Executive Board

Jonathan Worrall – Chief Executive Officer

Charles E. Miller, Jr. – Chief Financial Officer
Timothy Roche – Chief Information Officer
Paul Starkey – Managing Director, Indxis
John Pedernales – Executive Managing Director
Chris Henry – Managing Director

• Jeff Zazzaro - Managing Director
  

 

Senior Management Committee

Jonathan Worrall – Chief Executive Officer
With over 20 years of experience in the financial information and software marketplace, Mr. Worrall possesses a wealth of knowledge in the industry.  Mr. Worrall became Chief Executive Officer of Mergent in June 2002 after joining Mergent in early 2000 as Managing Director, International Operations.  Mr. Worrall is also Chairman of Ford Equity Research.  Prior to these positions, Mr. Worrall was the Managing Director, Investment Data Products for the Asia Pacific region for BARRA Inc.  He has also held executive management positions at FAME, Randall Helms, Credit Suisse and Helix Technology Group where he focused on sales of financial data products and services.  Mr. Worrall is co-author of the business books “Beating the S&P with Dividends” and of “From Wall Street to the Great Wall” published by John Wiley & Sons. Mr Worrall is an elected member of the Economic Development Board of York County, South Carolina.
Charles E. Miller, Jr. – Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Miller serves as the senior financial officer of the company. This role includes complete financial management, oversight and fiscal control. Mr. Miller became Chief Financial Officer of Mergent in May 2009. Prior to joining Mergent, Mr. Miller served for over 15 years as the CFO of several public and private companies. Mr. Miller's most recent position was as the CFO of OneSource, an $850 million service company listed on the London Stock Exchange. Prior to OneSource, Mr. Miller was the CFO of Sizelar Property Investors, a Real Estate Investment Trust listed on the New York Stock Exchange. He is a CPA and a graduate of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Timothy Roche – Chief Information Officer
Mr. Roche serves as the Chief Information Officer for Mergent, Inc. Mr. Roche is responsible for Mergent's data collection operations, as well as the oversight and implementation of Mergent’s technology strategies.  Before joining Mergent, Mr. Roche was Vice President of Administration at the Industrial Bank of Japan, Ltd. (IBJ), one of the ten largest banks in the world at the time. He established the technology group at its Chicago Branch and focused on introducing new technologies to IBJ globally. Before IBJ, Mr. Roche was a Senior Financial Analyst at The Balcor Company, a real estate syndication firm. He earned his MBA in finance / international business from DePaul University and his BBA in finance at the University of Iowa.

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Paul Starkey – Managing Director, Indxis
Mr. Starkey has been the driving force behind the creation of Indxis and is responsible for the company's daily operations. Mr. Starkey was formerly Managing Director, Global Strategy for Mergent Inc. and also Managing Director of Kinetic Information System Services Limited. Before joining Mergent Inc. in January 2003 Mr. Starkey was Commercial Director of Synergy Software Solutions Ltd., a UK based financial analysis solution provider. Mr. Starkey has also held senior positions within corporate finance and stock broking institutions and has numerous associated qualifications.

John Pedernales – Executive Managing Director
Mr. Pedernales serves as the managing director of equity research, which is responsible for developing global equity research products and services. In addition, he has lead a number of development projects that have further enhanced Mergent’s company fundamental database and collection efforts. Mr. Pedernales has progressed through several management positions and has contributed greatly to the expansion of Mergent’s global presence in the financial market place. This has been accomplished by opening offices for collection and analysis globally. He currently sits on the board of directors for Mergent Japan K.K. Mr. Pedernales received a dual Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Chris Henry – Managing Director
Mr. Henry is responsible for Mergent's client service group, global corporate actions, dividend and end-of-day pricing data. His market data career began in 1993 with Moody’s Investors Service, where he managed the North American Equity & Fixed Income corporate actions division. In 1999, Mr. Henry advanced and managed the Quality Assurance division for both dividends and corporate actions data. Mr Henry holds a BA in Marketing from Winthrop University.