Nationality Swedish Term 2009–present Occupation Businessman Name Erik Engstrom | Years active 1984–present Role Businessman Title CEO, RELX Group | |
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Full Name Erik Nils Engstrom Born 14 June 1963 (age 60) ( 1963-06-14 ) Salary £20,681,000 (total compensation, 2014) Alma mater Stockholm School of Economics, Royal Institute of Technology, Harvard Business School | ||
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Erik Nils Engstrom (born 14 June 1963) is a Swedish businessman, chief executive officer (CEO) of RELX Group, a multinational information and analytics company, operating in four market segments: scientific, technical and medical; risk and business information; legal; and exhibitions.
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Early life
Erik Engstrom is the son of Alice Engstrom and Dr Kjell Engstrom of Täby, Sweden, who was managing director of the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm. He has a BSc from the Stockholm School of Economics, an MSc from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Fulbright scholar.
Career
Engstrom has been chief executive of RELX Group (formerly Reed Elsevier) since 2009, having been chief executive of Elsevier since 2004. Before that, he was a partner at General Atlantic, and prior to that was president and chief operating officer of Random House Inc and, before its merger with Random House, president and chief executive officer of Bantam Doubleday Dell, North America. He started his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Company.
Personal life
In 1997, Engstrom married Elizabeth Hobson "Libby" Pierpont, the daughter of Elizabeth Wentworth Pierpont and Carleton Langley Pierpont, a property developer, of Darien, Connecticut at St. James' Church in New York.