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Kurt P. Sanford

President, Global Operations
LexisNexis Group

Kurt Sanford is President, Global Operations for LexisNexis Group since January 2008. He is responsible for overall global oversight and management of product development, editorial and production, customer support and infrastructure.

Previously, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of U.S. Corporate and Public Markets for LexisNexis Group Where he was responsible for LexisNexis U.S. business, government and academic markets encompassing information professionals, corporate and government attorneys, CIOs and strategic planners, as well as other knowledge workers. His organization also included the LexisNexis® Risk & Information Analytics Group that serves the anti-fraud, debt recovery, customer development, intelligence analysis and screening needs of commercial and government customers.

Earlier, Mr. Sanford served as CEO of LexisNexis Asia Pacific and as the Senior Vice President for the LexisNexis Large Law Firm Markets in the United States. He has also held other senior roles with LexisNexis, including strategy and business development. Mr. Sanford previously worked as a consultant for Bain and Company, a global business strategy consulting firm specializing in making companies more valuable. At Bain, he worked with technology, telecommunications, consumer products and financial service firms to develop growth strategies and capabilities. Prior to that, he was a vice president of a diversified financial services firm and also served on active duty in the United States Army as a Captain and member of the Judge Advocate General's Corps.

Mr. Sanford earned an MBA, with distinction, from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and received his JD, with honors, from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts. He also graduated with a BA in Economics from the University of Notre Dame.

Mike Walsh

President and CEO, U.S. Legal Markets (USLM)
CEO, Global Solutions

Mike Walsh is president and CEO of U.S. Legal Markets. Mike, who is located in New York City, joined LexisNexis two years ago as senior vice president, Global Strategy and Business Development. He most recently held the title of senior vice president Large Law markets.

Walsh has a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School. He served as an associate for Weil, Gotshal and Manges in Washington, D.C., and was seconded to General Electric, working on the restructuring of GE India and GE Capital Corporation in France. Walsh also worked at Boston Consulting Group for three years.

Walsh co-founded Infirmation.com, a portal for lawyers comprised of message boards for the legal community, a law firm directory, career advice forum, legal jobs database and job placement service. Infirmation.com became one of the foundations of Findlaw, where Walsh served as vice president of Strategy.

Prior to joining LexisNexis Group, Walsh was director, Strategic Business Development for Home Depot. He was responsible for strategy and business development for Home Depot Supply, the company’s new growth business division.

Judy Vezmar

CEO LexisNexis International

Judy Vezmar is currently Chief Executive Officer of LexisNexis Group International. LexisNexis is a worldwide leader in legal and News & Business information and is a division of the global media group Reed Elsevier plc.

Ms. Vezmar is responsible for LexisNexis business units in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, Canada, Africa and Latin America. Those business units include LexisNexis Butterworths UK, LexisNexis France Juris Classeur and LexisNexis in Poland, Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Canada, South Africa, Argentina, Chile and Mexico. She 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.

Doug Kaplan

CEO, Asia Pacific
LexisNexis Group

Doug Kaplan is Chief Executive Officer of LexisNexis Asia Pacific. He is responsible for developing strategies to expand the adoption of on-line information-based products and services, including e-filing and practice management solutions that further the company’s strong growth in the region.

A 20-year veteran in media and technology in Asia Pacific, Kaplan was previously President, Asia for RealNetworks, where he was responsible for expanding their footprint across the region while driving new consumer product launches in Japan, China, Singapore, Australia, and Korea. Prior to RealNetworks, Kaplan held management positions with technology and information businesses in both the U.S. and Asia, including leadership roles with Fatwire, Divine, Denalii, NetGravity, Nikkei Business Publications, and CMP Asia.

Kaplan is based in Singapore and reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer of LexisNexis Group.

Kaplan has extensive experience working throughout Asia and is bilingual in English and Japanese, with conversational Korean, French and German. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Asian Studies from the University of California (Berkeley).

Barbara J. Cooperman

Global Chief Marketing Officer
LexisNexis Group

Barbara Cooperman is Global Chief Marketing Officer for LexisNexis, leading provider of legal and business information solutions. She is responsible for global marketing strategy, pricing, brand architecture, corporate communications, public relations, Web 2.0 marketing, global accounts, and law schools. Barbara joined LexisNexis in 2008 and is based in New York.

Barbara joined LexisNexis from Elsevier, the world’s leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information, where she was Global Executive Vice President, Market Communications & Corporate Relations since 2005. She started at Elsevier in 2000 as CMO Electronic Publishing and was appointed to Global Chief Marketing Officer in 2001. Previously, Barbara was President of Marketing Matters Ltd., a strategic marketing consultancy; Executive Vice President, Marketing & Merchandising at Dawson Home Fashions; and VP Marketing at Revlon. Barbara has won numerous industry awards for her achievements. She holds a B.A. in economics from Trinity College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Barbara serves on the Board of Trustees of Miss Hall’s School. Previously, she completed two terms as Director on the Boards of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, International Furnishings & Design Association, and the Education Advisory Council to the Guggenheim Museum. Barbara was elected into the International Women's Forum and is a member of the Harvard Club and Harvard Business School Club.

She enjoys traveling to exotic places, hiking and is an avid balletomane.

Ken Thompson

Senior Vice President, Global Chief Legal Officer
LexisNexis Group

As LexisNexis Global Chief Legal Officer, Ken Thompson has transformed the culture of the company's in-house corporate counsel function. In the process, he has taken the office from a distant advisory wing to a legal services organization, trusted by leadership and deeply embedded in the company's day-to-day operations. The result has significantly raised commitment and job satisfaction for the legal team, which rates near the top in employee satisfaction surveys. The reason is simple. Ken's emphasis on a business perspective has enabled the company's lawyers to operate at a much more strategic level-not just as lawyers, but rather as business advisors, free to challenge and ask the right questions.

In 2001, Ken Joined LexisNexis as a partner from a Cincinnati law firm where he had built a substantial practice. At the time, LexisNexis was aggressively moving toward solutions, so Ken came in as Assistant General Counsel managing the LexisNexis Content Acquisition group charged with acquiring the pieces needed to build those solutions. In particular, Ken concentrated in complex content acquisitions, intellectual property issues, and mergers and acquisitions.

Two years later, Ken took over legal Intellectual Property and was promoted to Deputy General Counsel. Several years later, he was again promoted, first to acting Chief Legal Officer, U.S., then, a year ago, to Global Chief Legal Officer. In his role as Global CLO, Ken continues to focus on his core areas of expertise: intellectual property, acquisitions and divestiture, anti-trust, and Internet security issues. Indeed, in line with his security focus, the Chief Security Officer now reports to Ken, overseeing the governance and protection of the vast quantities of information that LexisNexis gathers and stores. Today, as a member of the LexisNexis Group Management Committee, Ken leads and advises at the highest levels of the company. He also remains the principal legal advisor to the LexisNexis Global Chief Executive Officer.

Prior to joining LexisNexis, for more than 15 years, Ken was a partner in a highly respected Cincinnati, Ohio, law firm. Here he rose quickly, taking five years to make partner and only eight to become a member of the executive committee, and all while building a large business, much of it in the technology sector. In the process, Ken was admitted to practice in Ohio and Kentucky. He also came before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the U.S. Tax Court.

Ken is a past chair of the Ohio State Bar Association's Computer and High Technology Law Committee, where he did ground-breaking work on the work-made-for-hire doctrine, as well as the state's white collar computer crime laws, then in their infancy. In addition, Ken is a former member of the Ohio State Bar Association Intellectual Property Section Board of Governors, and a former member of the Ohio State Bar Association's Council of Delegates.

Ken has a B.A. degree from Capital University and a JD from the University of Cincinnati College of Law. His broad expertise makes him an authoritative and highly engaging public speaker on a range of issues: intellectual property, acquisitions and divestitures, anti-trust, and Internet security.

Carolyn Ullerick

Global Chief Financial Officer
LexisNexis Group

Carolyn Ullerick joined LexisNexis as CFO in 2000.  She has successfully focused on revenue and profit drivers to ensure delivery of the company’s goals while driving above-market growth. Ms. Ullerick pushes the boundaries of the traditional CFO role, involving herself in strategy, operations, systems, people issues, and more.

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

Carolyn brings to LexisNexis wide-ranging experience from a number of industries including publishing, media, technology, and packaged goods.  She came to 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, Carolyn 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.

A practiced speaker, Carolyn brings authority to many themes including Creating Performance Cultures, The CFO as Business Partner, Making the M&A Process Work, Women and Numbers, and Investment Sharp Shooting.

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.

James M. Peck

Chief Executive Officer
LexisNexis Risk & Information Analytics Group

James M. Peck is Chief Executive Officer of Risk & Information Analytics Group for the LexisNexis Group. He started with the business unit in March 2004 with responsibility for driving revenue and merging market needs with technology solutions. Peck facilitated the 2004 Seisint acquisition and integration into LexisNexis Risk & Information Analytics Group business unit. Under Peck's leadership, the business unit has achieved consistent double-digit growth and significant margin improvements.

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 as an engineer, then manager and director in building data and operating 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, including Core Terms, Search Advisor, Core Concepts, case law summaries, and legislative linking. 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 earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Dayton in management information systems, and a master's in business administration from The Ohio State University.

Henry Z. Horbaczewski

Senior Vice President, General Counsel
Reed Elsevier Inc.

Henry Z. Horbaczewski is Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Reed Elsevier Inc. Based in New York City, Reed Elsevier Inc. is the principal U.S. subsidiary of the Reed Elsevier group, an international publisher and information services provider for the legal profession, science, business, technology and medicine. Mr. Horbaczewski practices intellectual property, commercial and corporate transactional law. Prior to joining Reed Elsevier, he was a partner at Coudert Brothers in New York City.

Mr. Horbaczewski is a member of the American Bar Association, International Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and admitted to the bars of Massachusetts and New York. He is a member of the ABA Sections on Intellectual Property Law, Business Law and Labor and Employment Law.

Mr. Horbaczewski has written about intellectual property law and spoken to the American Bar Association, the Association of American Publishers, American Business Media and the International Publishers Association about it.

He received his J.D. from Harvard University in 1975; his B.A., magna cum laude, in 1972 from Harvard College, where he was Phi Beta Kappa.
 
 

Carol DiBattiste

Senior Vice President
Privacy, Security, Compliance and Government Affairs
LexisNexis Group

Carol DiBattiste is Senior Vice President (SVP), Privacy, Security, Compliance and Government Affairs for LexisNexis Group (LNG), a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed specifically for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting and academic markets. Within this capacity, she directs all matters relating to Privacy, Security, Compliance and Government Affairs for LexisNexis and reports directly to Andy Prozes, LexisNexis Group Chief Executive Officer.

As SVP for Privacy, she represents LexisNexis on privacy matters, sets privacy policies, directs privacy compliance, conducts privacy outreach and oversees internal and external privacy education and training. As SVP for Security, she oversees LexisNexis Security, including investigations and security compliance. As SVP for Compliance, she oversees the audit program and compliance with policies and regulatory requirements. As SVP for Government Affairs, she oversees LexisNexis strategy relating to policy and legislation.

Carol has held executive positions in both the private and public sectors, including: General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer, ChoicePoint; Deputy Administrator, Transportation Security Administration; Partner, Law Firm of Holland & Knight; Under Secretary, United States Air Force; Deputy U.S. Attorney, United States Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Florida; Director, Executive Office for United States Attorneys; and Principal Deputy General Counsel, United States Navy. Carol also served 20 years on active duty in the United States Air Force.

Currently, Carol serves on the Boards of the National Center for Victims of Crime and the Alpha Security Group Corporation. She is also a trustee for the United States Air Force Academy Falcon Foundation.

Kumsal Bayazit

Senior Vice President
Global Strategy & Business Development

Kumsal Bayazit is Senior Vice President of Global Strategy & Business Development at LexisNexis. Her responsibilities include driving global strategic initiatives and supporting business units in globalization efforts.

Kumsal joined LexisNexis in New York in the Corporate 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. Shortly thereafter, Kumsal assumed responsibilities as Acting Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development covering global strategy and business development.

After two years in the strategy team, Kumsal transferred to LexisNexis UK to assume an operational role where she was in charge of the Large Law segment as well as the solutions portfolio. Her responsibilities included driving the development of new solutions for the UK market, as well as pricing, strategy and business development.

Prior to joining LexisNexis, Kumsal 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.

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

Ian Fraser

Global HR Director
Reed Elsevier

Mr. Fraser joined Reed Elsevier in 2005 as Global HR Director responsible for leading human resources throughout the business. Mr. Fraser is also currently acting as the interim global Senior Vice President, Human Resources for the legal business.

Prior to this he was Group VP Human Resources for BHP Billiton plc which is the world largest mining and metals company employing more than 100,000 worldwide. There he had global responsibility for the HR function, HR shared services, the Group’s offices and property portfolio. Most significantly, during the BHP and Billiton merger, as a member of the integration team he shared responsibility for aligning both organizations and achieving almost US$800m in merger synergies.

Before this, Mr. Fraser was the Human Resources Director for Charter plc which was an international, FTSE50 industrial manufacturing and engineering group employing 15,000 across 82 countries.

His earlier career included other senior HR leadership roles in retailing and the services sector, as well as in consultancy as head of organisation research for the Hay Group and as a senior consultant and psychometrician for Saville and Holdsworth.

Mr. Fraser also spent a significant part of his career in marketing and product development as a software solutions manager for the world’s leading supplier of software and statistical consultancy to the market research industry.

Mr. Fraser has substantial international experience having lived and worked in 4 continents and has a joint M.A. (Hons.) from Edinburgh University in Philosophy & Psychology, a MBA in Finance and International Business from London's City University and is a Chartered Psychologist.

Phil Livingston

Chief Executive Officer, Marketing & Business Solutions

Phil Livingston is the Chief Executive Officer for the Marketing and Business Solutions organization in the U.S., providing online marketing services, website construction and optimization, as well as ratings and lead generation services for the legal industry. His responsibility also includes Lawyers.comSM, 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.

Bob Romeo

Chief Executive Officer, Research & Litigation Solutions

 Bob Romeo joined LexisNexis in December 2008 and is responsible for the Research and Litigation Solutions business 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.