Senior Director, Business Planning & Analysis Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer ReportsJoAnne Boyd is the Senior Director, Business Planning & Analysis for Consumers Union (CU), the nonprofit product-testing and
research organization that publishes
Consumer Reports magazine and
ConsumerReports.org. Ms. Boyd is responsible for leading her team in objective and timely analysis to help in business and budgetary decisions
for all of CU's products and services and well as support improvement in organizational accountability and oversight.
She joined Consumers Union in 2003 to head up the newly created Business Planning and Analysis Department with the mandate
to bring increased rigor and centralized tracking of CU's performance goals and objectives, provide financial and operational
decision making advice and support, and oversee the business plans for all new products and services.
Before joining Consumers Union, Ms. Boyd spent 21 years working at Reader's Digest in various positions including accounting,
marketing, and finance. Her last position at Reader's Digest was Director of Finance, Books & Home Entertainment.
Ms. Boyd graduated from Iona College with a BBA in Accounting and earned a Masters in Finance from Pace University. She lives
in Somers, NY with her husband and two children.