Kathleen McElwee
CFO
Lonergan Partners is pleased to announce that Kathleen McElwee has been named Chief Financial Officer of Wall Street on Demand.
About Kathleen
Kathy McElwee has more than 25 years of finance experience in software and consumer-product companies, including experience managing high-volume transaction processing environments. Prior to becoming CFO at WageWorks, she was CFO for VA Software, a publicly-held online media, software, and e-commerce leader in community-driven Open Source innovation. Previously she held Vice President and CFO positions in a number of companies, including 8 years as a public company CFO. McElwee holds an MBA at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a BBA from Pennsylvania State University.
About Wall Street On Demand
Wall Street on Demand provides investment research services to investors. The company offers custom financial site integration and creates graphical research for the individual investor. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, Wall Street on Demand is a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Group.
Placement Update
In June, 2010, Wall Street On Demand was acquired by Markit.
We are pleased with the background that Kathy brings to the CFO position at WSOD. Her strategic finance experience and track record in helping scale high-growth businesses will add tremendous value to WSOD. The team at Lonergan Partners did a great job of identifying and presenting candidates and constantly driving the process to a successful conclusion.
Raz Zia, VP PIA Group, Goldman Sachs
Kathy McElwee combines the most important elements in a great Chief Financial Officer – she is a pragmatic financial general manager with a terrific gift for strategy and implementation. We believe that Kathy will support Wall Street on Demand in their growth, helping to make WSOD a global financial services and systems company.
Mark Lonergan, Founder & Managing Partner, Lonergan Partners