With his wife Mary Joy Stead, Jerre founded the Stead Foundation, which partners with nonprofits and to date has granted more than $400 million to healthcare, education, and faith-based organizations. In 2023, Jerre founded Stead Impact Ventures as an extension of the Foundation’s commitment with the mission to invest with responsibility and purpose in innovators whose ideas will positively change the course of health and wellbeing. Jerre serves as the board chair of Stead Impact Ventures and co-chair of Stead Foundation.
Jerre is chair emeritus at Clarivate after serving as executive chair and chief executive officer for more than three years. Jerre was the CEO of Churchill Capital Corp until its merger with Clarivate in May 2019. He had been the CEO and a member of the board of directors of Churchill Capital Corp since August 2018. Prior to that he served as chairman and CEO of IHS Markit, Ltd.—a publicly listed company on NASDAQ and world leader in critical information, analytics, and solutions—and executive chairman and CEO at IHS Inc., its predecessor company.
Jerre has had a long and very successful career as CEO with 10 public companies. Over the last two decades he has created a world leader and one of the fastest growing companies in the information services sector, IHS Markit, Ltd. Prior to his leadership at IHS Markit, he led other highly successful technology and information companies such as Ingram Micro, Legent Corporation, AT&T Global Business Communications Systems, AT&T Global Information Solutions (NCR Corporation), NCR Japan, Square D, and Honeywell-Phillips Medical Electronics. He has also invested in nearly 40 startup companies.
Over his 42-year career he has achieved average annual shareholder returns exceeding 22% while serving on 36 corporate and 27 nonprofit boards. He has received numerous accolades for his work, including the Kenneth B. West Lifetime Achievement Award in July 2017 from the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) in recognition of his service on corporate and philanthropic boards. He is chairman of the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute as well as chairman of the board of Garrett Evangelical Seminary and he sits on the boards of the America Writers Museum and Guideposts.
