Phil wins an award!
Please help us congratulate Pre-Sales Support Manager Phil Kay (@Phil_Kay) for being honored with the Greenfield Challenge award.
The award was presented as part of the 25th-anniversary celebrations of the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS), held in Piraeus, Greece, Sept. 14-18. Kay attended the conference with JMP colleagues Principal Systems Engineer Volker Kraft (@volker_kraft) and Advanced Analytics R&D Senior Director Chris Gotwalt (@chris_gotwalt1).
What is the Greenfield Challenge award?
The Greenfield Challenge Award is named in honor of the late Tony Greenfield, a highly respected figure in the field of statistics. Greenfield was a passionate advocate for improving the communication of the value of statistical work. The award recognizes individuals who excel at this very challenge. This year’s award was a special edition, presented to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the ENBIS conference.
Winning the Greenfield Challenge is considered a huge achievement within the statistical community, and for Kay, it's particularly meaningful because it's a special 25th-anniversary version of the award. The award’s prestige comes from its focus on the crucial, often-overlooked skill of communicating complex statistical concepts in a clear and compelling way.
It's a testament to a practitioner's ability to not only understand statistics but also to make them accessible and valuable to others. Kay was nominated by a professional from a competing software company, which highlights the respect he has earned across the industry and reflects the friendly, collaborative spirit of the ENBIS organization.
What this means for Phil and JMP
For Kay, the award is a source of immense pride, validating his personal philosophy. “Finding new, interesting, and sometimes silly ways to talk about statistics is both a rewarding professional practice and a passion,” Kay said.
He sees his work, particularly his #DOEbyPhilKay project on LinkedIn, as a fun way to engage with the subject. Kay presented a lecture at ENBIS about this project, using visual explorations of statistics captured with JMP to demonstrate his approach.
For JMP, this recognition further solidifies our long-standing and positive relationship with ENBIS, a relationship Kay credits largely to the efforts of Volker Kraft. Kay believes the award is, in part, an acknowledgment of the collective work JMP colleagues have done to support the conference over the years. This award celebrates the JMP team's commitment to advancing the field of statistics and communicating its value, reinforcing our position as a key partner in the global statistical community.
Kay will kick off Discovery Summit Online on Wednesday, Sept. 24 at 12:30 p.m. EDT, with a keynote JMP’s Superpower is Multidimensional Vision. Be sure to register ahead of time so you don't miss!
Phil Kay accepts prestigious Greenfield Challenge award at ENBIS25
Company CultureJMP NewsSalesRe: Phil wins an award!Congratulations Phil, well deserved. When it comes to communicating complex statistical concepts in a clear and compelling way, #DOEbyPhilKay is the first thing that comes to my mind. Dr Charlie would be proud 
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Re: Phil wins an award!Well done Phil. You are a master of communicating statistical methods and outcomes with relevance, brevity, and simplicity to to help motivate for broader and deeper use by users in our core market.
Re: Phil wins an award!So well deserved! Congratulations Phil.
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Re: Phil wins an award!Congratulations, Phil. It is so great to see you recognized by ENBIS. Well done.
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Re: Phil wins an award!Huge congrats, Phil! It's awesome to see your passion and creativity recognized like this. We're all so lucky to learn from you!
Re: Phil wins an award!Congratulations, Phil! Your ability to communicate the real-world value of statistics, in a way that anybody can understand, is second to none. Looks like ENBIS rightly agrees.
Re: Phil wins an award!Well done, Phil!
Re: Phil wins an award!Congratulations, Phil. This is, in my opinion, the biggest and most difficult challenge in statistics, communicating statistical concepts to non-statisticians.
Re: Phil wins an award!Quite deserving! Congrats Phil.
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Re: Phil wins an award!Way to go Phil. Congratulations! I always learn something from your talks.
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Re: Phil wins an award!Congrats Phil, such a great news to lightup my day
Re: Phil wins an award!Thank you very much, Phil, for all your work on DOE. JMP needs evangelists like you to help democratize this methodoly among our users. This award is therefore a foregone conclusion. Congratulations.
Re: Phil wins an award!Congratulations on your recognition!
Re: Phil wins an award!Congratulations Phil! Well deserved, you do an amazing job of communicating complex statistical concepts. Taking complex mathematical concepts and articulating in non-mathematical terms is a rare skill indeed.
Re: Phil wins an award!YAY!! Congratulations, Phil! You are indeed a special "unicorn" with many talents. We are so lucky to have you!
Re: Phil wins an award!Congratulations, Phil! So happy that you are being recognized for the amazing work you do.
Re: Phil wins an award!Well deserved! I've spoken with many customers over the years that have referenced your LinkedIn posts. Congrats on winning this valued award Phil!
Re: Phil wins an award!Congratulations Phil, and very well deserved
Re: Phil wins an award!Congratulations, Phil! Very well deserved.
Re: Phil wins an award!Thanks everyone. It was really nice to be recognised by this organisation. I'm not sure that I would be here at JMP now if I hadn't attended some of the early ENBIS conferences when I was just moving from chemistry to statistics.
