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

As Founder and CEO of Information Experts, Marissa Levin leads IE’s efforts to create technology-based integrated communications solutions, human capital strategies, and learning strategies for 17 government agencies and organizations across a wide range of vertical markets. Ms. Levin’s key objective is to ensure customer and employee satisfaction and generate profitability for the company.

Through her knowledge of instructional design, organizational development, integrated communications, and other areas critical to business and organizational success, Ms. Levin has become known throughout the national business community as a leader and visionary. Under her leadership, Information Experts was named as a small business success story for USAID, and was named to the Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest Growing Companies for 2009.

Ms. Levin was named as a 2010 and 2009 SmartCEO Smart 100 participant by SmartCEO Magazine, which recognizes the top 100 CEOs in the region, and was named as a 2008 BRAVO Award winner, which honors the region’s 25 most influential women CEOs. She was also named as one of Washington’s Top 100 Technology Titans for 2009 by Washingtonian Magazine. She was a finalist for the 2002 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and for the 2004 Women in Technology Entrepreneur Leadership Award, and was also named as a finalist for the national Stevie Awards in three categories: Best Entrepreneur - Service Businesses; Employer of the Year; and Women Helping Women.

Ms. Levin has been featured in USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Business Journal, Working Mother Magazine, Washington Woman Magazine, Washingtonian Magazine, Inc. Magazine, BisNow, and on CBS as a successful woman business owner and working mother.

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.

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.

Amy Smith

Vice President, Human Capital

Amy is responsible for the human capital practice at IE. Her innovative and entrepreneurial philosophy to human capital management focuses on a holistic approach to recruitment, organizational change, strategic communications and education. She manages the business development, staffing and client engagements for the HCM practice. Previously, Amy started and led a high-growth HCM practice for a government consulting firm. Prior to that she had her own consulting firm for seven years that focused on education technology and professional development for the association/non-profit and commercial sectors. As published author and frequent industry speaker, Amy has extensive experience in the Federal, commercial and association/non-profit sectors. She can be found on Twitter (ABSmith) and writing on her HCM blog.