Jack Phillips | Co-founder & CEO
IIA marks the sixth successful start-up venture for Jack Phillips over the past 20 years. Jack specializes in spotting emerging job functions, and building successful information publishing and research firms to help those professionals make better decisions.
Prior to joining IIA, Jack held operating and founding roles at INFONXX (now kgb USA), ISI Emerging Markets (now Euromoney, PLC), CCBN (now Thomson/Reuters) and the Institute for Applied Network Security (recent private sale).
Jack began his career as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley & Co. in New York, and at the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan in Tokyo, and held senior operating positions at various McGraw-Hill business units in 1994 before becoming an entrepreneur. Jack is a graduate of Harvard Business School and Williams College, and lives with his wife and three children in Portland, Oregon.
Thomas H. Davenport | Research Director
IIA’s research efforts are guided by industry pioneer and IIA Director of Research and faculty leader Tom Davenport.
Voted the third leading business-strategy analyst (just behind Peter Drucker and Tom Friedman) in Optimize Magazine, Thomas Davenport is a world-renowned thought-leader who has helped hundreds of companies revitalize their management practices. He combines his interests in business, research, and academia as the President’s Distinguished Professor in Management and Information Technology at Babson College. Tom’s Competing on Analytics idea was recently named by Harvard Business Review as one of the twelve most important management ideas of the past decade and the related article was named one of the ten must read articles in HBR’s 75 year history. Published in February 2010, Tom’s related book, Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results, was named one of the top fifteen must reads for 2010 by CIO Insight.
Katherine Busey | General Manager
Katherine joined IIA in July of 2010, bringing with her a great depth of technology industry contacts and insight. Previously she worked at United Business Media, Gartner and TechTarget, where she oversaw the growth and development of their portfolio of end-user and CIO level programs. Katherine enjoys working with technologists across the enterprise and creating value for their professional and personal development by supplying them with access to a community of like-minded peers.
Katherine has a BA in International Affairs and currently resides in the Boston area with her husband and pug Logan.
Patty Caron | Vice President Marketing
Patty joined IIA in March of 2012 to drive the IIA marketing efforts. Patty’s previous marketing role prior to IIA was Marketing Director at Rising Media for events such as Predictive Analytics World, Text Analytics World, eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit and Building Business Capability. Patty has also held previous roles at IDC, IDG and TechTarget where she managed a variety of conference programs and marketing efforts. Patty has been in the high tech industry for her entire career and has a broad knowledge of topics related to IT.Linda Gilbert | Business Development Manager
Linda leads the Institute’s global sales initiatives, specializing on our Analytics Research Councils (ARC).
Prior to joining IIA, Linda enjoyed a 15 year sales career at Everything Channel (formerly CMP Media), a division of United Business Media. Throughout her career, Linda has held a variety of sales and sales management positions serving the IT Channel and Midmarket. From face-to-face events, online and print, Linda has excelled in creating integrated media programs designed to help her clients achieve their strategic growth initiatives.
Linda graduated from the State University of New York @ Oswego with a BA in Business and Minor in Marketing. She lives in Atlanta with her husband and daughter.
Callie Youssi | Vice President of Research Operations
Callie was recruited to IIA in May 2011 to lead research operations. In this role, she works to build, manage, and support IIA’s global faculty as they uncover the most compelling applications of analytics. She is responsible for aggregating and analyzing the areas of greatest interest to IIA clients and ensuring a strong faculty bench to address those focus areas.
Callie worked in account management at the Corporate Executive Board near Washington, DC for seven years, observing the smartest business leaders as they resourcefully advanced their global 2000 organizations. Immediately prior to joining IIA, she moved to Portland, OR and was the Vice President of Content for an executive leadership events organization.
