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Board of Managers

The Board of Managers consists of three members of SNL's leadership team and three outside members with distinguished, meaningful experience in SNL's core information markets. The current members of the Board have worked together to direct SNL's strategy and growth since 2003.

Board of Managers

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Reid Nagle

Reid Nagle
Chairman & Founder

Prior to starting SNL Financial in 1987, Reid spent 10 years in the financial services industry. He was the CFO for a New Jersey savings bank (also serving as vice chairman and CAO) and subsequently worked with the financial services and arbitrage affiliates of Ivan F. Boesky and Co. Reid holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and his master’s and doctoral degrees in political economy from Johns Hopkins University.

Mike Chinn

Mike Chinn
President

Mike started his career at SNL in 1994 and oversees the company's business units, information systems, content, sales, finance and administrative functions. Prior to assuming the position of president in 2000, Mike was managing principal in charge of product development and industry business units. Mike holds a B.A . in history and economics from the University of Virginia.

Will Pappas

Will Pappas
Managing Director of Sales

Will was president, CEO and co-founder of Y-Merge, a financial analytics company, prior to its acquisition by SNL in 2002. Before Y-Merge, he held various sales positions with Multex.com. Will began his career as an investment banking analyst with Sandler O'Neill. Will holds a degree in economics from Duke University.

Mike Danziger

Mike Danziger
Board Member

Mike is CEO and co-owner of Buyers Laboratory, the leading global provider of competitive intelligence services on office imaging products. Since graduating from Wharton in 1980, he has spent his career in the online B2B publishing business, with the bulk of his experience being in the financial information publishing space. Notably, Mike ran Thomson Financial’s Database Group during the 1990s, which, at the time of his departure, had $600 million in revenue.

William Houlihan

William Houlihan
Board Member

Bill is a CPA and financial services executive with more than 30 years of experience in financings, acquisitions and transactions. He has been the CFO of a publicly traded bank (Hudson United), a credit card company (Metris), a privately owned auto lender and an insurance services company. Bill has also been an investment banker for Goldman Sachs and other leading financial firms.

James McGonigle

James McGonigle
Board Member

Jay is former chairman and CEO of the Corporate Executive Board, a highly regarded, publicly traded information services company that creates and sells Best Practices studies, reports and other decision support tools to corporations. Jay is also on the Board of Factset, a premier aggregator and distributor of financial information.