CEO, Data Explorers
Donal is CEO of Data Explorers, the leading global provider of securities financing data and daily long and short institutional fund flow insight. He joined the company in March 2008 from Thomson Reuters where he was CEO of Thomson Financial’s businesses in Europe and Asia.
Prior to this he was Managing Director of Thomson Financial’s Banking and Brokerage division, having joined Thomson at the end of 2001. In these roles he ran the group’s international development strategy, acquiring more than 20 businesses throughout Europe and Asia.
Previously, Donal worked for the Financial Times Group, firstly as Managing Director of Business Information at FT Information and then as Director of Electronic Publishing for the FT Group and a member of the group’s management board. During this period he was responsible for the launch of FT.com, which quickly became the number one business website in Europe.