Employees at Skillsoft rank Jeff Tarr in the Bottom 30% of CEOs in Boston. Comparatively, employees at StormWind Studios rank Tom Graunke in the Top 50% of CEOs in Phoenix. Employees rate their CEO differently based on the frequency of interaction, ability to affect company culture, and drive measurable results.

Jeff Tarr

CEO of Skillsoft

BIO: Jeff Tarr is Chief Executive Officer of Skillsoft and brings a successful track record of building tech-enabled services companies into trusted industry leaders. Over the last two decades, he has transformed three publicly traded, tech-enabled information companies into industry leaders. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of DigitalGlobe, the world leader in satellite imagery and geospatial intelligence, from 2011 until the sale of the company to MDA (now Maxar Technologies) in 2017. Prior to DigitalGlobe, Jeff was President and Chief Operating Officer of IHS (now IHS Markit) and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the publicly traded business information company, Hoover’s, Inc. (now a division of D&B). He began his career with Bain & Company. Jeff currently serves on the boards of EchoStar and DSST Public Schools, one of the leading open enrollment school systems in the United States. He is also a member of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Advisory Council and was previously Chairman of the school’s Management Board. Jeff served on the board of The Corporate Executive Board Company (CEB) until the sale of the company to Gartner in 2017. He also served as co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Council on the Future of Space Technologies and co-Chair of the Annual Meeting of New Champions in Dalian China. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Jeff holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs.

Tom Graunke

CEO of StormWind Studios

BIO: I’m a product of an entrepreneurial family. Six months out of college, I realized I’m not someone who could be told to go sit in a cube. I need the big picture. I make it my goal to always deliver what I promise..and then some. Creating ‘something out of nothing’ - and making money from it - is what gets me going. Additionally, I enjoy helping grow people’s careers. People are usually much more experienced, and at a higher position level, after they’ve spend several years in my business. I’m most excited about watching the ‘new Web’ develop and grow. The internet, in many ways, is still basic. It can go much farther. Rich media is on the way to making everything more entertaining. I'm all about setting an outrageous goal and finding a way to hit it...make the impossible possible.