Technology >> CEO Interviews >> January 14, 2002

Robert Carpenter – Ihs Group

ROBERT R. CARPENTER is the president and Chief Executive Officer of IHS Group. Before joining IHS Group, Mr. Carpenter served as Chairman and CEO of System Software Associates, a worldwide leader in enterprise application systems to major corporations in over 70 countries. Prior to that, he was the President and CEO of Origin Americas, a subsidiary of Philips B.V., and was instrumental in growing the company's IT services and outsourcing revenues by 32%, engineering a profit turnaround. Before Origin Americas, Bob had worldwide responsibility for NCR's $3 billion services businesses and was in charge of Marketing and Sales Operations for AT&T Network Systems (Lucent). He holds a Bachelor's degree from DePauw University, a Master's degree in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Profile
TWST: Can we start out with a history and overview of how you see IHS

today?

Mr. Carpenter: We have two principal divisions: engineering and energy.

Our IHS Engineering history actually goes