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James M. Peck is Chief Executive Officer of Risk & Information Analytics Group for the LexisNexis Group. He started with the business unit in March 2004 with responsibility for driving revenue and merging market needs with technology solutions. Peck facilitated the 2004 Seisint acquisition and integration into LexisNexis Risk & Information Analytics Group business unit. Under Peck's leadership, the business unit has achieved consistent double-digit growth and significant margin improvements.
Previously, Peck was Senior Vice President and Chief Product Officer of the Global Electronic Product Development Organization for LexisNexis. He was responsible for product development and online solutions to serve global markets. He was appointed to this position in October 2001.
Prior to 2001, Peck was the Senior Vice President of Product Development with Celera Genomics, a bio-technology firm. After joining Celera in 1999, Peck led the construction of a new online system containing information about human genetics deployed in task-based applications for research scientists, delivered via the Internet. He spearheaded the creation of their product development group and increased revenue by more than 100% in fiscal year 2001.
Peck previously spent a decade at LexisNexis as an engineer, then manager and director in building data and operating editorial systems. In 1997, Peck joined Lexis� Online Publishing to head product design. As Vice-President of product development, he led the teams that designed and built all the components of the lexis.com� research system, including Core Terms, Search Advisor, Core Concepts, case law summaries, and legislative linking. Peck also headed creation of a new editorial publishing system for the summaries and launched the summaries operations that now employ 700 full-time lawyer-editors.
Peck earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Dayton in management information systems, and a master's in business administration from The Ohio State University. | 