Karissa Phillips

Karissa Phillips

Sr. Director, Marketing

Karissa Phillips serves as Senior Director of Marketing at The Intersect Group, where she leads brand strategy, messaging, and go-to-market enablement. She brings more than a decade of experience driving growth through brand clarity, strategic storytelling, and revenue-aligned marketing.

Prior to joining The Intersect Group, Karissa led marketing transformation and acquisition integration efforts within high-growth staffing and professional services organizations. As head of marketing at ettain group, she played a central role in integrating six acquisitions over a two-year period, supporting revenue growth from $184M to $728M. Her work unified multiple acquired brands under a single go-to-market strategy, aligned executive leadership and sales teams around a cohesive narrative, and modernized digital and sales enablement platforms to support scale.

Across roles, Karissa partners closely with executive leadership to operationalize change and position marketing as a disciplined driver of growth. Her experience blends strategic rigor, creative execution, and integration leadership to support complex organizations through periods of rapid scale.