Leadership Team

President

Paul Bascobert joined Thomson Reuters as President of Reuters News in September 2022. In this role, he leads all aspects of the company’s media business and operations.

Bascobert has been an operating executive, adviser and entrepreneur for more than 25 years and has deep experience in transformation and growth in news, media and SaaS businesses.

He was previously co-founder and CEO of Blue Ocean Acquisition Corp – a special purpose acquisition company focused on media, marketplace and tech platform businesses; CEO of Gannett Co., Inc – one of the largest local media companies, which owns more than 700 daily and weekly publications in the U.S. and UK; President of American media and technology company XO Group; and President of Yodle Inc during the launch of the SaaS marketing platform.

Prior to this, Bascobert was President of Bloomberg Businessweek and Head of Business Operations for the newly created Bloomberg Media Group, as well as Senior Vice President of Operations and then Chief Marketing Officer at Dow Jones.

Paul has a degree in electrical engineering from Kettering University and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Head of Financial News Strategy & LSEG Partnership

Carol leads the Reuters relationship with the London Stock Exchange Group, our largest customer.  She joined the company in 1998 and has held a wide variety of roles in corporate strategy, alliance management and sales.  Before joining the Reuters business in 2022, Carol served as the General Manager of the Global Accounting Firms business, serving some of the largest and most complex Thomson Reuters customers.

She received a BA in Political Science from Yale University (1992) and an MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia (1998).

Carol serves on the boards of two nonprofits: Northeast Wilderness Trust (Montpelier, VT) and BETA Trails (Lake Placid, NY).

Head of Operations & Strategy

Matthew Keen has been Head of Operations & Strategy at Reuters since May 2024 responsible for strategy, business development, data & analytics, program management, commercial excellence, and customer operations. In addition, Matthew has been Head of Finance, Financial Systems & Data for Thomson Reuters since October 2022. Prior to this Matthew held various positions at Reuters and Thomson Reuters including Head of International, Thomson Reuters from April 2023 to April 2024, Interim President, Reuters, from January to September 2022 and Chief Financial Officer, Reuters from February 2018 to December 2021, which was combined with leading Thomson Reuters finance transformation during 2021.  Matthew was Chief Financial Officer, for the Legal, Corporates and Tax businesses in Europe from August 2013 to February 2018 and Head of Finance, Enterprise (Financial & Risk division) from October 2010 to August 2013.

Matthew re-joined Thomson Reuters in late 2010 after holding senior finance positions at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 2009 and 2010 having first joined Reuters in 2002 and leaving at the end of 2008. Prior to joining Reuters, Matthew became an ICAEW Chartered Accountant working at Deloitte. He holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Warwick.

Chief Financial Officer

Drew is the CFO of Reuters News, a role he has held since 2022. He leads all financial planning and analysis, investment allocation, and finance operations for Reuters News and its divisions globally. Previously, he served as deputy CFO of Reuters News for 2 years.

Drew has been with Thomson Reuters since 2011, holding a variety of finance roles at the parent company and in the Tax Professionals and Corporates Professionals business segments. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Drew worked in investment banking at Citibank and in private equity for American Securities, a large middle market buyout firm in New York City.

Drew holds a B.A. in Economics and Chinese Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Vice President, Communications, Reuters

Jonathan Mullen, Vice President, Communications, Reuters, has been in the role since November 2023. He has held senior communications roles at BNP Paribas, HSBC and BlackRock and has a wealth of experience in strategic communications, issues management and talent management. More recently he has advised GAM Investments and Trinity College, Cambridge, on communications issues. He started his career as an employment lawyer at a large firm in the City of London, before changing fields to communications at a French bank.  

Head of Technology, Reuters

As the CTO/Head of Technology at Reuters, Mahesh is responsible for leading the Technology team and shaping the organization’s technology strategy. His areas of expertise span technology development, AI integration, architecture design, platform management, cybersecurity, quality assurance, and operational resilience. 

During his tenure at Reuters, Mahesh spearheaded the transformation of Editorial technology, seamlessly integrating AI and cloud-based solutions into workflow tools and applications. His innovative contributions have been instrumental in enhancing efficiency, fostering business growth, and driving forward-thinking innovation within the organization. 

Mahesh’s leadership also extends to the modernization of the News platform, a pivotal system powering LSEG businesses, including LSEG Workspace. His strategic vision and technical prowess have played a pivotal role in optimizing operational workflows and ensuring technological agility. 

Before joining Reuters in 2007 as the Head of Architecture, News Technology, Mahesh accrued a decade of experience at the ANZ Banking group, where he held key roles in the Investment Banking and Corporate Finance divisions, notably as an Engineering Lead and Solution Architect. Mahesh holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Surathkal in India.

Vice President, HR

Luke joined Thomson Reuters in 2007 as an HR Business Partner for the UK Legal business and has since advanced through various roles and regions. As the current Vice President of HR, Reuters, he manages HR operations across 76 countries and 200 locations, focusing on strategic workforce planning and employee well-being. His recent work includes overseeing HR for two strategic acquisitions and implementing a new operating model to boost efficiency and agility.

Previously, as the Regional Head of HR for EMEA, Luke led HR initiatives that significantly enhanced growth and engagement and spearheaded DE&I efforts in the UK. Before that, he served as Head of HR for Legal UKI & Europe, where he supported revenue growth, led a transformative change program, and managed key acquisitions and a strategic divestiture.

Earlier in his career, Luke was a Regional HR Business Partner in Asia, leading GTM strategies across financial and risk sectors, and started as the International HR Manager for the Business of Law segment. He holds a CIPD qualification from Kingston University and a BA in Business Studies & Human Resources from Sussex University.

Editor-in-Chief, Reuters

Alessandra Galloni became editor-in-chief of Reuters in April 2021. She oversees all editorial functions across video, text, pictures, and graphics. She is the first female editor-in-chief in the organization’s 170-year history.

Previously, Galloni was global managing editor, overseeing news planning and creation, where she was responsible for overseeing Reuters coverage and developing stories with a cross-regional focus. She first joined Reuters in 1996 for the Italian-language news service in Rome, later moving to the equities reporting team in London. She re-joined Reuters in September 2013 as editor of the Southern Europe bureau following 13 years at The Wall Street Journal, where she worked as a reporter, economics and business writer and editor, in London, Paris and Rome.

Galloni is the recipient of the 2020 Lawrence Minard Editor Award from the Gerald Loeb Foundation and the UCLA Anderson School of Management, one of the highest honors a business journalist can receive. She is also the recipient of an Overseas Press Club Award and a UK Business Journalist of the Year Award.

An Italian national, Galloni is a graduate of Harvard University and has a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics.

Jane Barrett is the Global Editor, Media News Strategy for Reuters. As part of the Editorial leadership team, she has responsibility for new business across the 171-year-old news agency, from growing output and revenue in audio and fact-checking to modernising journalistic formats and content. Previously, she led the multimedia transformation of the global newsroom to increase Reuters digital output. Before that, she was the business editor for EMEA, started up a financial video service and was a reporter in Italy and Spain. Outside Reuters she is a trustee of Podium.me, a charity that gets young people into journalism and storytelling through podcasts, and is a board member of the World Editors’ Forum. She has a lifelong passion for classical music and being outside.

Global Head, Ethics and Standards, Reuters

Alix Freedman is the Global Head, Ethics and Standards for Reuters. Alix works closely with reporters and editors on major stories, final-reading many high signature pieces, and holding the company to the high standards set out in the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. She also handles post-publication issues.

Prior to joining Reuters in 2011, Alix was Deputy Managing Editor and Page One Editor at The Wall Street Journal. Before that, she oversaw ethics and standards of high-impact stories in the paper and on the Dow Jones newswires.

Alix was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for her investigative reporting on the tobacco industry, and has been honoured with numerous other accolades, including the George Polk Award and two Gerald Loeb Awards. She is a graduate of Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in history and literature.

Global Managing Editor, Newsroom

Nick Tattersall is Global Managing Editor, Newsroom, at Reuters. He oversees the news agency’s global staff, training and development as well as the safety and security of its journalists around the world.

He previously served as Head of the Global News Desk, running Reuters global text editing operations, and as Managing Editor, News, for EMEA, overseeing the news file in the agency’s single biggest region.

Nick joined Reuters in 2000 and has run news bureaus and reported from around Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Nick is a graduate of Oxford University and has a Master’s degree from Columbia University in New York, where he was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics Journalism.

Global Editor, Operations

Julien Toyer is the Global Editor for Operations. He oversees our budget and manages strategy and operations for our 2,600-strong newsroom.

Julien joined Reuters in 2006 in Paris as an online correspondent for the French service before moving to Brussels where, between 2008 and 2012, he covered the euro zone debt crisis, financial regulation, and foreign policy. Since 2012, he is based in Spain where he has successively been Senior Business Correspondent, Spain and Iberia Bureau Chief and Europe General Manager. Julien holds degrees in politics, international relations and journalism and completed an executive management programme at IESE business school in Barcelona.

He started his career as a press attaché for the French embassy in Mexico and has reported in more than two dozen countries for Reuters. In the last years, he has led several transformation programmes in our newsroom, including the creation of breaking news hubs across all our editorial regions, and he’s now one of a group of editors overseeing our AI newsroom strategy.

Mike Williams is the Global Enterprise Editor at Reuters, a position he assumed in 2011. He developed the news agency’s global enterprise and investigative operation, a team of 16 editors and reporters in the U.S., Europe and Asia. In addition to generating its own work, the team is responsible for driving investigative and explanatory journalism in the agency’s news bureaus across the world, and for training Reuters reporters in enterprise reporting and writing techniques.

Before joining Reuters, Mike was with The Wall Street Journal for nearly 20 years, most recently as Deputy Managing Editor and Page-One Editor of the Wall Street Journal. In this role, he was one of three deputies to the editor-in-chief who managed the WSJ on a daily basis, where he was responsible for enterprise coverage and investigative projects for print and online, and for selecting and editing all daily news and features that ran on the front page of the Journal.

Mike joined The Wall Street Journal as a Japan Correspondent, based in Tokyo. He went on to hold the positions of Assistant Foreign Editor, Japan Bureau Chief, Southern Europe Bureau Chief & Global Energy Editor and Editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe while at the Journal.

Previously, Mike held positions at Business Tokyo Magazine, Asahi Shimbun and Japan Times. He is the winner of an Overseas Press Club Award, for a five-part series on the Japanese bureaucracy.