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 sits on the Board of Directors for Yankee Group. She is also author of the book ANYWHERE: How Global Connectivity is Revolutionizing the Way We Do Business, which offers an unprecedented road map for how ubiquitous connectivity will impact our lives.

Before joining Yankee Group, Green was 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 nine 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

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 startup 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 U.S. 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

President, Events and Publishing

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. He also sits on the Board of Directors for Yankee Group and is the author of the book Harnessing the Mobile Internet, an executive guide to the world of mobile communications.

Weinman has created more than 150 trade shows and dozens of trade publications and has consulted for 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 co-founded Robotics Trends, where he was instrumental in developing the largest robotics trade shows 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 co-authored 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

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

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 seven years in sales leadership roles with Forrester Research, launching a global account management sales and service organization, that aided 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

Distinguished Research Fellow

Zeus Kerravala, distinguished research fellow, leads the Research Council and is chartered with the responsibility of providing thought leadership to the research organization. Comprising senior research leaders, the Research Council provides outreach to clients and the broader Yankee Group community, as well as ensures that the company's research agenda addresses the needs of business leaders. Kerravala drives the strategic thinking of the research organization and helps shape the research direction. Much of 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 corporatewide 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 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.

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.

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

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.