Welcome Philipp Mueller
Every once in a while, a special person comes along who you just know is the right person at the right time for the right role. For Outsell, and for me, that person is Philipp Mueller who joined us this week to take on a new and exciting role: Chief Analyst & Product Officer — a role we created to integrate data, analysis, engineering, and product in a new and essential way.
Prior to joining Outsell, Philipp was at Thomson Reuters for 17 years in a variety of positions including Global Head of Corporate Strategy, Global Managing Director of Strategic Partnerships, Vice President of Strategy for the Financial & Risk business, and numerous other roles, including in Product Management.
He has not only been a long-standing client with deep knowledge of us and our competitors from a “consumer standpoint,” he also ran Thomson Reuters’ Market & Competitive Intelligence function for more than seven years and has deep knowledge of the sectors we cover and serve: Legal, Tax, Risk, Science, Health, Financial, News/Media, etc., among others. Philipp understands implicitly the data, research, and analysis our clients need, as well as these essential markets from both an information and tech point of view. He is well networked in the industry, including with PE and consulting firms, and has an array of M&A, partnerships, and operational knowledge to be both hands on and pragmatic, while being equally forward-looking and strategic.
Philipp is an entrepreneur, loves to build product, and as a former doctoral fellow at Oxford with two advanced degrees in computer science and electronic engineering comes with both a product and technical mindset. This is essential to upping our game to continue modernizing the way we collect and manage data at scale, improve our analytic output, use AI, and drive more efficiency throughout the business.
We’ve made great strides in our platform and our digital transformation and like all things in a digital era they are never ending and can always be better. With the landscape changing so fast, it is essential we forge ahead with even more speed to deliver our clients the depth and hard-hitting insight they seek and which continue to differentiate us. Philipp’s talent and skills match where we are going and are a great fit culturally as well. Knowing him as a client and through the process of him joining us I can simply say, he is a great guy.
Many of you have heard me say “we are of the industry we serve.” It is a privileged position we don’t take for granted and never have. I’ve also always said practicing what we advise is a matter of integrity — it’s personal and it’s real.
And so, in this exciting era of AI, one needs next-generation knowledge and experience to get next-generation things done. It’s like marrying Greek — you have to have come from the culture to truly “get it.” There are things that don’t need translating and with Philipp’s background, degrees, history of “building product,” and, most of all, client empathy, there is a lot that doesn’t need translating. It’s exciting. Our entire team is over the moon we are welcoming him to our company and ultimately to you, our clients and market.
My mom used to say change is the only constant in life. It’s a matter of evolving or entropy, and for us it’s never been a choice. Move with speed, let machines do what they do best, while enabling people to do what they do best. Make a difference, have fun along the way, serve our industry so we can continue to serve the planet, and fulfill Outsell’s purpose. Please join me in welcoming Philipp. Get to know him on LinkedIn or, of course, here.