Lex Fenwick, the now former CEO of Dow Jones, may have been controversial, but at the end of the day it could have been a failed business strategy that led to his parting of ways with Rupert Murdoch’s division of News Corp. An announcement today on the Dow Jones website said that Fenwick will be replaced by William Lewis, News Corp’s chief creative officer, until a search finds a replacement. Speculation is that News Corp senior vice president of strategy Raju Narisetti is a top candidate to replace Fenwick. “The most flamboyant of Bloomberg’s old guard” Fenwick, once described by Vanity…
Lex Fenwick Exit From Dow Jones More About Results Than Personality
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.