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Michael Pepe assumed the role of president, U.S. for D&B in January 2006. Mr. Pepe is also a member of the company’s Global Leadership Team.
Mr. Pepe joined D&B in March 2004 as leader, U.S. Customers, with responsibility for the U.S. Sales teams and for D&B’s DUNSRight Strategy team and U.S. DUNSRight Operations organization. Since joining the company, he has played a strategic role in driving the strong organic revenue growth of D&B's U.S. business, which accounts for approximately two-thirds of total revenue.
Mr. Pepe is a proven leader with broad general management experience driving corporate strategy, sales and marketing and e-business. He joined D&B following a 17 year career with Time Warner, where he led a number of corporate initiatives in the areas of strategic planning, new media, organizational development and diversity. Most recently, he was president and chief executive officer of Time Inc. International. In this capacity, he led all magazine publishing activities outside of North America, transforming this area into a strategic business component and tripling it in size.
From 1999 to 2000, Mr. Pepe held senior leadership roles developing Internet strategy and building a central e-commerce infrastructure for all Time Warner sites as president and chief operating officer of Time Warner Digital Media. From 1993 to 1999, Mr. Pepe drove record levels of revenue and profitability and launched substantial new businesses as president of Business Information Group which encompassed business and personal finance publications such as Fortune and Money magazines. Mr. Pepe joined Time Inc. in 1986 as People magazine’s director of strategic planning and development. He progressed through several leadership roles and in 1989, became general manager.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Pepe was president and chief operating officer of Patient Technology Inc. He also worked at Procter & Gamble in brand management and at Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. in corporate finance.
Mr. Pepe graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Delaware where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received an MBA from Harvard University. | 