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As Senior Vice President, Strategy & Business Development, Simon Alterman is responsible for articulating the strategic framework for the Enterprise Media Group and for finding business opportunities and acquisitions that offer the best potential for future profitable growth. His global team also provides research and market intelligence to support the group's current and future markets and manages EMG planning.
Prior to this, Mr. Alterman was Vice President, Content, for Factiva, the former joint venture between Dow Jones and Reuters which was purchased by Dow Jones in late 2006. In this position, he was responsible for the strategy and development of content in all Factiva's product offerings, including the acquisition of rights from publishers, the development and application of Factiva Intelligent Indexing, the company's proprietary coding scheme, and for the consultancy work of Factiva's Taxonomy Services Group. A member of the executive team since the formation of Factiva in 1999, he has also held responsibility at different times for content operations, product development, business development, and consultancy operations.
Mr. Alterman began his career as a journalist at Reuters in 1980 and spent the next 17 years in a variety of correspondent roles in Mexico, Chile, Spain and Belgium. As Bureau Chief, News and Television, in Brussels, Mr. Alterman created the Reuters European Community Report, European Union Briefing and Belgian Financial Report services and built up the Reuters media business in Benelux.
In 1997, he moved to Geneva as Marketing Manager for business information products, financial news and television throughout Europe, Middle East and Africa, and was later appointed Director, Corporate and Media Business Development, responsible for the media, new media and corporate information businesses in the region.
A graduate of Cambridge University with a degree in Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, he speaks French and Spanish fluently and Polish badly, despite having been married to a Pole for more than 20 years.
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