Board Of Directors

The Board of Directors represents the ownership of Yankee Group in all major decisions about the company's strategy and financial issues.

    Lane MacDonald B. Lane MacDonald, Chairman
    B. Lane MacDonald, a general partner of Alta Communications, joined the firm in 1999. He specializes in identifying and managing investments in media and telecom services with an emphasis on television broadcasting, cable television, publishing, information services and towers.

    Before joining Alta, he was a principal at J.W. Childs Associates, a leveraged buyout firm with more than $1 billion under management, where he invested in cash-flow-related businesses. Prior to this, MacDonald was an assistant vice president at BancBoston Capital (the private equity division of FleetBoston), where he also focused on cash-flow-related private equity investments.

    MacDonald graduated cum laude from Harvard University with a degree in economics and received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was also a member of the 1988 U.S.A. Olympic Hockey Team. He currently serves on the boards of several privately held companies including Rapid Communications LLC, JW Broadcasting LLC, Jackson Television LLC, BrandMuscle, Inc. and AmeriVault Corp.

    Mary Modahl Mary Modahl
    Mary Modahl is an experienced research executive and independent consultant. Her recent projects include helping an investor group to start up a research company in pharmaceutical drug discovery; conducting consumer and company research to chart the likely path of consumer-directed healthcare; and helping a policy think tank and conference company partner to create the American Health Policy Network, a group of businesspeople, academics and policy-makers interested in supporting consumer-driven healthcare.

    Between 1987 and 2001, Modahl was an industry analyst and head of research for Forrester Research, a publicly traded provider of primary market research. Modahl's work focused on the impact of technology change in several industries—including banking and finance, media, travel, business trade and retail. In 2000, Modahl published a book on practical internet strategies for non-technology companies. As an analyst, Modahl spoke frequently at company and industry events and was widely quoted in national publications. She was profiled in The Wall Street Journal and the Boston Globe, and in 2000 was named to BusinessWeek's Top-25 in eCommerce. In her last 2 years with Forrester, Modahl ran marketing and events. As a member of the executive team, she helped grow the company from five employees to more than 500.

    Larry Weber Larry Weber
    Larry Weber is recognized as a visionary in applying technology to the communications field. He is the chairman and founder of W2 Group, Inc. ; a group of global communications companies. Earlier in his career; he started his own public relations company, The Weber Group, in 1987. Weber's personal interest and expertise in adopting technology to drive communications led to his founding of Thunder House, which was one of the first online marketing firms. Within 10 years, The Weber Group was the world's largest and most established technology public relations firm.

    Weber's philosophical style and international success attracted the attention of marketing communications conglomerate The Interpublic Group of Companies, which purchased The Weber Group in late 1996. Thunder House also was purchased by Interpublic and forms the core of its interactive marketing communications offerings. In early 2000, Weber was named chairman and CEO of Interpublic's Advanced Marketing Services group. In the summer of 2001, Weber engineered the merger of Weber Shandwick Worldwide and BSMG Worldwide to form the world's largest public relations firm. Weber continues to serve as founder of the company.

    Weber's first book, The Provocateur: How a New Generation of Leaders Are Building Communities, Not Just Companies, was published by Random House/Crown Business in January 2002. His second book, Marketing to the Social Web: How Digital Customer Communities Build Your Business will be published in June, 2007 by John Wiley& Sons.

    Tim Dibble Tim Dibble
    Tim Dibble is a founder and managing general partner of Alta Communications. In 1989, he joined Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co., which became Alta Communications in 1996.

    Dibble leads Alta's involvement in the wired and wireless telecommunications sectors. In this capacity, he has served on numerous boards of directors of telecommunications and media companies including South Texas PCS (STPCS), Telemedia Communications Inc. and WNP Communications, Inc. In addition to his telecommunications focus, Dibble has significant investing experience and has served on boards in the radio, television, cable and security-monitoring industries.

    He began his career in 1986 at the Bank of Boston in the Acquisition Finance Division, structuring and monitoring the performance of management buyouts in cash-flow industries. Dibble received a degree in economics from Wesleyan University . He currently sits on the boards of Year Up (yearup.org) and Big Brothers of Massachusetts Bay.

    Emily Green Emily Nagle Green
    Emily Nagle Green is chartered with continuing Yankee Group's leadership in navigating the global connectivity revolution as the president and CEO. She also sits on the Board of Directors for Yankee Group.

    Before joining Yankee Group, Green was the CEO of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), the preeminent research and consulting firm in the energy sector, and led its sale in 2004 to IHS Energy. Previously, Green served for 9 years in leadership roles with the IT advisory firm Forrester Research, helping the company grow from a privately held boutique to a publicly traded market leader. From 2001 to 2003, she was managing director, Forrester Research North America; she also launched and built the company's European operations from 1998 to 2001.

    Green is a communications technology and research veteran, and her tech-sector experience includes a variety of engineering and marketing leadership roles in computer-generated special effects, broadband communications and video services. She is a frequent speaker on the challenges and opportunities in connectivity change. Green is also the president of MITX, New England’s premier trade association for digital technology, marketing and media professionals.

    Green holds a B.S.L. degree in linguistics from Georgetown University and an M.S.E. degree in artificial intelligence and computer graphics from the University of Pennsylvania.

    Eliot Weinman Eliot Weinman
    Eliot Weinman is the president of Yankee Group's events and publishing division. Weinman is charged with producing groundbreaking global industry events and publications that investigate the challenges and opportunities of the global connectivity revolution.

    Weinman has created more than 150 tradeshows, dozens of trade publications and has consulted many of the world's leading technology companies. Before Yankee Group, he founded and sold four successful integrated media companies, the most recent of which is Trendsmedia, the events and publishing division of Yankee Group.

    In 2003, Weinman cofounded Robotics Trends, where he was instrumental in developing the largest robotics tradeshows in North America. Before Robotics Trends, he founded Intermedia Group and Software Productivity Group, now a leading integrated media firm. He also founded Application Development Trends magazine and coauthored landmark software research. Before his entrepreneurial days, he led advanced software groups at MIT's Draper Laboratory.

    Weinman holds a B.S. and an M.S. in computer engineering from Boston University, where he was awarded a Research Fellowship in artificial intelligence. He also holds a B.S. in accounting from the University at Albany, State University of New York.