Jay Lassman

Practice Leader and Senior Analyst

Enterprise and Vendor Professional Services

Jay Lassman is an IntelliCom Analytics practice Leader with responsibility for professional services engagements that provide strategic guidance to end user organizations on selecting and deploying unified communications. On the supply side, he also specializes on vendor support initiatives that focus on improving marketing and sales effectiveness.

Mr. Lassman has more than 25 years experience in business communications product marketing, supported by a distinguished record of accomplishment selling technology-based systems to Fortune 500 companies. Before joining IntelliCom Analytics he was a Research Director with Gartner Inc., where he spent more than 14 years developing deep awareness and insights on Unified Communications and Contact Center technologies and the product portfolios of the major global vendors. Leveraging this industry knowledge, Mr. Lassman has developed significant expertise in providing planning, design, adoption, and migration guidance to end users on IP-based communications solutions for premises, cloud, and hybrid environments - particularly for business in the government, healthcare, and education market segments.

Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Lassman was with AT&T and Verizon (Bell Atlantic) where he had responsibilities that included product management, competitive sales and marketing strategies and providing field personnel with sales and technical support.

Mr. Lassman is a graduate of the Cooper Union in New York City, and received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering.