Meet our team of professionals dedicated to unleashing the 3Ps.
Tom Parry
Tom Parry is President of Integrated Benefits Institute.
Before co-founding IBI, he served 11 years as Research Director at the California Workers’ Compensation Institute. His research at CWCI encompassed a wide variety of topics in workers’ compensation, including medical treatment patterns, vocational rehabilitation costs and effectiveness, legal costs and trends, medical utilization, mental stress claims, and physical therapy patterns of care. While at CWCI, Parry was engaged in some of the earliest research and analysis on 24-hour coverage and integrated benefits.
Parry speaks on integrated benefits and health and productivity issues at conferences and symposia in the United States and internationally. He served for five years as research advisor to the Roadway Express Inc. Medical Board. Parry received his bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.
tparry@ibiweb.org
Brian Gifford, Ph.D.
Brian Gifford is the Director of Research and Analytics at the Integrated Benefits Institute.
Brian joined IBI in September 2008 and is responsible for a variety of research and analytic programs focused on the investment value of a healthy, high-performing workforce. Brian came to IBI from the RAND Corporation, where his research focused primarily on workforce recruitment, training, performance and retention. Prior to RAND, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Scholars in Health Policy Research Program at the University of California, Berkeley. He has additional expertise in the sociology of organizations.
He received his bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in sociology from New York University. His Ph.D. dissertation on institutional determinants of public social welfare spending received the American Sociological Association’s annual Dissertation Award in 2004.
(415) 222-7217
bgifford@ibiweb.org
Skyler Parry
Skyler joined IBI in September of 2009. He leads IBI's occupational/non-occupational disability and leave benchmarking program as well as develops IBI analytics products, reporting, and modeling tools. He has led the national IBI conference on health and productivity and participates in webinars and seminars on absence, productivity and related issues.
He received his bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of California, San Diego.
Erin Peterson
(415) 222-7283
epeterson@ibiweb.org
Marshall Riddle
Marshall Riddle is the digital marketing manager at the Integrated Benefits Institute.
Marshall joined IBI in July 2018 and is responsible for administering digital media channels and marketing technology.
Brandon Roberts
Brandon Roberts is the Director or Operations at the Integrated Benefits Institute.
Brandon supports enterprise-wide operations for IBI including human resources, finance, office infrastructure and business-critical operations for the Institute.