Steve Hasker is stepping into the CEO position and Mike Eastwood is succeeding Stephane Bello, both effective March 15.  Smith, who has been with the company for almost 33 years, joined as  COO of the Thomson Newspaper Group in 1987. He will become chairman of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Bello will become the company’s vice chairman. He started at the company in 2001 as treasurer and served as CFO of the Professional division for four years. Hasker, who had a five-year tenure with PWC, was CEO of Creative Artists’ Agency from January 2018 through July 2019. He was with Nielsen from November 2009 through December 2017 where he was global president and COO. Eastwood, currently head of corporate finance, started at Thomson in September 1998 as VP of business planning and strategic analysis

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Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards.  Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He  has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that.  A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind