Information Experts

The multidisciplined talent and broad experience within the Information Experts executive team reflects our three-pronged approach to integrated communications: corporate strategy, creative services, and instructional design.

Marissa Levin

Chief Executive Officer

An instructional designer by education, a business leader and strategist by trade, and a marketer by temperament, IE founder Marissa Levin is a leading proponent of the integrated communications vision. She speaks and writes on the subject extensively and leads IE organizationally on key strategies and solutions for integrating communications for organizations across a wide range of vertical markets.

Marissa was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Women in Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Award and the Stevie Award.

Adam Levin

Executive Vice President

Adam Levin brings over 15 years of marketing and sales management experience to Information Experts. He is involved in several aspects of the business, including financial forecasting, employee recruitment and retention, project planning, and day-to-day HR operations.

Adam ensures that the organization has the intellectual, technological, and financial capital available to achieve the company's overall vision and mission, and to meet customer requirements.

Grant Connell

Vice President Corporate Strategy

Grant Connell is responsible for sales and operations as well as providing direction for strategic business objectives. Grant has over 25 years of experience in corporate strategic planning, including operations improvement, sales and marketing strategy, electronic commerce, and IT systems design, development, deployment, and management.

Previously, Grant was responsible for strategic business development, long range planning, business systems design, process engineering and reengineering for Fortune 500 corporations in the Manufacturing, Consumer Products, Healthcare, Financial Services, Information & Communications, Transportation, Energy, Technology, Government and Professional Services industries. Additionally, Grant was a founding director of a $300 million professional services firm, principal founder of nationally recognized CRM professional services practice and has led several turnaround ventures.

Daanen Strachan, Ph.D.

Vice President Government Solutions

Daanen holds a doctorate degree in Instructional Design and has extensive experience with a range of human capital management and training consulting services for the Federal government. Previously, Strachan held key leadership positions at several DC-area consulting firms.

While Strachan oversees all federal efforts, an immediate area of focus is serving the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Training and Management Assistance (TMA) program.

Dave Derr

Vice President Instructional Design

David leads our training practice, whether multimedia- or Web-based instruction or instructor-led training. He also lends information design support to creative marketing communications projects as well.

David supports projects through implementation of the most recent learning theories and formalized instructional systems design methodologies. By integrating this approach with cutting-edge technology and superior creative resources, Dave and his team have created widely used computer-based training courses in a variety of subject areas.