Brian Farley Email & Phone Number

Cranford, NJ, US

Short Hills, New Jersey, United States

P&L responsibility for $100 million compliance and supply management business segment. Third-Party Risk & Compliance is Dun & Bradstreet's fastest-growing line of business.

Short Hills, NJ

• Lead partnership solution activities across global functional teams including communicating initiatives and gaining buy-in.
• Support partners in product ideation, strategy, design, and development activities to drive best in class joint solutions to the marketplace.

Short Hills, NJ

• Led cross-functional teams spanning three continents in effort to reengineer D&B’s data collection, data integration and analytics derivation systems and processes.
• Designed and implemented testing program of 10x typical D&B budget, duration and scope; leading to successful on time delivery of new operational system.
• Drove overhaul of D&B method for delivering large scale technology implementations, fostering organizational and procedural improvements for increasing ROI.

Short Hills, NJ

• Founder of 10 person team tasked with conceptualizing and incubating new businesses with the potential to grow to $50 million or more.
• Led implementation of pilot for online advertising targeting solution, generating $1 million revenue in the test marketing phase. Success led to ongoing effort to incubate the business.
• Directed requirements and UI design effort for new module of $400 million revenue product line, enabling customer retention improvements that reversed single digit revenue declines spanning 3 years.
• Led concept development for supply risk assessment and mitigation solutions covering disaster, financial, delivery and social responsibility risks. Effort enabled launch of new product offering within 12 months.

Short Hills, NJ

• Led team of 5 product directors responsible for roadmap vision and implementation for $390 million revenue business subject to intense shareholder scrutiny.
• Devised plan and supporting business case for consolidating 20 disparate legacy product lines into single, modular product suite. Subsequent implementation led to 50% reduction in time to market for new features.
• Articulated vision, implementation plan and business case for 5 investment proposals approved by the Board of Directors. Resulting $20 million investment led to products generating $40 million revenue by year two.

Short Hills, NJ

• Owned $45 million revenue responsibility for business intelligence and marketing analytics product portfolio.
• Drove 13% growth rate across the portfolio, over twice the company average.
• Envisioned, developed and launched D&B’s first analytical prospecting solution for middle market customers.

Short Hills, NJ

• Owned $6 million revenue responsibility for web based business intelligence solution. Customers included supply managers from some of the world’s largest retailers, defense contractors and financial institutions.
• Served two year term as code set manager for the United Nations Standard Products and Services Code (UNSPSC), increasing by 2X both the membership community and the code set coverage.
• Led 6-month, $1 million redesign of data integration and spend classification processes. Global, cross-functional team effort enabled 50% delivery time reduction and 30% customer retention improvement.

Andover, MA

• P&L responsibility for RB, a 40 employee, $8 million revenue, capital market focused social media business.
• Led firm wide effort to consolidate third party finance content contracts and data feed infrastructure. Completed project on time and under budget. Reduced AV’s expenses by approximately $8 million annually.
• Drove 5 month effort to sell RB after AV cancelled its IPO. Anchored road show and disclosure efforts. Negotiated key transaction terms. Efforts led to sale of RB to Terra Lycos for $10 million cash.
• AltaVista, now defunct, was once the leading Internet search engine.

Andover, MA

• Reported to CEO of pre-IPO social media start-up. Led 3 person team responsible for product roadmap.
• Raging Bull is one of the web’s best and longest running financial communities.

New York, NY

• Vetted eCommerce strategies for executives of $10 million municipal bond listing service and $70 million commodity price information business.

Princeton, NJ

• Led software development team of 8 professionals. Designed, implemented and reengineered systems processing hundreds of thousands of claims representing $ billions of asbestos related personal injury liabilities.
• CCR provides litigation and claims processing services to former manufacturers of products containing asbestos.

Philadelphia, PA

• Led programming and design effort of 3 member Oracle, SAS and SQL development team at CCR.
• Peterson Consulting, later acquired by Navigant (NYSE:NCI), was a boutique litigation consulting firm.

Mba, Information, Communications And Media

• Beta Gamma Sigma honor society qualifier. • McGraw-Hill Financial summer internship.

B.S., Information And Decision Systems

• Graduated first in department. • Achieved Dean’s List in 6 of 8 semesters.