Following the recent announcement of the merger agreement between S&P Global and IHS Markit, S&P Global announced that Jacques Esculier, Gay Huey Evans, Robert P. Kelly and Deborah Doyle McWhinney will become Directors of the combined company upon closing of the transaction – which is expected to occur during the second half of 2021. All four are currently independent Directors of IHS Markit and their joining is conditioned on the successful closing of the transaction. Mr. Esculier was most recently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of WABCO Holdings until May 2020, when he announced his retirement from the company.

He was also a Director of Pentair PLC until May 2020. Ms. Huey Evans is Chairman of the London Metal Exchange and serves on the Boards of Standard Chartered, ConocoPhillips, and HM Treasury. She serves as Senior Advisor to Chatham House, is a Trustee of the Benjamin Franklin House and is a member of the US Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Kelly was Chairman and CEO of The Bank of New York Mellon until 2011. Prior to that, he was Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Mellon Bank Corporation, Chief Financial Officer of Wachovia Corporation, and Vice-Chairman of Toronto-Dominion Bank. Ms. McWhinney worked at Citi from 2009 to 2014, including as the Chief Executive Officer of Citi's global enterprise payments business, as the Chief Operating Officer of Citi's global enterprise payments business, and as President of Personal Banking and Wealth Management.

Ms. McWhinney has held executive roles at Charles Schwab and Visa International and worked for 17 years at Bank of America in corporate and retail banking.