Dow Jones hires O’Melia as CFO

Liz O’Melia

Dow Jones & Co. CEO Almar Latour sent out the following to the personnel:

Crew,

I am psyched to announce that Liz O’Melia will be becoming a member of Dow Jones as chief economic officer starting up on May perhaps 16. She joins us at a distinctive chapter of transition and growth for our business.

Liz will oversee the world-wide finance crew, supporting the company’s strategic eyesight as very well as day-to-working day money routines, and will be responsible for overseeing all features of money reporting and top our critical finance features. She will serve as small business associate to the broader Dow Jones senior management crew.

Liz was CFO of S&P Ratings and is a verified leader in finance and system. Having expended a big section of her job at S&P with a focus on monetary and data companies, she was concerned in the company’s transformation from The McGraw-Hill Providers to S&P World wide. She also held the situation of senior vice president and world-wide treasurer at S&P World-wide. Throughout her vocation at different multinational firms, Liz has pushed small business expansion and benefit development and has supported job advancement for colleagues across many finance teams. Prior to the S&P transition, she experienced major involvement with multimedia and broadcasting, like Television set attributes, through then-McGraw-Hill’s publishing residence enterprise.

Most just lately, as CFO govt lover at Gartner, Liz encouraged CFO consumers at International 1000 organizations and govt companies, partnering with CFOs to advise on vision and system and to support with digital transformation and economic operations.

Through her finance profession, Liz has been an avid reader of The Wall Road Journal and Barron’s and a consumer of other Dow Jones offerings to assistance inform technique and decision-building. With significant acquisition and integration practical experience, Liz is a strategic thinker and is very well positioned to support us create on our mission to give the world’s most dependable journalism, information, info and analytics to help folks make conclusions.

We thank David Kerridge for his exemplary leadership as interim head of finance. He stepped up to lead the functionality by means of a important time in our transformation, together with the preparing and near of our OPIS acquisition and our future Base Chemical substances acquisition. David’s management has been instrumental in positioning us for the long run, and we search forward to his ongoing contributions. David will continue on in his function as SVP FP&A.

Make sure you join me in welcoming Liz to Dow Jones and wishing her accomplishment in this vital function.

Almar