Cision CEO and leadership

Exceptional global leader with extensive experience running Technology and Information Services businesses ranging from early-stage to $1.8B and enterprise business portfolios (to $5.5B), within a larger corporate entity. Known for building customer-centric and execution-focused teams that have diverse and balanced capabilities to ensure success in delivering high-impact growth strategies, either by building, repositioning, or turning around businesses to accelerate revenues and profitability. Strong commercial focus and the proven ability to create and execute on a long-term vision.Track record identifying growth opportunities and strategic acquisitions, scaling businesses, driving simplification and operational excellence, and leading innovation and transformation. Experienced working with corporate boards.⇨ Delivered organic growth strategy for $5.5B revenue Financial business, led the strategic focus on high-growth sectors, resource re-allocation, simplification and execution. Business performance accelerated by 5% in organic growth rate in addition to 6% increase in margin. ⇨ Led the turn-around of the |$1bn FX business, including the transformational and successful acquisition and integration of FXall (FX.N, $625m); a major commercial repositioning and the delivery and rollout of the next-generation FX trading platform to capitalize on evolving customer needs and market structure. Revitalized team culture, accountability, and execution and delivered a step-change improvement in financial performance. ⇨ Built a high performing, global and cross-functional team with a 9% increase in employee engagement and top talent retention rate of 98%.

Prasant Gondipalli is a Chief Financial Officer at Cision and is based in Chicago, Illinois. He has worked as Consultant at FTI Consulting, Associate at EY, and Senior Vice President Portfolio Operations at Platinum Equity. Prasant attended Emory University Goizueta Business School between 2000 and 2004.

Jay Webster is a Chief Product Officer at Cision.

Nicole Guillot is Chief Operating Officer at Cision. Guillot was previously Cision’s President of EMEIA, Canada and LatAm, where she led the strategic direction, financial performance and operational activities across all the regions.

Guillot’s career has taken a cross-functional journey across all areas of business, within the news and information industry. She has served as corporate director and primary representative in Canada since 2016. Previous to Cision’s acquisition of Canada Newswire (via PR Newswire), Guillot was President & CEO of Canada Newswire, a role she began in 2013, following two years as Senior Vice President, Global Products for PR Newswire.

Of particular interest to Guillot is work that transforms the way we distribute and engage with content in the digital environment, with focus on analytics that deliver actionable insights.

Guillot is a graduate of the University of Ottawa and based in Toronto, Ontario.

Tobias Speckbacher is a Chief Technology Officer at Cision and is based in San Francisco, California. He has worked as VP of Engineering Digital Media at Valassis; Systems Engineer at Interliant; and Director, IT and Data Operations at Quova Inc. Tobias attended Hoehere Technische Lehr und Versuchsanstalt Innsbruck Anichstrasse between 1990 and 1995.

GLOBAL BUSINESS STRATEGY • CULTURE TRANSFORMATION • HUMAN CAPITAL SOLUTIONS • LARGE-SCALE CHANGE MANAGEMENT • DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬An innovative, collaborative Senior Human Resources & Operations Executive, expertise includes architecting and leading global HR functions aligned with corporate strategy, including high-impact human capital solutions. Known for lending deft leadership through organizational change, business expansion, and culture evolution efforts. Leverage data analytics and people management strengths to deliver talent management and development strategies that enhance performance and engage diverse, global workforces while bolstering profitability. Played crucial leadership roles in multiple acquisitions and business transformations, including due diligence, M&A integrations, and CEO and leadership transitions.Selected Demonstrated Competencies Across:Strategic HR Leadership | Diversity & Inclusion | Workforce Planning | Talent Management | Talent Development | HR Infrastructure Design | Succession Planning | Culture Transformation | Operations