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Sharon T. Rowlands - Altegrity, Chief Executive Officer
Sharon T. Rowlands is Chief Executive Officer of Altegrity, Inc., the global risk and security solutions company, with approximately 10,500 employees in locations around the world. Altegrity is the holding company for USIS, Kroll and HireRight. Ms. Rowlands is based in the business’ New York City offices.
From 2008 to 2011, Ms. Rowlands was the CEO of Penton Media, Inc., the largest independent business-to-business media company in the U.S., serving the information needs of more than 6 million business professionals every month in industries ranging from agriculture and aviation to electronics, natural products and information technology. Under her tenure, Ms. Rowlands led growth initiatives that included developing the company’s digital and marketing services offerings through the acquisition of a digital marketing services agency, EyeTraffic Media, and accelerated investment in the company’s digital solutions infrastructure.
From 1996 to 2008, Ms. Rowlands worked for Thomson Financial in a variety of positions, including President and CEO from 2005 to 2008. As President and CEO, Ms. Rowlands led the direction and development of the corporation’s strategy to accelerate growth and be seen as a business partner to the global security industry. During her leadership, the company introduced the leading-edge platform Thomson ONE, the creation of a multi-asset global trading platform for the over-the-counter market through the acquisition of Tradeweb and partnership with 10 leading investment banks; formed the leading global straight-through processing services provider, Omgeo, in partnership with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation; and completed numerous other acquisitions as well. In terms of growth and profitability, Ms. Rowlands advanced the company’s efficiency at allocating capital under its control (ROIC) from the low single digits to 13 percent, generating approximately $450 million in profit on $2.2 billion in revenue.
From 2000 to 2005, Ms. Rowlands served as the corporation’s Global President and Chief Operating Officer. In that role, she developed a strategy which guided Thomson Financial’s transformation from 45 disparate corporate entities to a leading global financial information and technology provider serving thousands of global companies. She integrated the organization and aligned it under a common strategy to become one of the top three leading providers of integrated solutions. She was successful in reversing negative sales and margin trends and setting the stage for four years of significant growth in sales and returns, accelerating international business revenues from the low single digits to over 20 percent.
Previously, Ms. Rowlands held executive leadership roles at Financial Times Information (now Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data, Inc.), a leading provider of financial information and analytical software, including service as the Managing Director of Extel Financial, an international stock database provider.
Ms. Rowlands earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Newcastle University upon Tyne in the United Kingdom in 1980 and her master’s degree in Education from the University of London, Goldsmiths College in London in 1982. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Constant Contact and Penton Media, Inc.
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Michael A. Petrullo - President and CEO, HireRight
Michael A. Petrullo is President and CEO of HireRight, the commercial employment screening business of Altegrity that serves more than 30,000 commercial customers in the U.S. and overseas, including more than 25 percent of the Fortune 500.
Mr. Petrullo assumed the role of President and CEO of HireRight in September 2009. He joined the company in March 2009, initially serving as a senior vice president on the Altegrity corporate leadership team, focusing on organic and inorganic growth initiatives to expand the solutions Altegrity provides to its existing customers and to develop new opportunities in both the government and commercial markets. He is a seasoned finance and operations executive with and restructuring experience and an outstanding track record of leadership and accomplishment driving organizational change and development.
Prior to Altegrity, Mr. Petrullo served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of Marsh " McLennan Companies (MMC). There, he helped design a new business model and led restructuring efforts in 2005 that resulted in $650 million of annual cost savings for the company. He developed the strategy for MMC's Operational Excellence Program, which resulted in $350 million of annual cost savings from leveraging best practices companywide in the infrastructure and administrative functions. He served on MMC's executive committee and was the chairman of its operating committee.
Prior to that position, he served as chief financial officer for Marsh-Kroll Risk Consulting. During this period, Mr. Petrullo was responsible for several successful acquisition and merger transition efforts, including the successful integration of Kroll, Inc. with MMC and the combination of Marsh's Risk Consulting business into Kroll's operations.
Mr. Petrullo was Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Kroll from May 2002 to July 2004, where he restructured the management of the operating units from a regional-based management system to a product line system. He was the chairman of the operations committee and a member of both the executive and expansion committees. Prior to that, he held positions of increasing responsibility with the company, beginning with his arrival at Kroll Associates in 1995 as Assistant Controller. From 1990 to 1995, he served as a member of the audit and assurance practice and forensic accounting practice of KPMG, Peat Marwick, LLP.
Mr. Petrullo earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Pace University in New York.
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Peter L. Masanotti — CEO and President, USIS
Peter L. Masanotti is CEO and President of US Investigations Services, Inc. (USIS). USIS is the largest commercial provider of background investigations to the federal government and provides a wide range of specialized solutions in training and law enforcement, records management, litigation support and infrastructure protection to high-profile government customers including multiple federal, state and local government agencies.
Mr. Masanotti, who joined USIS in November 2011, has significant experience in a number of industries including telecommunications, financial management in Business Process Outsourcing services, accounting and finance, Internet-enabled business services and health care.
Prior to USIS, Mr. Masanotti was CEO and President of MedQuist, a leading provider of clinical documentation software and services that has more than 14,000 employees worldwide. While there, he developed market-leading technology and service strategies to enable the organization to succeed in a highly competitive market and led the effort that resulted in a successful Initial Public Offering in January 2011.
Previously, Mr. Masanotti was Managing Director, Global Head of Business Process Outsourcing with Deutsche Bank and was responsible for managing all offshore labor and vendors providing services to the investment banking platform in the areas of document production and analytics. From 2005 to 2007, he was CEO and Executive Vice President of OfficeTiger LLC, a judgment-based knowledge process outsourcing firm, servicing major investment banks and Fortune 500 corporations. He was responsible for both onshore and offshore operations of the company, including those in India, Sri Lanka and the Philippines and managed overall day-to-day implementation and delivery of all services to customers.
From 2001 to 2005, he was CEO of Geller & Company, a privately held finance and accounting outsourcing firm. He also held executive positions at Baltimore Technologies Inc., a Dublin, Ireland-based e-security solutions provider, and at International Telecommunication Data Systems, Inc., a leading billing and customer care solutions provider to the wireless telecommunications industry. Mr. Masanotti began his career at the law firm of Kleban & Samor P.C., where he was a managing partner.
Mr. Masanotti is a graduate (cum laude) of Temple University of Law in Philadelphia and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics (magna cum laude) from the University of Connecticut-Storrs. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Advanced Health Media, LLC.
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William J. Bratton - Chairman, Kroll
William J. Bratton is Chairman of Kroll, one of Altegrity, Inc.’s three core businesses. Prior to the acquisition of Kroll in August 2010, Mr. Bratton served as Chairman of Altegrity Risk International, which is now part of the Kroll business unit. Kroll is the world’s leading risk consulting company, providing a broad range of investigative, intelligence, financial, due diligence, security and technology services to help clients reduce risks, solve problems and capitalize on opportunities.
Mr. Bratton joined Altegrity in November 2009 after serving as Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for seven years. He is known as one of America’s premier police chiefs, the only person to have led two of the largest police forces in the United States, the New York City Police Department and the LAPD.
As Chief of the New York City Transit Police, Boston Police Commissioner, New York City Police Commissioner and Chief of the LAPD, Mr. Bratton revitalized police morale and cut crime significantly in all four posts. In New York, he led the development and deployment of CompStat, which has revolutionized policing all over the world. CompStat employs accurate, real-time intelligence, rapid deployment of resources and relentless follow-up and accountability systems to focus the work of police on stopping crimes before they happen. In Los Angeles, in addition to significantly driving down crime, he is also credited with improving the LAPD's relationships with the city’s many diverse communities.
In 1999, before returning to public service in 2002 as Chief of the LAPD, Mr. Bratton formed his own company, The Bratton Group LLC, consulting on safety and security throughout the United States and on four continents, including extensive work in South America.
A frequent lecturer, writer and commentator in the fields of security, counterterrorism, law enforcement and rule of law justice systems, Mr. Bratton is Vice Chairman of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, whose members provide advice and recommendations on a variety of homeland security issues to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He also serves on the Motorola Solutions Board of Directors.
The recipient of many honors throughout his career, Mr. Bratton was most recently named by Security magazine as one of 2010’s most influential people in the security industry based on his leadership qualities and the positive impact that his work has made on organizations, colleagues and the general public. This is the second time in two years that he has appeared on the magazine’s list of most influential security executives. In 2009, Mr. Bratton was recognized by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II with the honorary title of Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE).
A U.S. Army veteran who saw service in Vietnam, Mr. Bratton began his police career in 1970 as an officer with the Boston Police Department. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Boston State College and is a graduate of the FBI National Executive Institute and the Senior Executive Fellows Program at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. His critically acclaimed autobiography “Turnaround” was published by Random House in 1998.
Mr. Bratton and Zachary Tumin, a senior researcher at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, have co-authored a management leadership book, “Collaborate or Perish” that was published by Random House in January 2012.
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J. Philip Casey - President and CEO, Kroll
J. Philip Casey is the President and CEO of Kroll, one of the world’s leading risk consulting companies.
Mr. Casey most recently served as Chairman of Altegrity’s Commercial Services Group, which includes HireRight, Explore and Kroll Factual Data. Mr. Casey joined Altegrity when Explore Information Services was acquired in late 2005. He had led Explore since 1998 after starting there as the Director of Sales and Marketing in 1995.
Before coming to Explore, Mr. Casey served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing with Primenet Data Systems, Inc. from 1994 to 1995 and held a similar position with Jordan Industries, Inc. from 1991 to 1993. He was with Lifetouch, Inc. from 1984 to 1991, starting as Vice President Market Development — Senior Division and advancing to Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer — Senior Division in 1987. Prior to 1984, Mr. Casey held senior marketing and sales positions with Official Airline Guidelines, Inc. and American Airlines.
Mr. Casey has more than 30 years of experience in sales, marketing and general management senior leadership positions. Mr. Casey has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from Bethany College and a Master of Business Administration degree from Northwestern University.
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Dean J. Hager - President and CEO, Kroll Ontrack
Dean Hager serves as president and CEO of Kroll Ontrack, Inc., the leading provider of data recovery, electronic discovery, and information management services and software worldwide. In his role, Mr. Hager is accountable for advancing the strategic vision of Kroll Ontrack and growing the company's business lines through continued investments in technology innovation and service enhancement.
Mr. Hager holds extensive executive experience with more than 20 years in the software industry, leading teams across all functional disciplines. He served 14 years with Lawson Software, Inc., most recently as executive vice president of S3 Industries. In this role, Mr. Hager had accountability for revenue, operations and strategic direction. He joined Lawson in 1998 and thereafter held leadership roles across various groups, including marketing, product strategy and emerging markets. His broad professional background has given him a deep understanding of business solutions spanning many industries, including healthcare, education, government, financial services, professional services, retail, distribution and manufacturing. Further, Mr. Hager holds significant global experience having led organizations across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Prior to joining Lawson, Mr. Hager was employed by IBM for nine years, where he gained comprehensive technical knowledge serving in several management capacities and received several U.S. patents and achievement awards and in his tenure.
Mr. Hager earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota and a Master of Arts degree in Management from St. Mary’s College in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Jeffrey S. Campbell - Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Jeffrey Campbell is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Altegrity. Mr. Campbell's responsibilities include financial planning and reporting; investor relations; treasury; risk management; financial control; tax and information systems.
Prior to joining Altegrity in May 2010, Mr. Campbell served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Alpharma Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company. During his tenure as CFO of Alpharma, from 2006 to 2009, Mr. Campbell played a key role in establishing and driving a new strategic direction for the company and led several complex financial negotiations and transactions, both in the US and internationally. This culminated with Mr. Campbell helping to lead the company through a hostile tender offer and negotiating a final cash tender price that represented a significant premium to stakeholders. He joined Alpharma in 2002 as Vice President, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer, and was promoted to Vice President, Finance in 2005.
Mr. Campbell joined Alpharma after serving for over 15 years with Ingersoll-Rand, a global diversified industrial company. During his tenure there, Mr. Campbell served as Assistant Corporate Controller with enterprise-wide responsibility for financial planning and analysis, as Vice President Finance and Controller of the Bobcat compact equipment business, and as General Auditor/Director, Internal Audit for the company. Mr. Campbell began his professional career with Price Waterhouse LLP, where he served as Audit Manager.
Mr. Campbell serves on the Rogers Group Inc. (RGI) Board of Directors. RGI is the seventh largest crushed stone producer in the United States and provides quality construction aggregates and road construction services in seven states.
Mr. Campbell, a Certified Public Accountant, received his MBA from the Rutgers Graduate School of Management and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Rutgers College.
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David R. Fontaine - Senior Vice President and General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
David Fontaine serves as Senior Vice President and General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Mr. Fontaine is responsible for providing legal counsel, managing legal services, directing regulatory compliance, and overseeing professional integrity and business ethics for Altegrity and its affiliates.
Prior to joining the company in January 2009, Mr. Fontaine served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), and Corporate Secretary for Ruesch International, Inc., a provider of global payment services, where since January 2005 he was responsible for managing all of the corporation's legal and regulatory affairs. As CAO, he had oversight responsibility for the corporation's administrative functions, including human resources, compliance, internal audit, facilities, and risk management.
Mr. Fontaine joined Ruesch International after serving as Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Risk Officer, and Corporate Secretary of American Management Systems, Inc. (AMS) from July 2002 to June 2004. For more than two years, Mr. Fontaine directed the corporation's legal affairs, including the sale of the company to CGI and CACI, Inc. He also developed and implemented procedures and policies to mitigate AMS' overall risk exposure.
Before joining AMS, Mr. Fontaine was Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Dimension Data, NA (successor to Proxicom, Inc.) from June 1999 to July 2002, where he built a legal team and centralized the legal affairs of several U.S.-based operating companies. While at Proxicom, he served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel. In this role, Mr. Fontaine managed the company's legal affairs on a global basis, including the sale of the company to Dimension Data.
Mr. Fontaine previously served as a litigation partner at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Miller, Cassidy, Larroca and Lewin, LLP, practicing in the areas of white-collar defense and commercial litigation. Prior to his years in private practice, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Stanley Sporkin, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and later as a law clerk to the Honorable Thomas Meskill, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Mr. Fontaine earned his law degree from Yale Law School in New Haven, Conn., and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. He is admitted to the legal practice in Connecticut, the District of Columbia, and Virginia.
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Barbara M. Nieto - Senior Vice President, Human Resources
Barbara Nieto has served as the Senior Vice President of Human Resources since September 2008, transitioning from HireRight. She joined HireRight in February 2005 as Director of Human Resources and became Vice President of Human Resources in April 2006.
From June 2002 to January 2005, Ms. Nieto served as Senior Director of Human Resources for Skyworks Solutions, a wireless semiconductor company that was spun-off from Conexant Systems Inc., and prior to that she served as Executive Director of Human Resources for Conexant Systems from May 2000 to June 2002. She was Human Resources Manager for the Southern California and Nevada divisions of Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. from 1998 to 2000. Her experience prior to that time includes 12 years at McDonnell Douglas Corp. and its successor, Boeing Co., where she held various positions in operations and human resources.
Ms. Nieto earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and a Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School. She was a finalist for the 2007 Orange County HR Executive of the Year award and winner of the Customer-Focused Leadership award. Ms. Nieto is also a member of the California Bar.
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Michael W. John - Senior Vice President, Corporate Communication
and Creative Services
Michael John is Senior Vice President of Corporate Communication and Creative Services, reporting to Sharon Rowlands, Altegrity CEO. Mr. John is responsible for the planning and execution of all external and internal public relations activities for the company and its affiliates as well as leading the creative services branch that provides graphic design, marketing collateral, trade show and meeting support, and advertising design and production for the corporation and its three businesses.
Mr. John's background includes extensive experience in media relations, financial communications, public affairs, internal communications, and community relations-corporate social responsibility activities in both the government and private sectors. He served as a public relations officer for the U.S. Navy and retired from active duty in December 1997 after completing more than 21 years of service and achieving the rank of Captain.
His many high-profile assignments in the Navy included speechwriting for several high-level elected government officials, several members of Congress, and key cabinet members in two administrations; serving as the chief communications counsel and advisor to more than 10 admirals who led major Navy commands and leading public relations and communications teams at the Naval Air Force, Atlantic Fleet, U.S. Naval Academy, Bureau of Naval Personnel, and the Mediterranean-based U.S. Sixth Fleet. Mr. John also headed up public affairs and communication efforts for naval units on station in the Adriatic Sea during the deployment phases of the NATO-led peace implementation force in Bosnia.
Following his naval career, Mr. John moved into the private sector. For the Entergy Corporation in New Orleans, La., he led overseas public relations activities in China, Australia, and the United Kingdom. At Wisconsin Energy in Milwaukee, Wis., he directed media relations and supported financial-shareholder communications, and later served as the communications lead, public affairs advisor, and local community liaison for the corporation's power plant siting and construction initiatives. Most recently, he led the external and internal communications function at Menasha Corporation, one of the nation's oldest private companies and largest privately held manufacturing companies.
Mr. John earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Relations from the University of Southern California and a Master of Arts degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University. He is active in community service organizations and serves on the boards of several historic preservation associations. He also serves on the Advisory Board for Christopher Newport University’s Center for American Studies.
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Glenn Pinnel - Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Glenn Pinnel is Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Altegrity. Mr. Pinnel’s responsibilities include aligning the company’s IT resources with the firm’s strategic business vision and overseeing a complex IT organization that encompasses multiple business units. He directly supervises corporate-level systems and common elements, such as IT security, ERP systems, IT infrastructure, data center facilities and internal customer support. Mr. Pinnel also facilitates cross-business unit review of technology strategy for products and services supporting the company’s markets.
Prior to joining Altegrity in October 2010, Mr. Pinnel was a principal in GWP Technology Consulting LLC, where he led an order fulfillment and ERP engagement in Denmark. His responsibilities included developing the business strategy for improving delivery, standardizing operational processes, and expanding business systems.
From 1995 to 2009, he worked for Alpharma Inc., a global specialty pharmaceutical company, serving in a variety of leadership positions including the company’s corporate vice president & CIO from 2008 to 2009. As CIO, Mr. Pinnel developed a comprehensive IT Strategic Plan to address IT organization and governance, technology standards, and key project priorities over a three year period. He completed a virtualization initiative which decreased the server hardware footprint by 65 percent and led to a dramatic reduction in both hardware and facility costs to the company. He also established and executed a plan to double the size of the pharmaceuticals sales force based on a product acquisition. He implemented systems, deployed equipment, and lowered cost per end user by 23 percent.
Mr. Pinnel received his Bachelor of Science in Finance from Saint Thomas Aquinas College.
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