Jonathan Gear — Executive Vice President of Resources & Transportation at Markit

Mr. Jonathan Gear has been Executive Vice President of Resources and Transportation at IHS Markit Ltd. since July 13, 2016. Mr. Gear serves as Executive Vice President of Resources and Transportation at IHS Inc. He is responsible for energy, chemical, automotive, aerospace defense and security and maritime and trade. He served as an Executive Vice President of Industrials and Natural Resources at IHS Inc. since February 2015. He served as Senior Vice President of Industrials at IHS Inc. since April 2013. He served as Chief Operating Officer and President of IHS CERA, Inc. (formerly, IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Inc.). He led global marketing and pricing & portfolio management across IHS, was Senior Vice President of the IHS Insight products. He has a broad range of international experience working with major energy companies and providing strategic consulting services. Prior to assuming this post, he held several executive leadership positions in IHS. He has held several management positions in the consulting, software, content and internet companies, with a large range of industry experience including energy, auto and multinational companies. He served as Vice President of Global Marketing and Vice President of Product Lifecycle Global Products, along with 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. Mr. Gear has international experience in the oil, gas and energy businesses and in consulting. While a Consultant at Booz-Allen & Hamilton, he served 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. He 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 served as 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.