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Experian

Last Fiscal Year Sales:$3.5B

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Experian is a global leader in providing information, analytical tools and marketing services to organizations and consumers to help manage the risk and reward of commercial and financial decisions. Using our comprehensive understanding of individuals, markets and economies, we help organizations find, develop and manage customer relationships to make their businesses more profitable. Experian promotes greater financial health and opportunity among consumers by enabling them to understand, manage and protect their personal information, helping them control financial aspects of key life events, and make the most advantageous financial and purchasing decisions.

Chief Executive Officer

Don Robert

Number of Employees 17,499

Contact Information

475 Anton Blvd

Costa Mesa, California 92626

www.experian.co...

(714) 830-7000

Peer Companies

NAICS Code All Other Information Services: 519190

Recent Events

FICO loses credit score trademark fight

11/20/09 - Lawsuit Filed - View Story
UPDATE 1-Experian H1 climbs, sees revenue growth in H2

11/18/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story
Experian Launches Credit Risk Products

11/13/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Experian Introduces Products That Help Lenders Determine Consumers' "Ability to Pay"

11/12/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Blocking Google Could Cost WSJ.com 25% of Traffic

11/10/09 - Security Breach - View Story
Experian QAS Announced Integrated with Salesforce CRM ASCAP Deployment

10/27/09 - Licensing / Contract - View Story
STOCKS NEWS UK-Petrofac falls on profit taking after update

10/22/09 - Bond / Stock Rating - View Story
Minor growth returns to retail and information

10/14/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story
Experian Rolls Out New Collections Product--Tallyman

10/07/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
'Free Credit Score' Company Tries To Unmask Anonymous Blogger; Sues Wikipedia

9/19/09 - Merger / Acquisition - View Story
Bank Systems & Technology Examines Workforce Optimization

7/09/09 - Product Announcement - View Story
Ruling hampers ID theft-protection firms

6/07/09 - Lawsuit Filed - View Story

News & Analysis

argos and experian - All News and Analysis

Mixed fortunes for former GUS

- 2006-10-10

Shares in Experian rose as much as 8 per cent on their first day of trading yesterday, as the credit rating group was finally demerged from its parent company, GUS. The remaining business, which owns the Argos and Homebase stores, changed its name to the Home Retail Group. Experian ended...

Tags: Argos, Experian, Home Retail Group Plc.
GUS gives investors details of Burberry demerger

- 2005-11-18

GUS, the UK retail and services group, finally unveiled details of its long-anticipated demerger of the fashion company Burberry yesterday. Shareholders will receive 305 Burberry shares and 859 new GUS shares next month for every 1,000 old ones they own. The move, which is...

Tags: Argos, Burberry Ltd., Experian
Burberry sale starts GUS break-up with Argos to follow

- 2005-05-26

The fate of GUS was sealed yesterday after the conglomerate unveiled plans to demerge its remaining majority stake in Burberry and sever Argos Retail Group from Experian, its financial services business. Although the former Great Universal Stores group promised to hand its 66 per cent stake in...

Tags: Argos, Burberry Ltd., Experian
OUTLOOK: GUS joins the fashion for focus in doing the splits, but is

- 2005-05-26

For a world which is meant to have fallen out of love with conglomerates, and instead requires managements to 'focus' on their 'core competences', it is interesting to reflect on the fact that the world's biggest company by market capitalisation, and one of its most successful to boot, GE of...

Tags: Argos, Burberry Ltd., Experian, General Electric Co.
British retailer GUS to demerge Burberry group

- 2005-05-25

LONDON AFP — British retail group GUS announced it planned to demerge its 66 percent stake in luxury goods group Burberry later this year to existing shareholders, alongside news of steady annual profits. The company also disclosed its intention to separate the retail division, which includes catalogue retailer Argos...

Tags: Argos, Burberry Group Plc., Burberry Ltd., Experian, GUS

OUTLOOK: Is no one immune as Argos stumbles?

- 2005-04-15

Another chief executive under pressure to 'do something' to satisfy investor appetite for short-term gain is John Peace at GUS. Fortunately for him, he's done fantastically well with all four of his main businesses in recent years " Argos, Homebase, Burberry and Experian. Yet the wolves are at his door...

Tags: Argos, Burberry Ltd., Experian
British retailer Gus reports six-month pretax profits up 15 percent.

- 2004-11-19

By Ian Lyall, Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 19--Argos owner GUS shrugged off the gloom shrouding the retail sector to weigh in with forecast-busting interim profits. But the group -- whose stable also includes Experian and Burberry ...

Tags: Argos, Burberry Ltd., Experian, Gus
U.K. Conglomerate GUS Hands Back UKpound 200 Million, Considers Options.

- 2004-05-25

By Fiona Walsh, Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 25--Retail and financial conglomerate GUS is handing back UKpound 200 million to shareholders and says it will "review all strategic options" for the group over the next two years. ...

Tags: Argos, Burberry Ltd., Experian
GUS keen to dispel anti-banking myth.

- 2003-07-20

Byline: Alice Hohler GUS has recently become the highest-profile example of "large UK corporates that prefer not to use investment banks". When the retail and consumer services group sold its home shopping business to the Barclay brothers for [pounds sterling]590m ([euro]844m) this year, ...

Tags: Argos, Burberry Ltd., Experian
GUS ponders restructuring with sale of Experian

- 2003-05-29

RETAIL GROUP GUS, which controls Argos and the Burberry luxury goods brand, hinted it may spin off its Experian financial information division yesterday as it unveiled plans to seek a partial stock market flotation of its South African retail business. The moves represent a continuation of the...

Tags: Argos, Burberry Ltd., Experian

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Decision Makers

Name (plus bio)	Position
Don Robert	Chief Executive Officer
Victor Nichols	Chief Executive Officer, UK & EMEA
Chris Callero	President & Chief Operating Officer
Kerry Williams	Group President, Experian Credit Services & Decision Analytics, North America
Paul Brooks	Chief Financial Officer
Michael A. DeVico	Executive Vice President, Experian North America
Kim Hosmer	Senior VP of Corporate Marketing
Joseph M. Paulsen	Senior Vice President & General Manager, Integrated Marketing Services Unit
Charlotte Hogg	Managing Director, Experian UK and Ireland
Elio Vitucci	Managing Director, Experian Decision Analytics
Francisco Valim	Managing Director, Experian Latin America
Ken Sansom	Managing Director, Experian Asia Pacific
Nigel Fine	Managing Director, EMEA
Phil Cotter	Managing Director, Information Solutions
Richard Fiddis	Managing Director, Emerging Markets Dev.
Rick Gallagher	Managing Director, Emerging Markets Group
Tony Pullen	Managing Director, Business Information Division, Nottingham, UK
Vikram Narayan	Managing Director, India

Board of Directors

Name (plus bio)	Position
John W. Peace	Chairman
Alan W. Jebson	Board of Directors
David Tyler	Board of Directors
Fabiola Arredondo	Board of Directors
Laurence Danon	Board of Directors
Roger Davis	Board of Directors
Sir Alan Rudge	Board of Directors

Organization	Position	Status
Experian	Chief Executive Officer	Current
First Advantage Corporation	Board of Directors	Current
First Advantage's Litigation	Director	Current
Internet Tax Group	Director	Current
Compass Group Plc	Board of Directors	Current
Backtrack Reports	Director	Current
Experian	Board of Directors	Current
GUS plc	Board of Directors	Current
Experian	Chief Executive Officer, North America	Former
First American Corporate	President, Consumer Information & Services Group	Former
Credco	President	Former
First American Corporate	Executive Vice President, Mortgage Origination Services	Former
The First American Corporation	Group Executive	Former
Oregon State University	B.A. Business Administration	Former
Oregon State University	degree in Business Administration	Former
Chapman University	member	Former

Organization	Position	Status
Experian	Chief Executive Officer, UK & EMEA	Current

Organization	Position	Status
Experian	President & Chief Operating Officer	Current
Experian	CEO, Experian America	Former
Experian	President, Credit Services Business	Former
Bank of America Corporation	Group Executive Vice President	Former

Organization	Position	Status
Erisk	President of Erisk	Current
Experian	Group President, Experian Credit Services & Decision Analytics, North America	Current

Organization	Position	Status
Experian	Chief Financial Officer	Current
Experian	Board of Directors	Current
Experian	Finance Director, Experian International	Former
Inchcape PLC	Marketing Services Finance Director	Former
Cambridge University	B.A. Economics	Former

Organization	Position	Status
Experian	Executive Vice President, Experian North America	Current
Federal Home Loan Bank Seattle	Board of Directors	Current
Zions Bancorporation	Executive Vice President, Operations & Info Sys	Former
St. John's University		Former

Organization	Position	Status
Experian	Senior VP of Corporate Marketing	Current
First Data Corporation	Vice President, N.America Money Transfer Unit	Former
First Data Corporation	Vice President, Global Marketing	Former

Organization	Position	Status
Experian	Senior Vice President & General Manager, Integrated Marketing Services Unit	Current
Fair Isaac Corporation	Vice President, Marketing	Former

Organization	Position	Status
Experian	Managing Director, Experian UK and Ireland	Current

Organization	Position	Status
Experian	Managing Director, Experian Decision Analytics	Current
Experian	Managing Director, Experian-Scorex EMEA	Former

Organization	Position	Status
Experian	Managing Director, Experian Latin America	Current

Organization	Position	Status
Experian	Managing Director, Experian Asia Pacific	Current
Experian	Chief Operating Officer, Asia Pacific	Former
National University of Singapore	MBA	Former
UCLA Anderson School of Management	MBA	Former

Organization	Position	Status
Experian	Managing Director, EMEA	Current
Experian	Chief Operating Officer, ROW	Former
Andersen Consulting	Associate Partner, Business Process Outsourcing Solutions, EMEA	Former
London Business School	MBA	Former
Manchester University	B.S. Civil Engineering	Former

Organization	Position	Status
Experian	Managing Director, Information Solutions	Current

Organization	Position	Status
Experian	Managing Director, Emerging Markets Dev.	Current
Experian	Chief Operating Officer, UK	Former
Marcam Corporation	European Vice President, Sales and Marketing	Former
Lorien plc	Group Managing Director	Former
Experian	Managing Director, UK, Ireland & Northern Europe	Former

Organization	Position	Status
Experian	Managing Director, Emerging Markets Group	Current

Organization	Position	Status
Experian	Managing Director, Business Information Division, Nottingham, UK	Current
Equifax Inc.	European Strategic Finance Officer	Former

Organization	Position	Status
Experian	Managing Director, India	Current
GE Commercial Finance	SVP & business head India-Commercial Vehicles & Construction Equipment Finance	Former

Organization	Position	Status
Nottingham Trent University	Chairman	Current
Standard Chartered plc	Chairman	Current
Experian	Chairman	Current
Burberry Group plc	Chairman	Current
The Campaign for Leadership	Board of Directors	Current
GUS plc	Board of Directors	Current
The First American Corporation	Board of Directors	Current
GUS plc	CEO	Former
Standard Chartered plc	Board of Directors	Former
The Work Foundation	Board of Directors	Former
The Work Foundation	Chairman	Current

Alan Jebson retired in May 2006 from his role as Group Chief Operating Officer of HSBC Holdings plc, a position which included responsibility for IT and Global Resourcing. During a long career with HSBC, Alan held various positions in IT, including the position of Group CIO. His roles included responsibility for the Group’s international systems, including the consolidation of HSBC and Midland systems following the acquisition of Midland Bank in 1993. Alan originally joined HSBC as Head of IT Audit in 1978 where, building upon his qualification as a chartered accountant, he built an international audit team and implemented controls in the Group’s application systems. He is also a non-executive director MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. in Canada and Experian Group plc.

Organization	Position	Status
Experian	Board of Directors	Current
Vodafone Group Plc	Board of Directors	Current
HSBC Holdings plc	COO	Former
HSBC Holdings plc	CIO	Former
HSBC Holdings plc	Board of Directors	Former

Organization	Position	Status
Unilog Management		Current
Logica Plc.	Chairman	Current
Burberry Group plc	Board of Directors	Current
Reckitt Benckiser plc	Board of Directors	Current
Experian	Board of Directors	Current
Christies International Plc	President, Christie's America	Former
Christies International Plc	Finance Director	Former
Lewis Group, Inc.	non-executive director	Former
Unilever Plc		Former
LogicaCMG plc	Deputy Chairman	Former
Joint Co	Deputy Chairman	Former
Logica Plc.	Board of Directors	Former
GUS plc	Board of Directors	Former
Cambridge University	B.A. Economics	Former

Organization	Position	Status
World Wildlife Fund, Inc.	Managing Partner, Siempre Holdings	Current
Boc Limited		Current
Bankinter, S.A.	Board of Directors	Current
World Wildlife Fund, Inc.	Board of Directors	Current
Sesame Workshop	Board of Directors	Current
Experian	Board of Directors	Current
Harvard Business School	MBA	Former
Stanford University	B.A.	Former