Podcast Episode: Terry Third Thursday: Doug Curling, Former President, ChoicePoint, Inc.
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- Running Time: 53 min 33 sec
- Published: March 30, 2009
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(25.0 MB) Doug Curling served as the president and COO and board director of ChoicePoint, Inc. from May of 2000 until the company was sold to Reed Elsevier and his retirement on September 2008. He served as president since April 2002 and as COO since May 1999. He served as COO and treasurer from May 1999 to May 2000 and as executive vice president, CFO and treasurer of the company from 1997 until May 1999. Prior to that, he held numerous financial and information technology roles with RJR Nabisco and Equifax.
ChoicePoint, Inc., which is now a part of the LexisNexis® Risk and Information Analytics Group, is a leading provider of decision-making information technology through the identification, retrieval, storage, analysis and delivery of data. ChoicePoint serves the informational needs of businesses of all sizes, as well as federal, state and local government agencies. In Curling's capacity, he was responsible for the day to day operations of the company and for all of ChoicePoint's sales, operations, technology, and customer service functions. He also supervised several of the staff functions including finance, investor relations and human resources.