercial lines insurance.

Glazer founded Programming Resources Company in 1985, focusing on developing innovative software insurance solutions. This company was purchased by Equifax in 1994. At Equifax, Glazer served as Vice President of the Insurance division, where he was responsible for the market-leading software provided to the commercial property/casualty insurance industry.

After ChoicePoint spun off from Equifax in 1997, Glazer joined the ChoicePoint team in its Insurance division as Vice President. ChoicePoint was acquired by Reed Elsevier in 2008 and integrated into LexisNexis.

Glazer holds a degree in mathematics from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Phil Livingston

Chief Executive Officer, Marketing & Business Solutions
Legal & Professional

Phil Livingston is the Chief Executive Officer for the Marketing and Business Solutions organization of LexisNexis in the U.S., providing online marketing services, website construction and optimization, as well as ratings and lead generation services. His responsibility also includes Lawyers.com^SM, a leading online destination for consumers in search of legal help or referral to an attorney.

Mr. Livingston was President and CEO of Financial Executives International (FEI) from 1999 to 2003. FEI is the preeminent association for senior financial executives acting as an advocate to regulators and legislators. In this role, he had significant participation in formulation and passage of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002.

From 2003 to 2005, he was Chief Financial Officer and Director of World Wrestling Entertainment.  Prior to joining FEI, Mr. Livingston served as CFO of Catalina Marketing Corporation, a supplier of electronically-targeted marketing services for the consumer packaged goods industry.

Before joining Catalina, Mr. Livingston was CFO of Celestial Seasonings, where he successfully managed the company’s initial public offering and debt refinancing in 1993. His early career included positions in financial management and auditing with Genentech, Inc. and Ernst & Young, where he earned his CPA. He received an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley and BS and BA degrees from the University of Maryland.

Prior to entering the business world, Mr. Livingston played offensive tackle as a member of the 1981 Super Bowl Champion Oakland Raiders. Mr. Livingston and his wife Karen have three children, Sarah, Scott and Cindy.

Rick Trainor

Chief Executive Officer, Business Services and Content
Risk Solutions

Rick Trainor is Chief Executive Officer, Business Services and Content for the risk solutions business of LexisNexis®. Named to this position in July of 2009, Trainor directs the unit's strategy, market and product direction, and manages the sales and vertical marketing teams for the business unit's banking, receivables management and corporate/emerging markets. In addition he manages the company's content acquisition, bulk content fabrication, sales and licensing, along with managing our two specialty businesses: VitalChek and Signature Information Solutions.

Previously, Trainor served as Senior Vice President of Content and Data Services. In that capacity, Trainor was responsible for all content acquisition, along with bulk content fabrication, sales and licensing.

Prior to joining LexisNexis, Trainor was Vice President of Content for Seisint, a privately owned Boca based company, which was acquired by LexisNexis in 2004. In this position, he was responsible for all content acquisition. Prior to 2001, Trainor served as Vice President of Contracts and Program Management for Diveo Broadband Networks, where he managed significant vendor financing agreements and the contract management aspects of building out world-class data centers and fixed wireless networks across Latin America.

Trainor serves on the Board of Directors for Zoo Atlanta. He earned his BS in Accounting and MS in Finance from Boston College.

Bob Romeo

Chief Executive Officer, Research & Litigation Solutions
Legal & Professional

Bob Romeo joined LexisNexis in December 2008 and is responsible for the Research and Litigation Solutions organization of LexisNexis in the U.S., serving the information and workflow needs of professionals in legal, government and corporate markets.  Legal and information professionals rely on expansive LexisNexis® content and tools when researching case law, developing a litigation strategy, planning depositions as well as researching companies and individuals and tracking and analyzing news events.  Major lines of business include Litigation Solutions, Practice Area Solutions and Business Insight Solutions as well as flagship Research Solutions.

Prior to joining LexisNexis, Mr. Romeo was with the Thomson Reuters Corporation for over 19 years, where he held various positions including Chief Financial Officer of Thomson Legal & Regulatory and most recently served as Senior Vice President of Operations of The Thomson Corporation. Other prior experience includes senior roles at several business-to-business information providers serving the legal, tax and accounting markets.

Mr. Romeo is a graduate of Iona College, New Rochelle, NY with a B.B.A., Accounting. His affiliations include, New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Romeo  resides in St. Paul, MN with his wife, Carol and three children.

Haywood Talcove

Chief Executive Officer, Government and LexisNexis Special Services Inc.
Risk Solutions

Haywood "Woody" Talcove is Chief Executive Officer, Government and LexisNexis Special Services Inc., for the risk solutions business of LexisNexis®. In this role, he is responsible for all sales, market planning and product management for government for LexisNexis. Talcove also oversees all operations for LexisNexis Special Services Inc. (LNSSI), a separate subsidiary that is responsible for classified government business. A recognized expert in the Government IT space, Talcove joined LexisNexis in 2008, bringing a customer-centric focus to LNSSI's operations.

Previously, Talcove served as Vice President of Public Sector Americas for Juniper Networks, where he spearheaded federal (civilian, intelligence, and defense) state and local, and education sales for the company, and supported the networking and security needs of government through Juniper's broad range of high performance technology solutions. Earlier in his career, Talcove served in several positions at Cabletron Systems.

Talcove is a sought-after source for trend analysis by media and industry event organizers, and serves on the Board of the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation.

Talcove earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in public administration from the University of Maine.

Judy Vezmar

Chief Executive Officer, International,
Legal & Professional

Judy Vezmar is the Chief Executive Officer, International for the legal business of LexisNexis.

Ms. Vezmar is responsible for LexisNexis business units in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, Canada, Africa, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand. LexisNexis encompasses authoritative legal-publishing brands dating back to the 19th century including; Butterworths® in the United Kingdom, Canada, the Pacific region, Les Editions du Juris Classeur in France, and Martindale-Hubbell® worldwide. Judy is based in London.

Ms. Vezmar joined LexisNexis from Xerox Corporation where she held various roles including senior vice president & general manager of Financial Services Industry, Xerox Europe. Ms. Vezmar and her team developed and implemented a highly successful strategy to provide industry-focused, full-service solutions to the European financial services industry. Previously, she held various senior positions in the U.S., including VPGM, head of strategy and planning and various marketing and sales leadership roles.

Ms. Vezmar holds an MBA from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science degree in business and marketing from Marian College, Butler University.

Lee Rivas

Senior Vice President and General Manager
Risk Solutions

Lee Rivas is Senior Vice President and General Manager for the screening business of LexisNexis®. He is responsible for growing the background screening business and to enhance its position as an industry leader.  Other roles he has held at LexisNexis include Vice President of Sales for the legal division and Senior Director of Strategy.
 
Prior to joining LexisNexis, Lee spent three years at the strategy consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he was an Engagement Manager specializing in strategy, marketing, and sales force improvement for Fortune 500 companies. 

Previous to McKinsey, Lee spent five years in the U.S. Army where he served in a variety of leadership roles including M1A2 tank platoon leader and M3A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle Reconnaissance platoon leader.  He was stationed at various U.S. locations and in the Middle East where he participated in operations in Kuwait.

Lee serves on the Board of Directors for the Children’s Museum of Atlanta. Lee graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a BS in Political Science where he was a member of the academic honor society Phi Kappa Phi.  He holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School.  He is married with two children and resides in the metro-Atlanta area.

Jeff Reihl

Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
LexisNexis Legal & Professional

Jeff Reihl is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the global legal business of LexisNexis. In this capacity, Mr. Reihl is responsible for global technology strategy, bringing together the company’s applications, product platforms and business systems to deliver LexisNexis world-class content to its customers in innovative ways. As CTO, Mr. Reihl also leverages the company’s cutting-edge technology and deep customer insight to help legal professionals work more effectively and efficiently and achieve better outcomes for their businesses and clients. Prior to his current role, Mr. Reihl led the New Lexis Technology and Operations team, Global Solutions Development, and before that, Editorial & Content Development for LexisNexis.

Before joining LexisNexis in 2007, Mr. Reihl held multiple executive leadership roles at Thomson Corporation in both P&L and staff functions, including Chief Information Officer of Thomson Healthcare and Executive Vice President of Thomson Clinical Solutions and Thomson Micromedex. Prior to that, Mr. Reihl was VP, Product and Systems Development at ProQuest and also served as a Principle Engineer and Software Manager at Hughes Network Systems.

Mr. Reihl holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Central Michigan University and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Outside of work, Mr. Reihl enjoys skiing, golfing, hiking, biking and spending time with his wife, 20-year-old daughter and 16-year-old son.

Eric Hess

Senior Vice President, Global Operations
Risk Solutions

Eric Hess is Senior Vice President, Global Operations for the risk solutions business of LexisNexis®. In this capacity, Eric drives strategic direction for all U.S. and international operations for Risk Solutions, which include Screening Fulfillment, Customer Service, Compliance and Regulatory support and Consumer Advocacy. The Operations group comprises more than 1200 employees worldwide and maintains a customer-centric focus, dedicated to delivering streamlined, technology-driven services that help LexisNexis clients make better informed decisions.

Prior to joining LexisNexis, Eric was Vice President and General Manager of Occupational Health Services for ChoicePoint. Under his leadership, the group successfully launched new solutions to the marketplace such as The Digital Solution for Drug Testing – an advanced Web-based technology that offers instant transparency into historically manual processes such as substance abuse screening.

Eric is a respected industry expert on the topics of drug testing and employment-related screening, and is a frequent lecturer, speaker and author on these topics. In 2001, he was appointed by the Secretary of Transportation to the Department of Transportation's Federal Advisory Committee for the Transmission and Storage of Electronic Drug Testing Information.  Having served more than a decade on the legislative and regulatory affairs committee of the Drug and Alcohol Testing Industry Association (DATIA), including two years as Board Chairman, he now resides as Chair Emeritus.  Eric is also a previous recipient of Entrepreneur of the Year Award by Inc. Magazine and Ernst and Young.

Alex Watson

Executive Vice President, Operations
LexisNexis Legal & Professional

Alex Watson is Executive Vice President, Operations for the global legal business of LexisNexis. In this role, Mr. Watson is responsible for editorial, content operations, customer service and support, global licensing, manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution. Mr. Watson is also the site leader for the Dayton campus facility, the largest LexisNexis and Reed Elsevier location globally.

Most recently, Mr. Watson was a Senior Vice President, leading editorial, content operations, manufacturing, distribution, and shared services, primarily in support of the Research and Litigation Solutions and Marketing and Business Solutions organizations in U.S. Before that, he held the role of SVP, Strategy for Global Operations.

Mr. Watson joined LexisNexis from another Reed Elsevier division, Harcourt Education. As SVP, Global Operations at Harcourt, he was responsible for establishing the company’s global operations organization. He also led editorial, production, customer service and support, warehousing and distribution as well as the technology group that developed Harcourt’s online education platform and products.  Mr. Watson first joined Reed Elsevier in 2001 as Director of U.S. Book Production for Elsevier, and he went on to serve as Vice President, Global Book Production, where he was responsible for the creation of Elsevier’s industry leading health sciences products, including online, print and e-learning. 

Prior to joining Reed Elsevier, Mr. Watson worked in small businesses providing editorial services and publishing software in Scotland and at Churchill Livingstone, the U.K.’s leading health sciences publisher.

Mr. Watson graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a master’s degree in English Language & Literature.

Mr. Watson lives in Springboro, Ohio with his wife Ulrika, children Rebecca and Christopher, and his grandson, David.

Harry Jordan

Vice President and General Manager, Health Care
Risk Solutions

Harry Jordan is Vice President and General Manager, Health Care for the risk solutions business of LexisNexis. He directs the Health Care business, offering capabilities in Health Management, Predictive Claims Fraud Analytics and Health Information Exchanges.

Jordan joined LexisNexis in 2004 as Vice President, Strategy; then in 2007 he transitioned to Vice President, Government solutions. Since joining LexisNexis, he has led several acquisition due diligence efforts including the $775M Seisint and the $4.1B ChoicePoint acquisitions. He also led various critical initiatives for the business such as coordinating the response and remediation to the 2005 LexisNexis data fraudulent incident.

Prior to joining LexisNexis, Jordan served as a management consultant with The Boston Consulting Group and Perot Systems. He ran the Financial Services business unit of the IT infrastructure consulting firm Greenwich Technology Partners. Jordan has also been an IT consultant with Cambridge Technology Partners (now part of Novell) and began his career with Price Waterhouse as a consultant.

Jordan holds a BA in Economics from Yale University and an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Kumsal Bayazit

Global Senior Vice President, Strategy
Legal & Professional

As Global Senior Vice President of Strategy, Kumsal Bayazit is responsible for the Global Strategy organization of the legal business of LexisNexis. Her responsibilities include driving global strategic initiatives and supporting business units in strategic efforts.

Ms. Bayazit joined LexisNexis in New York in the Global Strategy and Business Development team in 2004.  Initially she focused on corporate and federal markets, leading strategy projects on the business units’ key issues, identifying and pursuing companies to partner with and/or acquire as well as lead due diligence for acquisitions.

After two years in the strategy team, Ms. Bayazit transferred to the UK to assume an operational role.  She was in charge of the Large Law segment as well as the solutions portfolio. She had responsibility for driving the development of new solutions for the UK market as well as pricing, strategy and business development.

Prior to joining the company, Ms. Bayazit spent several years at Bain & Company in their New York, Los Angeles, Johannesburg, and Sydney offices. Her work at Bain included private equity, consumer products and financial services.

Ms. Bayazit has an MBA from Harvard Business School and is a graduate of University of California at Berkeley where she received a Bachelor’s degree in Economics with honors. Ms. Bayazit is originally from Turkey. In her spare time she enjoys traveling and cooking.

Rebecca Schmitt

Chief Financial Officer
Risk Solutions

Rebecca (Becky) Schmitt is Chief Financial Officer for the risk solutions business of LexisNexis®. In this role, she is responsible for leading the finance function, including planning and analysis, financial reporting and various accounting functions. The finance team is focused on providing analysis and recommendations that support the decision making of the business to drive profitable growth.

Previously, Schmitt spent twenty years with various divisions of Sara Lee Corporation. Her most recent role was Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer for Sara Lee Branded Foods, a $1 billion division that included the Sara Lee Bakery portfolio. Other roles crossed a variety of financial disciplines, including integration of several acquisitions, planning and analysis, general accounting, accounts receivable and supply chain finance.

Schmitt serves on the Board of Directors for Hands on Atlanta. She also holds a certified Management Accountant (CMA) designation and earned her bachelor's degree in business administration from Hanover College, and an MBA from Northern Illinois University.

Ian McDougall

Executive Vice President and General Counsel

Ian McDougall is the Executive Vice President and General Counsel for global legal business of LexisNexis.

Mr. McDougall joined LexisNexis in 2004 as Vice President and Legal Director for LexisNexis International (LNI), where he oversaw the legal function for the group, including Regulatory Compliance, Commercial Agreements, IT, Intellectual Property and Litigation. Mr. McDougall was also involved in business strategy, acquisitions and general business planning. At LexisNexis, Mr. McDougall has stepped into varying roles, including Interim HR Director for LNI and Interim Managing Director for LexisNexis New Zealand. In addition, he led the LexisNexis implementation of the U.K. Bribery Act compliance and created the first broad regulatory compliance review.

Before joining LexisNexis, he led Legal, HR and Facilities Management at Telco Global Ltd., previously one of the largest U.K. independent telecom providers. Mr. McDougall also acted as Chief European Counsel and Group Company Secretary for Hughes Electronics, a former subsidiary of General Motors Corp. Prior to that, Mr. McDougall served in various legal leadership roles for a number of technology and finance organizations; he also has extensive private practice experience.

A proponent of advancing the rule of law, Mr. McDougall acts as a Board Director and Trustee for U.K. charity Peaceful Place, which is dedicated to providing support to sufferers of early-onset dementia. He was also appointed as judge in the Barrister’s Disciplinary Tribunal and is a broadcast cricket commentator in association with the Royal National Institute for the Blind. Mr. McDougall is based in New York.

Armando Escalante

Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

Risk Solutions

Armando Escalante is Chief Technology Officer for the risk solutions business of LexisNexis®. In this position, Escalante is responsible for technology development, R&D, information systems, security and operations. Previously, Escalante was Chief Operating Officer for Seisint, which was acquired by LexisNexis in 2004. In this position, he was responsible for Technology, Development and Operations.

Prior to 2001, Escalante served as Vice President of Engineering and Operations for Diveo Broadband Networks, where he led world-class data centers located in the U.S. and Latin America. Before Diveo Broadband Networks, Escalante was VP and General Manager for one of the fastest growing divisions of Vignette Corporation, an eBusiness software leader. He also worked for Unisys Corporation, EPSON America and Bell Labs.

Escalante serves on the Board of Directors for TechBridge, and is a member of the Board of Advisors at Florida Atlantic University. He earned his bachelor's degree in electronic engineering at the USB in Caracas, Venezuela and a master's degree in computer science from Steven Institute of Technology as well as a Master's degree in business administration from West Coast University.

Lisa Agona

Chief Marketing Officer
Risk Solutions

Lisa Agona is Chief Marketing Officer for the risk solutions business of LexisNexis®. In this role, Agona leads the development and implementation of marketing strategies that drive revenue growth, elevate the brand and represent the voice of the customer.

Joining LexisNexis in 2007, Agona spearheaded the communication strategy for the $4 billion 2008 acquisition of ChoicePoint, and in 2009 led a year-long company-wide rebranding effort as ChoicePoint was integrated into LexisNexis.

Previously, Agona was global marketing director for Accenture’s capital markets group. She also held the role of Vice President with Republic National Bank of New York (now HSBC) where she co-lead the development of one of the early online banks. Agona's areas of expertise traverse business-to-business and business-to-consumer markets, and include marketing strategy, branding, product management, direct marketing, and corporate in-house venturing.

Agona serves on the Board of Directors for the Junior Achievement of Georgia. She holds a BA in economics from West Virginia University and an MBA from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.

Carolyn Ullerick

Global Chief Financial Officer
Legal & Professional

Carolyn Ullerick is the Global Chief Financial Officer for the legal business of LexisNexis. Ms. Ullerick joined LexisNexis in 2000. She has successfully focused on revenue and profit drivers to ensure delivery of the company’s goals. Ms. Ullerick pushes the boundaries of the traditional CFO role, involving herself in strategy, operations, systems, people issues, and more.

Ms. Ullerick is also the company’s "Chief M&A Officer," helping to target and vet numerous acquisitions and to extend the company’s lead in legal, corporate, government, tax, and academic solutions. In this capacity, she plays a pivotal role in the development and execution of the company’s strategy through early portfolio analysis, market attractiveness assessments, and investment and acquisition strategies.

Ms. Ullerick brings to wide-ranging experience from a number of industries including publishing, media, technology, and packaged goods. She joined LexisNexis from Hostess Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo, where she was CFO of the Canadian operations. In her capacity there, Ms. Ullerick was instrumental in restructuring product pricing and sizing, as well as the delivery trade spend, and affecting an increase in productivity to create 20 percent compounded annual growth.

Prior to PepsiCo, Ms. Ullerick was VP of Finance for the Southam Newspaper Group in Toronto where she provided financial guidance to the CEO and CFO. Among other highlights, she implemented a successful three-year strategic planning process, with a heavy emphasis on growth strategies, and a corresponding effort to streamline non-core activities.

Before joining Southam Newspaper Group, Ms. Ullerick held increasingly senior financial positions with the Wireless Group of Northern Telecom, Corporate Audit and FP&A for the London Free press, a division of The Blackburn Media Group, and Internal Audit for Scott’s Hospitality.

Ms. Ullerick received a BA in Finance from the University of Western Ontario, Canada’s premier Business School. She also holds a CMA in accounting.

Scott Sessler

Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development
Risk Solutions

Scott Sessler is Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development for the risk solutions business of LexisNexis®. In this role, he is responsible for strategic planning, acquisitions, strategic business development projects and competitive intelligence.

Sessler's involvement with this business unit began in 2000 as a member of the team responsible for the acquisition of RiskWise International, which ultimately led to the establishment of the LexisNexis risk-focused business. He joined the Risk business in 2001, with responsibility for strategic planning, business development and competitive intelligence. Sessler has been an active participant in large-scale acquisitions including RiskWise, Dolan, Seisint and ChoicePoint, which have grown the business from $46 million in 2000 to $1.4 billion in revenues, and has also been a key driver in the divestments of several non-core businesses. He has also served as Venture Associate to the Reed Elsevier Ventures Fund.

Prior to Sessler's role in LexisNexis, he led the Strategic Marketing function within the Nexis organization. He joined LexisNexis in 1986 as a senior business analyst, and has held a variety of positions in strategy, business development and finance.

Sessler earned his BBA in Finance and Accounting at the University of Cincinnati, and his MBA from The Ohio State University. He is also a certified public accountant (inactive) in Ohio, and serves on the Strategic Communications committee of TechnologyFirst, a nonprofit trade association based in Dayton, Ohio.

Doreen Tyburski

Global Executive Vice President, Human Resources
LexisNexis Legal & Professional

As Global Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Doreen Tyburski oversees all HR activities for the legal business of LexisNexis, which employs 10,000 people serving customers in more than 100 countries. Her 30-year career in the insurance, financial services and technology industries gives Ms. Tyburski extensive experience in human resources and organizational development.

Joining LexisNexis in 2011, Ms. Tyburski previously was Executive Vice President, Human Resources, for enterprise financial software company Misys Plc., where she was involved in the company’s acquisition of healthcare software provider Allscripts. She specifically worked to engage employees to strengthen the organization’s commitment to customers and shareholders, building trust in leadership with an eye on employee development.

Prior to Misys, Ms. Tyburski held senior HR positions with various professional services companies, including Somerset Hills Bank, GAB Business Services Inc. and Continental Insurance Company (now CNA). Additionally, she spent several years as president and CEO of Renaissance Inc., the largest independent trust administrator in the U.S., where she led the company to return to profitability.

Ms. Tyburski was a trustee for National University, La Jolla, CA from 2004 to 2008 and currently acts as an advisor to a privately held small company.

Ms. Tyburski is based in New York. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Ind.

Donald Welsko

Senior Vice President, Human Resources
Risk Solutions

Donald Welsko is Senior Vice President, Human Resources for the risk solutions business of LexisNexis®. Welsko joined LexisNexis in 2008, during Reed Elsevier's acquisition of ChoicePoint, commencing an integration that nearly quintupled the size of the business unit.

With more than twenty years of operating and executive human resources experience, Welsko has held positions with PepsiCo (Frito Lay), General Electric (GE Capital), Sears, The Limited, and Philips Electronics. He currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Georgia State Chamber of Commerce and the North Fulton Chamber of Commerce, and was previously a board member for the Georgia Special Olympics, the HR Leadership Forum and SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise).

Welsko holds a BS degree in Industrial & Labor Relations from Cornell University, an MBA from Jacksonville University, and the SPHR designation from the Human Resource Certification Institute.

Meredith Sidewater

Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Risk Solutions

Meredith Sidewater is Senior Vice President and General Counsel for the risk solutions business of LexisNexis®. In this role, she is responsible for all legal, compliance and regulatory matters.

Prior to assuming this role, Meredith served as Vice President and Lead Counsel for the Insurance business of LexisNexis, continuing in a similar role she had held since 1999 at ChoicePoint Inc., prior to its acquisition by Reed Elsevier in 2008.

A board member of the Metropolitan Atlanta Chapter of the American Red Cross, Meredith is also active with the Bright Pink organization as a PinkPal, serving as a one-on-one supportive resource for young women at high risk for breast and ovarian cancer.

Meredith holds a BA in history from the University of Michigan, and earned her law degree at the University of Georgia School of Law.  Meredith lives in Atlanta with her husband and two children.

Debbie Atwell

Vice President, Public Records
Risk Solutions

Debbie Atwell is Vice President, Public Records for the risk solutions business of LexisNexis®. In this position, Atwell is responsible for managing the business between the risk and legal business units. This includes leveraging existing solutions and identifying new opportunities that would apply across these two business units.

Prior to joining the risk solutions business, Atwell worked in the legal business in a variety of sales capacities, most recently leading the team who managed the Top 20 Customers for U.S. Legal Markets. She is a ten-time winner of the company's Circle of Excellence sales award, and has been with LexisNexis for 16 years.

Atwell earned her bachelor's degree in Finance from Baldwin Wallace College and graduated Magna Cum Laude, and attended business school at John Carroll University in Cleveland.