Meet the Thomson Reuters Indices and Thomson Reuters Business Classification team:

Strategic Research

Andrew Clark
Chief Index Strategist
Thomson Reuters Indices

Andrew Clark is Chief Index Strategist for Thomson Reuters Indices. In this role Andrew is responsible of developing new index methodologies, vetting index methodologies proposed by partners of Thomson Reuters Indices, chairing the Thomson Reuters Index Action Committee, and being the chief “evangelist” for the Thomson Reuters Index business.

As evangelist, Andrew has made appearances on CNBC in the U.S., BNN in Canada, MSNBC in Hong Kong, CCTV in mainland China, CNNfN, Reuter’s Insider and ETNow. He has spoken at many industry, economic, and mathematical conferences where he has either presented original research on a variety of topics in financial mathematics, discussed trends in the markets, or presented novel investment and index construction ideas.  

Andrew has won several awards for his research – most recently the Most Innovative Index Award from IBA/IMN in 2009 – and was singled out at the 2010 International Symposium of Forecasters for the originality of his research into stock index volatility. His research work has appeared in Physica A, Quantitative Finance, European Physical Journal B and several other academic journals. A recent book edited by John Guerard – Handbook of Portfolio Construction – includes a chapter authored by Andrew. 

View or download Andrew’s current white papers, copies of presentations and recordings of his regular webcasts.

Geoff Horrell
Content Strategist
Industry Classification

Geoff Horrell is responsible for the Thomson Reuters Business Classification (TRBC) data collection process, its accuracy, and its deployment. TRBC is Thomson Reuters' proprietary and granular industry classification schema.

Geoff has been with Thomson Reuters for 8 years, initially as a Multex Content Specialist. Since then he has worked in various global roles involving customer propositions for quantitative data and has had a pivotal role in growing our content licensing business. He has been a speaker and panelist at several conferences, and his work on Industry Classification has appeared in major global business publications.

Geoff holds an M.A in Economics from the University of Edinburgh and an Investment Management Certificate from the UK Society of Investment Professionals.

Index Leadership

Jamie Robinson
Head of commercial strategy
& business development
Thomson Reuters Indices

Jamie is responsible for building and executing all licensing and partnership programs for Thomson Reuters Indices.  

Jamie has held various positions in Thomson Reuters specializing in Content Acquisition, Rights Management, Distribution and Commercial Policy.

He was initially a Reuters Data Consultant and then the head of Third Party Content for the Americas. Before joining Thomson Reuters Indices, Jamie ran a Global Partner Program, where he targeted and grew third party partnerships and alliances.

Jamie holds a Bachelor of Arts from McMaster University.

Lucas Garland
Head of Product Management
Thomson Reuters Indices

Lucas oversees the product development of Thomson Reuters Indices. He is responsible for distributing proprietary index content throughout the Thomson Reuters family of products and vetting proposed relationships with third party index providers.

Prior to his current role, Lucas was Global Product Manager for Lipper Indices (a Thomson Reuters business). He helped lead the exploration of the new index businesses for Reuters in such areas as the development of passive benchmarks, investable actively managed indices, and the expansion of its calculation services.  

Lucas has written for and been cited in several top publications including the FTFM, Investment Week, Investor’s Business Daily, Fund Strategy, Funds Europe, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, and Ignites.  

Lucas holds an MS in Finance from the University of Colorado

We are dedicated to providing our line of indices and indexing services to the investment community. You may seek to use our indices for benchmarking and analysis or to serve as the basis for investment vehicles. Or you may simply wish to find out more about our sector schema or our custom index provision or our calculation services. Whatever the reason, please feel free to contact anyone on our team:  

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