Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Leslye G. Katz is senior vice president and chief financial officer of IMS Health (NYSE: RX), the world’s leading provider of market intelligence to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries.  She leads IMS's worldwide finance organization, with responsibility for finance and accounting, treasury, internal audit and investor relations.

Before assuming her current position, Ms. Katz served as IMS’s vice president and controller from 2001 to 2007.  In that role, she built a strong finance and accounting team and led the company’s SEC reporting and financial planning and analysis activities.  Previously, she was vice president and chief financial officer of American Lawyer Media, Inc., a legal journalism and information company, for three years.

From 1996 to 1998, Ms. Katz was vice president and treasurer of IMS’s predecessor company, Cognizant Corporation. In 1980, she joined The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, where she held a number of senior financial management posts, including senior vice president and chief financial officer of Reuben H. Donnelley, a D&B division. 

Ms. Katz holds a B.A. degree from Brown University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.