Rona Fairhead

Overview

Rona Fairhead became a director in June 2002. She was appointed chief executive of the FT Group on June 12, 2006 having previously been chief financial officer of Pearson from June 2002 and was appointed to the Interactive Data Corporation board on 15 February 2007. She had served as deputy finance director of Pearson from October 2001. From 1996 until 2001, she worked at ICI plc, where she served as executive vice president, group control and strategy, and as a member of the executive committee from 1998. Prior to that, she worked for Bombardier Inc. in finance, strategy and operational roles. She is also a non-executive director of HSBC Holdings plc.