Meet Stephanie Atkinson

Stephanie Atkinson

Stephanie Atkinson provides strategic insights, key trends, market intelligence, industry modeling/forecasting, strategic research, and advisory services for technology companies, enterprise executives, and government leaders across the globe. She is the founder and CEO of Compass Intelligence, a 20+ year old leading tech advisory and market research firm based in Texas. She also founded vMarque, a marketing agency focused on smaller and fast growing companies. Her expertise are centered around B2B technologies including mobile, IoT, edge AI, automation, logistics, and physical AI. She is well known for simplifying complex topics, while educating and engaging executives, leaders, and managers who seek contextual information to help grow business, companies, and strategic initiatives.
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Mrs. Atkinson has been recognized as 150 women B2B thought leaders and influencers to follow in 3 consecutive years by Thinkers360, and was listed as the #2 top thought leader and influencers in the Internet of Things. She has been listed in the weekly IoT Community "Top Ten" IoT leaders to follow on numerous occasions. She has also been listed on the Top 100 Wireless Technology Experts by Today's Wireless World and the 50 Most Influential Women in Internet of Things by IoTi. She is an author and contributor to CIO.com, and has been quoted in numerous trade publications including CNN Money, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and CEO Magazine.
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Mrs. Atkinson serves as an executive/board advisor for Elevate Communities and Texas A&M Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Department. Prior to launching Compass Intelligence, Ms. Atkinson held positions at Frost & Sullivan, In-Stat/MDR, Texlink Communications (formerly Taylor Communications Group), and Alcatel USA (now Nokia).

Ms. Atkinson holds a B.S. in Industrial Distribution from the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University and an M.B.A. with a concentration in Management of Technology from the University of Texas at San Antonio.  She also volunteers for the McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship at Texas A&M University and Heritage School in Fredericksburg, TX. She resides in Bandera, Texas, the 'Cowboy Capital of the World,' with her husband and 2 sons.