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Mariner Promotes Sally Phillips to Vice President of Marketing

Submitted by: Jill Purdy on Nov 02, 2011 at 6:52 pm Tagged with: Analytics, Business Intelligence, data warehousing, Marketing, Vice President Source: Mariner

Continues Focus on Reaching Customers and Partners

November 2, 2011 – Charlotte, NC – Mariner, a leading business intelligence and analytics company, has promoted Sally Phillips to Vice President of Marketing. In her new role, Sally will have greater responsibility for creating, managing, coordinating and executing Mariner’s marketing strategies.

Sally has been with Mariner since October 1999. Her tenure is surpassed only by Mariner’s co-founders, Philip Morris and Joseph Guy.

“By promoting our mission, our people, our processes and successful track record, Sally has helped make Mariner a recognized leader in business intelligence, data warehousing and performance management,” said Phil Morris, CEO and Co-founder. “Sally has forged and leveraged relationships with key partners, like Microsoft, which have helped us grow. She has also worked to preserve and communicate the firm’s culture and history.”

About Sally Ann F. Phillips
Sally Phillips has 20+ years of experience in high-tech marketing, the last 12 with Mariner, an award-winning Microsoft Gold Partner specializing in business intelligence, analytics and performance management. An enthusiastic promoter, Sally’s career has included positions in high-tech, government, international and social services sectors. As Vice President of Marketing for Mariner, Sally overseas marketing, planning and communications with customers, partners, prospects, employees and friends of the firm. Charged with telling the Mariner story, she specializes in translating technical concepts into plain language for the rest of us. A proud Hokie, Sally earned a BS in Marketing from Virginia Tech, an MS in Systems Management from the University of Southern California and an MBA in International Business from The George Washington University.

Prior to joining Mariner, Sally was NC Project Manager for HIAS, a non-profit organization where she let a statewide program to resettle refugees from Eastern Europe and the Middle East in North Carolina. Earlier in her career, she established Frank Communications, a marketing communications, public relations and event management firm; served as Adjunct Professor at Strayer University, teaching marketing and advertising; and held a variety of marketing and sales positions for government contractors in the US and Europe.
(Connect with Sally on LinkedIn.)

About Mariner

For more than a decade, Mariner has helped clients in the utility, healthcare, education, media, manufacturing and other industries organize, use and share data to improve productivity, collaboration and decision making. Mariner specializes in helping clients leverage their data through the use of business intelligence, data warehousing, business scorecards and performance management dashboards. Equipped with Mariner’s solutions, organizations achieve financial and operational goals and improvements in organizational alignment – from senior managers to front line workers. Mariner has emerged at the forefront of performance-based, improvement-centered technology solutions, earning recognition as Microsoft’s 2010 US Public Sector K12 Education Partner of the Year, TDWI’s 2009 Best Practices Implementation Partner Award Winner and Microsoft’s 2008 Worldwide Partner of the Year in Performance Management Solutions. Mariner is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner with competencies in Business Intelligence and Data Platform. Mariner-Insight to Achieve. www.mariner-usa.com.

For additional information contact:
Sally Phillips, Vice President of Marketing, Mariner
Tel. 704.943.5222
Email sally.phillips@mariner-usa.com

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