Stephen Phillips
Lead Analyst

Stephen is a passionate advocate for the information industry. He believes Jinfo has a critical role to help clients maximise the value when buying information.

Stephen's expertise continues to be sought after. He currently serves as a non-executive director at M&A Monitor and Senior Advisor to Couranto UK Ltd.

His knowledge enriched "The Emerald Handbook of Modern Information Management". He is on the Business Information Review editorial board, and he led their annual survey.

Stephen's dedication extends to the wider information profession. He created a peer network for the UK's financial services industry. He also holds leadership positions with CILIP and SLA Europe.

His work with clients, suppliers and conferences keeps him at the forefront of the industry.

Before joining Jinfo, Stephen managed a global research team and extensive portfolio of suppliers at a global investment bank.

Stephen can be contacted at stephen.phillips@jinfo.com

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Articles by Stephen Phillips:


Opportunities for information managers in due diligence and third-party risk
Thursday, 11th December 2025

There are multiple opportunities for information managers to support their organisation’s due diligence and integrity research.

Here we capture some of the opportunities and recommendations from our new report.


News integrity and GenAI – the opportunity for information managers
Tuesday, 9th December 2025

A recent study* from the BBC and European Broadcasting Union (EBU) reveals the serious risks associated with using GenAI tools for news search.  

Jinfo has extracted the main insights, and produced a new report containing ten tactical and strategic actions for information managers.

Here is an overview of the issues, and two of the ten actions.


Jinfo wins CILIP’s inaugural “McFarlane & Ward Information Management” award
Thursday, 4th December 2025

The award recognises Jinfo’s work in supporting information professionals with independent research, product reviews, practical strategies and networking.


December 2025 update
Wednesday, 3rd December 2025

Contents:
  • Mitigating third-party risk
  • Review of Matchplat
  • Why you shouldn’t rely on GenAI for news.


Essential strategies for contract negotiations
Thursday, 30th October 2025

Jinfo’s recent "Contract negotiation role-play" Community session consisted of two vendor-client contract negotiating scenarios.

Following the session, we have published a detailed report of six highly-effective levers for vendor negotiations.

This blog gives an overview of the session, and describes two of the six key takeaways.