LINQ, the premier software provider exclusively serving K-12 business operations of all sizes, announced the addition of Philip Hartman as the company’s new chief revenue officer, a move which complements the appointment of Laura Thorn as chief customer officer and hiring of Christine Pribilski as chief marketing officer. These hires reflect LINQ’s strategic focus on reinforcing a customer-centric leadership team while strengthening the company’s go-to-market strategy.
Hartman was most recently the chief revenue officer for education technology company TeachTown. He has more than 20 years of experience building successful revenue operations for education providers and is focused on ensuring sustainable growth through the development of strong and lasting customer relationships with K-12 school districts.
“Our work at LINQ presents a unique and rewarding challenge: to make the school operations experience as seamless as possible for school districts, administrators, parents and students,” Hartman said. “We’re committed to building a sustainable growth model that will allow us to continue to connect school districts with all of the tools they need to do their jobs in one centralized solution.”
The trio’s expertise is critical in supporting LINQ’s go-to-market strategy, and the company’s overall goal of providing school administrators with a simpler path forward consisting of fewer headaches and more benefits that make it easier to run the business of schools.
“Every decision we face is made with one simple question in mind: How can we improve the school experience for our customers, and ultimately for their parents and students?” Thorn said. “I intend to continue our work to improve every step of the LINQ experience for our customers, including the successful rollout of the refreshed LINQ Connect App, which allows parents to easily view their student’s lunch and breakfast menus and make account payments.”
Pribilski and Thorn have already been hard at work building programs that allow LINQ to better communicate with and serve its customers, including scaling up the company’s marketing and customer success teams, developing deep customer relationships and unifying payments, nutrition and workflow operations for district administrators nationwide.
“Districts today are contending with fewer resources and greater complexity leading them to search for ways to streamline their back-office operations so they can maximize their impact in the classroom,” Pribilski said. “At LINQ, we’ve built a culture and operation that is relentlessly focused on delivering best-in-class, unified solutions that support customers on their journey to modernization.”
Pribilski joined LINQ as chief marketing officer in January 2024. Her expertise in building high-performance marketing teams was cultivated from experience serving as chief marketing officer for IT services provider SoftServe and follows more than 18 years of experience working at IBM, where she led rebranding efforts and global go-to-market strategy for IBM Cloud.
Thorn has been with LINQ for almost two years, where she has been responsible for driving growth in the company’s customer relationships while serving in roles including senior vice president of customer experience and vice president of implementation and services. She also previously served as vice president of professional services at Unanet and as vice president of implementation and onboarding for Frontline Education. Thorn’s work is focused on improving the client experience, increasing user adoption and maximizing the use of LINQ solutions.
“The LINQ executive team has been selected for their ability and drive to create and sustain the strong business framework that has made us the go-to provider for school administrators looking to simplify their operations,” said Bryan Jones, CEO of LINQ. “We will continue to provide school leaders—and their parents and students—with the software they need across nutrition, payments, ERPs and forms and workflows.”
Source: Businesswire
