COMPANY

Book publisher (Penguin), with some newspaper interests, including Financial Times.

Official Website:
http://www.pearson.com/

Industry:
Publisher

Ticker:
LSE:PSON

Corporate headquarters:
London, England

Sales:
$2.48B (2006)

Employees:
34,000

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
David Bell	Business	?		CEO of Financial Times Group, 1993-2005
William T. Ethridge	Business	c. 1952		CEO, Pearson's Educational Publishing
Rona Fairhead	Business	c. 1962		CEO of Financial Times Group
Olivier Fleurot	Business	?		Executive Chairman, Publicis
Robin Freestone	Business	c. 1959		CFO of Pearson
Caspar Hobbs	Business	1969		Mergermarket Group
Philip J. Hoffman	Business	c. 1956		EVP Corporate Finance of Pearson
John Makinson	Business	?		Chairman & CEO, Penguin Group
Marjorie Scardino	Business	25-Jan-1947		CEO of Pearson

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
David Arculus	Business	1946		Chairman of Severn Trent, 1998-2004
David Bell	Business	?		CEO of Financial Times Group, 1993-2005
Terence Burns	Business	13-Mar-1944		Chairman of Marks & Spencer
Patrick Cescau	Business	1948		Group Chief Executive of Unilever
Rona Fairhead	Business	c. 1962		CEO of Financial Times Group
Robin Freestone	Business	c. 1959		CFO of Pearson
Susan Fuhrman	Educator	c. 1943		President, Teachers College, Columbia
Ken Hydon	Business	1944		Finance Director of Vodafone, 1985-2005
John Makinson	Business	?		Chairman & CEO, Penguin Group
Glen Moreno	Business	1943		Chairman of Pearson
Marjorie Scardino	Business	25-Jan-1947		CEO of Pearson

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Reuben Mark	Business	21-Jan-1939		CEO of Colgate-Palmolive, 1984-2007
Dennis Stevenson	Business	19-Jul-1945		Chairman of HBOS

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