Clark Manning through 2010, in that year earning $2.1 million compensation. After stepping down from CEO of Jackson National Life in 2010, Manning was to serve as an adviser through the end of 2011. Tidjane Thiam, CEO of Prudential plc, praised Manning's for leaving at JNL "a strong legacy, having put together over the years a first-class management team and achieved excellent results...". Manning also was an analyst at Prudential Equity Group's Research Division (part of U.S.-based Prudential Financial and entirely unrelated to U.K.-based Prudential plc) at some point in his career. In 2015, he is a director and chairman of the
Black Book (company) Black Book (company) Black Book, also known as Black Book Market Research, is a Tampa, Florida technology and services market research and opinion research company. The company provides competitive intelligence, market research, opinion mining and related consulting services for brand, product and service awareness tracking. The company also provides private polling services for media outlets, including U.S. News & World Report and The Wall Street Journal. The company is privately owned by Douglas Brown, who also serves as the group's CEO. Black Book was founded in 2002 by Doug Brown, who along with then partner Scott Wilson founded sister company