NEW YORK, March 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EDGAR®
Online, Inc. (Nasdaq: EDGR) announced today that
Diana M. Bourke will be joining the
company. Ms. Bourke will assume the title of Chief Operations
Officer and will join the company full time on April 5, 2010.
Prior to joining EDGAR Online, Ms. Bourke was most recently
President and Chief Executive Officer of Inveshare Inc., formerly
known as Swingvote. Inveshare delivers shareholder communication
and voting technology solutions to brokers and clearing firms for
their retail investors.
Ms. Bourke's financial and compliance background includes
several executive positions with Institutional Shareholder Services
(ISS) the leading provider of corporate governance and proxy voting
solutions and a subsidiary of RiskMetrics Group. Before joining
RMG/ISS in 2004, Ms. Bourke had over 25 years business experience
with a focus on technology and operations in a variety of
industries. She was CIO and SVP of Operations for CIGNA Health
Services, President and COO of SCP Communications, a medical
communications company and SVP of Systems and Operations for
ACNielsen. She also held various roles including CEO of NCH
Promotional Services (a division of Dun & Bradstreet), VP of
Application Development and Technology Infrastructure at Heller
Financial, and served in a variety of technology roles early in her
career with International Harvester. Ms. Bourke's career has been
focused on driving quality and efficiency through the combination
of process improvement and technology enablement.
EDGAR Online President and CEO Philip
Moyer said, "We are delighted to have Diana as our Chief
Operations Officer. Diana will be an officer of the company and
take on a pivotal role for EDGAR Online as we expand and extend our
XBRL offerings. We are seeing great demand for our XBRL products
and services. Diana brings the financial, compliance, technical and
strategic experience that we were looking for on our senior
management team to help us scale our business to take advantage of
the growth opportunities we see. She is joining EDGAR Online at an
exciting and demanding time in the growth of the company and I have
every confidence that her skills will accelerate our progress and
add enormous value to our senior management team".
Ms. Bourke is a Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the
University of Notre Dame with a double
major in Economics and Philosophy. Ms. Bourke has served on the
Board of Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, Illinois and is currently
on the Board of Trudeau Institute in Saranac Lake, New York.
About EDGAR® Online, Inc.
EDGAR Online, Inc. www.edgar-online.com, is a leading provider
of value-added business and financial information on global
companies to financial, corporate and advisory professionals. The
company makes its information and a variety of analysis tools
available via online subscriptions and licensing agreements to a
large user base.
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