Jonathan Gear is President and Chief Operating Officer of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates (IHS CERA), and Senior Vice President of IHS Inc., where he is responsible for the commercial aspects of IHS Insight business, including IHS CERA, IHS Fairplay, IHS Global Insight, IHS Herold, and IHS Jane’s. He has a broad range of international experience working with major energy companies and providing strategic consulting services. Prior to assuming this post Mr. Gear held several executive leadership positions in IHS, including responsibilities in the areas of strategy, product management, marketing, and mergers and acquisitions. He joined IHS, the parent company of IHS CERA, in March 2005. In addition to his work with IHS Mr. Gear has international experience in the oil, gas, and energy businesses, and in consulting. While a consultant at Booz-Allen & Hamilton he worked on assignments in the oil, gas, and energy industries, developing strategic plans at both the corporate and product level, and leading detailed implementation assignments focused on operational improvements for Fortune 500 companies. Mr. Gear also served as Vice President of Marketing & Business Development for Activant Solutions, a leading technology provider of vertical business management solutions primarily serving the automotive, hardware/lumber, and wholesale distribution businesses, and directly managed Activant’s full European operations. In addition he was Vice President of Quality & Customer Experience for Smarterwork.com, a multicountry business-to-business Internet-enabled business services company based in London, for which he also cross-managed local teams in five other countries. Mr. Gear holds a BA magna cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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