Accelerating its growth strategy
LONDON, July 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Clarivate
Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global leader in providing trusted
information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation,
today announced important changes to its senior leadership team and
is pleased to welcome two new executives to the company.
Steen Lomholt-Thomsen will
join on August 2 in the newly created
position of Chief Revenue Officer and Jaspal (Jas) Chahal joins today as Chief
Legal Officer and General Counsel. Gordon Samson, currently Clarivate head of
APAC, will step into the role of President, IP Group effective
immediately. Steve
Hartman, General Counsel and Head of Corporate
Development, and Jeff Roy,
President, IP Group have stepped down to pursue opportunities
outside Clarivate.
"This is a transformative time for Clarivate as we integrate our
recent acquisitions and build on our combined industry-leading
technology and globally recognized brands. Steen, Jas and Gordon
are accomplished, forward thinking and goal-oriented executives
whose leadership has resulted in significant growth in their
previous roles," said Jerre Stead,
Chairman and CEO, Clarivate. "The addition of these executives
further strengthens our ability to innovate for customers and
capitalize on attractive growth opportunities as we create new
products and services for our customers, a great place to work for
our colleagues and incremental value for our
shareholders."
"On behalf of all our colleagues, I want to thank Steve and Jeff
for their many contributions to Clarivate. We wish them well with
their future endeavors."
Since going public in May 2019,
Clarivate has grown rapidly through both organic growth and a
series of strategic acquisitions, including Decision Resources
Group (DRG), CPA Global and, subject to customary closing
conditions, the proposed acquisition of ProQuest announced on May
17.
In recent months, it has laid out a multi-year strategy to bring
together its wide range of leading information, data and services
into an integrated suite of solutions to address the compelling
needs of its customers to be able to make data-informed, fact-based
decisions with confidence. Clarivate is now introducing several
strategic changes to its executive leadership team that will
accelerate this transformation and deliver faster benefits to both
customers and investors.
Steen Lomholt-Thomsen, in
the new role of Chief Revenue Officer, will lead the revenue and
customer engagement strategy with a focus on revenue growth and
customer delight. Steen is a seasoned sales and business leader
with a proven track record for growing revenue as well as building
and coaching world-class teams. He brings over 25 years' experience
in global sales leadership and organizational transformation having
previously held positions with IBM, HP, IHS Markit and most
recently, AVEVA.
Jas Chahal is an
accomplished lawyer and brings over 25 years of corporate,
commercial and legal experience gained working for a range of
diverse industries and US-listed information services companies. As
Clarivate grows in both size and complexity, it will benefit from
her deep experience in commercial transactions, M&A, employment
and compliance law. Prior to joining Clarivate, Jas held
various General Counsel roles at Brunel University London, IHS
Markit and Acxiom Corp and most recently, Sabre Corp.
Gordon Samson has
already added tremendous value to Clarivate, helping to transform
the strategy and structure of the company's APAC region. In his new
role as President of the IP Group, he will accelerate the
integration of CPA Global and align the IP products and services
into a connected, end-to-end proposition that helps customers
strategically protect and manage their intellectual property.
Gordon joined Clarivate from CPA Global in October 2020 and has a long and successful track
record of driving organizational transformation in the IP industry
and beyond.
About Clarivate
Clarivate™ is a global leader in
providing solutions to accelerate the lifecycle of innovation. Our
bold mission is to help customers solve some of the world's most
complex problems by providing actionable information and insights
that reduce the time from new ideas to life-changing inventions in
the areas of science and intellectual property. We help customers
discover, protect and commercialize their inventions using our
trusted subscription and technology-based solutions coupled with
deep domain expertise. For more information, please
visit clarivate.com.
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