• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Catherine Allegra

IHS Markit

Senior Vice President, Global Head – Markit Digital

Catherine Allegra co-founded Wall Street On Demand in 1991, an original fin-tech company. The company moved from New York, New York to Boulder, Colorado in 1996 and was owned by Reuters, Charles Schwab and Goldman Sachs before being sold to Markit in 2010. Markit Digital is the leading provider of design, development and managed data services to the financial markets. Over the past thirty years, Catherine has served in many leadership positions within Markit Digital including Chief Operating Officer, Chief Learning Officer and, most recently, Global Head. She is passionate about creating and fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation where employees are empowered to create new technologies to exceed clients’ expectations in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia. Catherine serves on many non-profit and corporate boards including the Bryn Mawr Board of Trustees. She also serves on the Wise Head Panel of the MacArthur Foundation 100&Change Competition. She is married to James Tanner, Founder and CEO of Just Good Advice. They live in Boulder, Colorado and have three sons.

Sessions With Catherine Allegra

Tuesday, 10 March

  • 12:30pm - 01:20pm (CST) / -

    Competing for Talent in a World of Energy Transition

    Attracting the best talent to our organizations is challenging as the energy industry tries to reframe its negative perception into a positive one. How do we convince the best and the brightest that making progress on climate change will require their skills at corporations with the largest carbon footprints? Millennials and Gen Z want to join organizations that are mission-driven and be part of something that is bigger than themselves. Author Simon Sinek, in his book Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, shows how organizations build inspiring teams and cultures by having a common purpose. How are we reframing the debate to show our organizations are part of the solution? How are energy companies using the attention of the media and university campuses to attract the best talent to their organizations?