Jeremey Donovan

Current role at Insight Partners

Jeremey Donovan is executive vice president of revenue operations and strategy at Insight Partners, according to the Chicago Booth Executive Education faculty page and the University of Chicago's professional education profile. Attention's who-is-who entry describes the job as working with portfolio companies to grow their commercial teams. None of these pages gives a start date.^[1][2][3]

The faculty pages describe more than 25 years of experience across semiconductor engineering, product development and management, and sales and marketing leadership. The spelling of his first name varies across sources, appearing as Jeremey in headings and Jeremy in some body text.^[1][3]

Education

Chicago Booth lists a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University, a CFA charter, an MBA from Chicago Booth and a master's in data science from the University of Virginia. Attention's profile gives the years as 1996 for Cornell, 2002 for the MBA and 2022 for the data science degree.^[1][2][3]

Career path

Attention lists his earlier employers, without dates, as SalesLoft, CB Insights, GLG and the American Management Association, and says he was a group vice president at Gartner from 2000 to 2014, focused on marketing strategy and product management.^[3]

The same page says he has been an adjunct professor at New York University's School of Professional Studies, teaching statistical measurement and data presentation. Chicago Booth's executive education site lists him among its faculty.^[3][1]

Books

Donovan has written five books, per the Chicago Booth and Chicago professional pages. The best known is How to Deliver a TED Talk, which they call an international public-speaking bestseller; He also co-wrote Predictable Prospecting; the Chicago pages name the title but not a co-author.^[1][2]

Approach to revenue operations

The training he teaches pairs an engineer's habit of measuring things with go-to-market work. His degrees in electrical engineering and data science, combined with years in strategy at Gartner and sales operations at a software vendor, explain why his role at Insight centers on treating the revenue function as a measurable system.^[1][3]

Why he matters

Donovan sits at a junction that is increasingly common in venture and growth equity: an operator inside an investing firm who works with portfolio companies on revenue strategy and the commercial team. His books on presentations and prospecting, and his teaching at Chicago Booth and NYU, extend that practical advice to a wider audience.^[1][2][3]

On The Executive List

Jeremey Donovan is ranked No. 40 on The Executive List (October 2026) in the Chief Strategy Officers discipline. His title at Insight Partners is listed by Chicago Booth as Executive Vice President, Revenue Operations and Strategy. The ranking reflects The Executive Review's own editorial Trending Score; it is not an outside award, and placement on the list is never sold. View the October 2026 edition.