Clare Hart, Dow Jones

Clare Hart, President of the Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group and Executive 
Vice President of Dow Jones & Company assumed her role in March 2006 – just 
one month after the company was reorganized into three business units: 
Enterprise Media Group, Consumer Media Group and Local Media Group. Under 
Ms. Hart’s leadership and drive, Dow Jones’s Enterprise Media Group is a 
profitable $675 million entity and committed more than ever to a strong focus on 
customers and continuous product innovation. The Dow Jones Enterprise Media 
Group is an acknowledged leader in providing essential news and business 
information to individuals in enterprises around the world and employs nearly 2,200 
people world-wide, including nearly 1,000 news staff.

When Clare joined Dow Jones she brought her vision for delivering Dow Jones’s 
business news and information to customers, when, where and how they need it. 
This was the same philosophy that Clare employed prior to her role at Dow Jones, 
when she was president and CEO of Factiva, before it was acquired by Dow Jones 
in December 2006. From January 2000 to February 2006, Ms. Hart drove the 
strategic vision for this award-winning and innovative business news and 
information company. During her tenure, Factiva grew to No. 1 in its industry from 
No. 3, reaching $281 million in annual revenue and serving more than 1.8 million 
business people at enterprises world-wide. Proving that her business approach 
was a recipe for success, Ms. Hart employed the same business approach to the 
Enterprise Media Group.  So, it came as no surprise when she had the foresight to 
re-organize the Enterprise Media Group into three divisions in order to develop and 
offer content and technology solutions that allow financial services, corporate and 
media and government professionals to use news and business information in 
ways that create business opportunities and financial gain. The three individual 
units include: 

•	Dow Jones Indexes is an independent, full-service index provider that 
develops, maintains and licenses indexes for use as benchmarks and as the basis 
of investment products
•	Dow Jones Financial Information Services produces leading databases, 
electronic media, newsletters, conferences, directories, webinars, custom 
products and other information services on specialized markets and industry 
sectors. LBO has more than 1200 subscribers, and 46 out of the top 50 firms 
subscribe to Dow Jones VentureSource.
•	The Dow Jones Content Technology Solutions unit includes Dow Jones 
Client Solutions, Dow Jones Newswires and Factiva – an aggregator of business 
news and information.

Since then, the Enterprise Media Group has introduced a number of job-specific 
applications to the market, including the Dow Jones Elementized News Feed - 
designed for both buy- and sell-side firms involved in algorithmic trading, 
quantitative analysis and execution management, and Dow Jones Wealth 
Manager, which enables financial advisors to be provided with the information they 
need to build client loyalty and a strong, profitable customer base via the Web. 
Additionally, Clare continued to invest in other job-specific applications for 
information professionals and marketing and sales professionals within the Factiva 
product suite. The success of these products along with her strategic vision to re-
align the business along organizational roles and customer needs reinforces why 
Clare Hart should be recognized as the Best Executive in service businesses up 
to 2,500 employees.  

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Clare Hart is executive vice president, Dow Jones & Company, and president, Dow 
Jones Enterprise Media Group, a principal business unit with $675 million of 
revenue. She is responsible for the Company’s media portfolio serving the 
corporate, media, financial services and government markets.  The unit is 
comprised of Dow Jones Content Technology Solutions (including Dow Jones 
Client Solutions, Dow Jones Newswires, and Factiva), Dow Jones Financial 
Information Services, and Dow Jones Indexes, as well as the Company’s 
enterprise-facing joint venture, STOXX. 

From January 2000 to February 2006, Ms. Hart was president and chief executive 
officer of Factiva, where she drove the strategic vision for this award-winning and 
innovative business news and information company. During her tenure, Factiva 
grew to No. 1 in its industry from No. 3, reaching $281 million in annual revenue 
and serving more than 1.8 million business people at enterprises world-wide. 

Prior to this, Ms. Hart held the position of vice president and director of Factiva 
Global Sales, where she consolidated the multiple sales groups from each 
predecessor into one global team and began the process of building customer 
confidence in the new joint venture. She began her career at Dow Jones in 1983 
and held various positions in sales, marketing, customer service, and product 
design and development at Dow Jones Interactive before joining Factiva. 

Ms. Hart is regarded highly as an expert on business intelligence, enterprise-
search technologies and the information needs of businesspeople and has won 
numerous awards for her leadership and innovation.  From 2004 to 2006, she sat 
on the Software Information Industry Association (SIIA) board of directors.  She is 
a member of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) and the Society of 
Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP). 

Ms. Hart received a bachelor of science degree in finance and computer systems 
management from Drexel University in Philadelphia. She also has an M.B.A. from 
Rider University in Lawrenceville, N.J.