About Rob Docters

ROB DOCTERS is Partner at Abbey Road, LLP, and leads their ethics practice. He is a former Senior Partner, Ernst & Young Canada; a former Lecturer in Management, Yale University School of Management; and led BCG’s Asia/Pacific pricing practice, based in Singapore. He is a member of the New York Bar.

He was formerly Head of Market Innovation and Development at Bloomberg, LP, focused on the vertical markets. And previously a senior member of McKinsey & Company's Marketing and Sales practice.

As Chief Strategist and Head of Pricing at LexisNexis, he was part of the senior team credited with the turn-around of that company by the Wall Street Journal.

Operating experience includes running consulting practices at E&Y and Abbey, LLP, and being shadow CMO of Telcel at startup (now worth $35B), and Market Manager of a $250M/year segment at Verizon.

HANS GIESKES has been the turn-around CEO and Chairman of companies in a range of industries, such as information, publishing, data, and professional services. Hans is an active investor and M&A adviser having been involved in over 30 major M&A transactions, two of which are worth more than $1.6 billion.

Relevant professional experience includes:

• OneOcean.com Group (London) – Chairman of world’s largest supplier of digital maritime solutions for fleet owners and on-board compliance management. Successful transformation and divestment.
• Axio Data Group (London) – Chairman. Corporate carve-out and transformation of portfolio of 7 data / content companies. Group was broken up and successfully divested. 
• Cision AB Group – CEO. Led turnaround of this Stockholm Nasdaq listed global market leader in earned media marketing services for the PR industry. 
• Monster.com – President. Helped rationalize and grow the pioneering online recruiting firm.
• Houghton Mifflin – Chairman & CEO. Led $1.6 billion divestment for financially troubled owner.
• LexisNexis Group – CEO. Led transformation from proprietary to internet technologies and core new market developments.
• Elsevier – CEO Elsevier UK and various EVP roles during 11 years with world’s largest leading scientific publisher.