Jeff Tarr

Jeff Tarr is Chief Executive Officer of Skillsoft and brings a successful track record of building tech-enabled services companies into trusted industry leaders.Over the last two decades, he has transformed three publicly traded, tech-enabled information companies into industry leaders. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of DigitalGlobe, the world leader in satellite imagery and geospatial intelligence, from 2011 until the sale of the company to MDA (now Maxar Technologies) in 2017. Prior to DigitalGlobe, Jeff was President and Chief Operating Officer of IHS (now IHS Markit) and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hoover’s, Inc. (now a division of D&B). He began his career with Bain & Company.Jeff serves on the board of EchoStar, is a member of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Advisory Council, and was previously Chairman of the school’s Management Board. He served on the board of The Corporate Executive Board Company (CEB) until the sale to Gartner in 2017 and on the DSST Public Schools board, a leading open enrollment school system in the United States. He also served as co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Council on the Future of Space Technologies and co-Chair of the Annual Meeting of New Champions in Dalian China. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.Jeff holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affair