Yankee Group Executive Profiles

Emily Green

Emily Nagle Green
President and CEO

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 vice chairman of the board 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.

Jason Shore Jason Shore
Chief Operating Officer
Jason Shore is the chief operating officer of Yankee Group. Shore is responsible for the day-to-day global operations of Yankee Group, and oversees the company's financial planning and analysis, information technology infrastructure, human resources, order fulfillment and business processes. Shore works closely with President and CEO Emily Green to set company strategy and ensure operational excellence across the research, sales, events and publishing, client experience and corporate services teams.

Shore joined the organization in 2006 as chief financial officer, with a background in international corporate finance and operations and experience across marketing, sales, supply chain management as well as traditional finance functions.

Prior to Yankee Group, Shore was the co-CEO and CFO of Pharmedica Communications, a medical education company, and led its turnaround and sale in June 2006. Prior to Pharmedica, Shore served as CFO of start-up company SBX Management, working to create a stock exchange for small businesses. The bulk of his extensive financial experience has been with various divisions of Unilever, N.V., in the United States and Israel.

Shore holds a B.A. degree in history and math from Colgate University and an M.B.A. degree in finance from the University of Michigan.

Eliot Weinman Eliot Weinman
President, Events and Publishing
Member of the Board, Yankee Group
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 led the development the largest robotics tradeshows in North America. Previously, he founded Intermedia Group and Software Productivity Group, where he 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.

Mike Conley Mike Conley
Senior Vice President, Global Sales
Mike Conley is the senior vice president of Yankee Group's global sales organization. In this role, Conley is responsible for developing and executing strategies that drive new client acquisitions, increase client retention and improve the value of Yankee Group's global connectivity offerings to the market.

Before joining Yankee Group, Conley served as vice president of sales for Cambridge Healthtech Associates (CHA), a research and consulting firm serving the biopharmaceutical R&D industry. In that role, Conley was responsible for overseeing sales of CHA's Pathways Memberships program. Before CHA, Conley was at Forrester Research, where he served in a number of sales and management positions including global sales manager, director of business development for Forrester Consulting and regional sales manager.

Conley is a former member of the United States Marine Corps, honorably discharged in 1991 after serving positions in supply and logistics in North America and Japan.

Susan Coakley Susan Coakley
Senior Vice President, Client Experience
Susan Coakley is senior vice president of Yankee Group's Client Experience team and is chartered with delivering an exceptional experience as well as a unified voice to Yankee Group clients and external audiences. She holds overall responsibility for the company's product management, marketing communications, editorial and client services teams. Before this role, Coakley served as Yankee Group's vice president of sales operations and planning, focusing on growing and nurturing the company's client base.

Before Yankee Group, Coakley helped initiate and launch Bergen Business Networks, a startup that focused on bringing human resources executives into peer-to-peer forums. Earlier, she served as an independent sales planning consultant with firms including Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) and Alliance Development Corporation, collaborating with senior management on compensation design, organization development and internal process controls for distributed, multinational sales and service organizations. Coakley also spent 7 years in sales leadership roles with Forrester Research, launching a global account management sales and service organization, which aid the foundation for significant growth and client satisfaction. In addition, her career includes product management and competitive analysis at Prime Computer.

Coakley holds a B.S. from Southeastern Massachusetts University and is active in many town and civic organizations.

Zeus Kerravala Zeus Kerravala
Senior Vice President, Research
Zeus Kerravala, senior vice president, leads Yankee Group’s Mobilizing and Capitalizing on the Anywhere Network research group. Kerravala’s team analyzes the impact of connectivity transformation on the Anywhere Consumer and the Anywhere Enterprise, and probes the changes to behaviors, motivations and technologies that result.

Kerravala manages the research and consulting agenda that enables clients to meet the demands of the global connectivity revolution. Kerravala’s expertise involves working with customers to solve their business issues through the deployment of infrastructure technology.

Before Yankee Group, Kerravala was a senior engineer and technical project manager for Greenwich Technology Partners, a leading infrastructure consulting firm. Earlier, he was the vice president of IT for Ferris, Baker Watts, a mid-Atlantic brokerage firm, deploying corporate-wide technical solutions to support the firm’s business units. Kerravala was also an engineer and technical project manager for Alex. Brown & Sons, where he was responsible for the technology related to the equity trading desks.

Kerravala holds a B.S. degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.

Ashvin Vellody Ashvin Vellody
Senior Vice President, Research
Ashvin Vellody, senior vice president, leads Yankee Group’s Building and Powering on the Anywhere Network research group. Vellody’s team focuses on tracking the technologies that are transforming Anywhere global connectivity, and advises network builder and operator clients on strategies to develop a technology ecosystem that has the capacity, intelligence, services, accessibility and security to enable the Anywhere experience. Vellody's expertise involves working with customers to solve their business problems in the areas of digital commerce and intelligent software applications.

Vellody has more than 15 years of expertise as a leader in defining IT strategy. Before Yankee Group, he was director of enterprise architecture and strategy planning at U.S. Cellular, where he oversaw IT planning, asset management and solutions architecture. Vellody also worked at Capgemini LLC as manager of consulting services, where he led the North American software engineering practice as well as oversaw consulting engagements and client relationships. Vellody has also held consulting and engineering roles at i-flex solutions and Asea Brown Boveri in India.

Vellody holds an M.B.A. degree from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He also received a bachelor of electrical and electronics engineering degree from the National Institute of Technology in Surathkal, India.

Wally Swain Wally Swain
Senior Vice President, Emerging Markets
Wally Swain is the senior vice president of Yankee Group's Emerging Markets group. Swain leads the Emerging Markets team, contributing research and consulting deliverables on fixed and wireless telecommunications. His analysis, demand modeling, forecasting and market reports provide Latin American clients with a global perspective on the connectivity revolution. Swain's expertise includes mobile telecommunications operations, M&A, strategic planning and organization design, alliance management and statistics modeling.

Before Yankee Group, Swain joined Focus Ltda. as a partner, after ending his term as CEO of COMCEL S.A. Earlier, he was COO of COMCEL. Before joining COMCEL, he worked for more than 20 years in several positions at Bell Canada. Swain's previous work included positions in the office of the president, financial modeling, strategic and corporate planning and gateways.

He is the chairman of the board of the Colombia-Canadian Chamber of Commerce and a member of the boards of Electrophone and IQ Outsourcing.

Swain holds an honors undergraduate degree and a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He speaks English and Spanish fluently, and comprehends French and Portuguese.

Phil Marshall Philip Marshall, Ph.D., SMIEEE
Senior Research Fellow, Technology Strategist
Philip Marshall, Ph.D., is senior research fellow, technology strategist who conducts telecom technology research, arming clients with the knowledge and tools to capitalize on the global connectivity change. He is focused on service providers' and vendors' perspective to investigate market and service opportunities and trends for connectivity systems. Dr. Marshall joined Yankee Group in 2000, holding various roles including managing Yankee Group's technology research.

Before Yankee Group, Dr. Marshall worked in various engineering operations, software design, research, due diligence and strategic planning roles in New Zealand, Mexico, Indonesia and Thailand for Verizon International and Telecom New Zealand. Dr. Marshall also cofounded a software company specializing in the development of database applications and was an electrical engineer at BHP New Zealand Steel.

Dr. Marshall holds a B.E. (honors) and a Ph.D. in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is also a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Berge Ayvazian Berge Ayvazian
Senior Advisor

As senior advisor at Yankee Group, Ayvazian provides thought leadership for Yankee Group's leading events and conferences, including 4G World, Mobile Internet World and WiMAX World. As co-chairman of 4G World, Ayvazian is responsible for the event's program and content design, including the selection of speakers that will moderate select panels and deliver presentations. Ayvazian is also a contributing editor to Yankee Group's 4G Trends industry portal and 4G World event Web site. He is regularly quoted in industry journals and is a frequent presenter and keynote speaker at other Yankee Group and industry events.

With more than 30 years of experience as a senior industry analyst and consultant, Ayvazian is respected across the industry for his knowledge of communications topics, including broadband service provider strategy, mobile network infrastructure, enterprise networking strategy, information technology and applications. Ayvazian's current area of focus is the convergence of broadband and mobile network technologies, and the emerging business and technology strategies of mobile broadband service providers. He was Yankee Group's chief executive officer from 1999 through 2001, and later served as strategy director for the Reuters Research and Advisory Unit.

Prior to joining Yankee Group, Ayvazian was a consultant and researcher with Kalba Bowen Associates and a member of the adjunct faculty at Boston University's College of Communication. Ayvazian holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bucknell University (1975) and a Master of Arts degree from the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania (1979).

Shirley Macbeth Shirley Macbeth
Vice President, Marketing and Communications
As vice president of marketing and communications, Shirley Macbeth serves as the "voice" of Yankee Group and is responsible for driving brand and message consistency throughout all company communications. Macbeth focuses on elevating the profile of Yankee Group and its Anywhere vision of ubiquitous connectivity throughout published research, the corporate Web site, collateral materials, public relations and direct marketing.

Before joining Yankee Group, Macbeth was senior director of marketing at Sybase iAnywhere, where she oversaw all product marketing and communications for the company's mobile enterprise software products. Macbeth's responsibilities included driving global lead generation across direct sales and partner channels as well as increasing the company's visibility via international marketing, public relations and events.

Previously, she served as director at Schwartz Communications, a leading high-tech public relations agency, and founded the company's West Coast office. She was also corporate communications manager at Pacific Telesis Group (now AT&T).

Macbeth holds a B.A. degree with honors in English and French from Colby College in Maine.

Jeffrey Breen Jeffrey Breen
Chief Technology Officer
As chief technology officer, Jeffrey Breen oversees the development and operation of Yankee Group's client-facing systems as well as all of our internal infrastructure and support systems. Breen and his team work to ensure that Yankee Group's insight and analysis are readily accessible by our clients, and that our employees remain connected and productive in our increasingly Anywhere world.

Before joining Yankee Group, Breen was the chief technology officer of Navient Corporation, a startup providing candidate screening and selection solutions for call center staffing. He held various leadership positions in the technology organization of Forrester Research, including responsibility for all client-facing and internal software development. In the mid-1990s, Breen built the Web development group at SNL Financial and implemented the first Web-based data collection system for its core data products.

Breen holds a B.A. degree in physics as well as astronomy and astrophysics from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. degree in astronomy from the University of Virginia. While working as an astronomer earlier in his career, he published and contributed to papers in The Astrophysical Journal, Science and various conference proceedings.