Adhil Patel

Adhil is fascinated with why people do what they do, and brings that passion to the explanation and exploration of the human condition. In his role as Head of Thought Leadership, he is able to bring together cross-disciplinary learnings to develop a more holistic view of the world of the consumer.

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Alastair Gordon

Alastair is Managing Partner of Gordon & McCallum. One of Asia-Pacific's most experienced market research professionals, he has worked across sectors ranging from consumer goods to telecommunications and social policy. Previously, Alastair was Global Head of Custom Research R&D at the Nielsen Corporation. He has held senior positions throughout Asia at regional (Head of Custom Research in Asia-Pacific) and local level (Managing Director of the Nielsen companies in Philippines and Malaysia).

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Amy Janis

Amy joined Yahoo! in 2005, where she managed Media and Sales Insights focusing on Finance and Tech/Telco categories. Currently, she is Senior Manager of Strategic B2B Insights, managing primary research and thought leadership initiatives focusing on key advertiser audiences, media properties and consumer trends. She’s a 2011 recipient of an ARF Research Innovation Certificate. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Amy spent several years at Universal McCann where she began her career in media research, functioning as a lead researcher for clients including L’Oréal and Xbox.
Amy earned a Master’s degree in Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences at Columbia University.

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Annie Pettit

Annie Pettit, PhD is the Vice President of Research Standards at Research Now and the Chief Research Officer of Conversition Strategies. She has more than 15 years of experience as an online market researcher and specializes in social media market research, survey research, and data quality. Annie is a member of the CASRO, MRA, and ESOMAR social media research committees. She was previously the VP of Online Panel Analytics at Ipsos where she created their proprietary survey panel data quality system. Her expertise in research methods and data quality has been highlighted through numerous conference presentations, including ARF, CASRO, MRA ,MRIA, NetGain, and IIR.

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Bernie Malinoff

Bernie is President of element54, a Toronto & Montreal based strategic consultancy & full-service market research firm. element54 initiated groundbreaking research into Online survey design - “Sexy Questions, Dangerous Results?” and “Eyes Don’t Lie” (2009/2010), which have shaped industry dialogue and consciousness around the complex issues of emerging technologies in survey research.

Bernie has spoken at a cross-section of high profile events, including the MRIA (Toronto, Ottawa & Montreal), The Market Research Event (Las Vegas), Advertising Research Foundation (New York), CASRO (New York) and the MRA (Boston).

In 2010, Bernie was nominated for the Next Generation Marketing Research (NGMR) “Disruptive Innovation” Award. He is a Past-President of the MRIA Québec Chapter, and sessional lecturer at McGill University on Marketing and Research issues.

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Brian Cooper

Brian is a Vice President of the TNS North American Technology business and is an expert in digital market research with a wealth of experience in server side technologies including virtualization and the cloud. His experience has always focused in the technology space spanning B2B and B2C markets.

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Carl Marci

Dr. Marci is co-founder and CEO of Innerscope Research. Dr. Marci is the former Director of Social Neuroscience at the Massachusetts General Hospital and former Visiting Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Program in Media Arts & Sciences. He received his BA at Columbia University, his MA in psychology and philosophy at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and then completed his MD at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Marci is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and has extensive training in psychophysiology and neuroscience through two National Institutes of Health fellowships. He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed science journals, gives lectures internationally and is a leader in the new fields of social neuroscience and neuromarketing.

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Dan Brilot

Dan is responsible for Research and Development in the TNS Global Digital team based in London. His expertise lies in the adaptation of new internet technologies into the research process as well as the development of new research methodologies to understand the complexities of the evolving global digital consumer.

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Dominic Harrison

As Head of Global Trends, Dominic is responsible for developing and maintaining the Future Foundation’s international research offer. He has worked with a range of global clients on international projects (including BP and Nokia) and regularly speaks at the Future Foundation’s Changing Lives conferences and at external events. He is also editor of nVitro, the Future Foundation's trend-spotting service and regularly writes for the service, now in its seventh year.

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Dominic Gastes

Dominic is scientific co-worker at the Institute of Decision Theory and Operations Research (ETU) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He has finished his PhD (with distinction) and his research focuses on Innovation and Product Management, Lead User studies, Disruptive and Open Innovation, as well as Text Mining and Multi Attribute Decision Theory e.g. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). He started his academic career with a Diploma in Business Engineering (Dipl.-Wi.-Ing.) at the University of Karlsruhe (TH).

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Elias Veris

Interested in all things humans do, Elias started off by studying psychology. Soon realizing that lots of great things are done in within the business environment, a focus on consumer and work psychology, and an extra master in marketing management at Vlerick management school got him involved in the research world at InSites consulting. Now an R&D consultant, Elias further explores human behaviour and how to research and apply it to make it profitable for the marketing & HR department.

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Gregg Liebman

As SVP of CNN Ad Sales Research, Gregg is responsible for leading staff research analysis and strategy support for CNN News Group's Ad Sales division, which includes CNN/U.S.,CNN Headline news and CNN.com. When Liebman joined Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., he brought vast agency experience, working with media buyers, planners and advertisers. His background includes stints at Zenith Media Services, Inc., Optimedia International Inc., and Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide, Inc., providing research and analysis for clients like General Mills Inc., Georgia Pacific Corp. and Miramax Film Corp. On the communications side, Liebman has worked in the research departments of DoubleClick Inc. ad agency Foote, Cone & Belding Worldwide and MTV Networks' Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite/TV Land.

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Gregor Jawecki

In his role as director of Innovation Research at HYVE, Dr. Gregor Jawecki is responsible for co-creation and research projects in various industries. After his business administration studies and working for the product development team at Volkswagen of America in Auburn Hills, Michigan, he joined HYVE in 2004. As part of his PhD studies he focused on innovative Online Communities and in particular members’ motives to share their ideas with like-minded others and companies.

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Hoi Kee Wong

As a Design Research Consultant, Hoi Kee is responsible for translating user research findings into actionable, inspiring and meaningful insights for several innovation programs within Philips Design. My background lies in Industrial Design Engineering at University of Technology Delft, where I focused on user-centered design. Before Philips Design, Hoi Kee was a User eXperience researcher at Microsoft Dynamics and co-creation designer at Favela Fabric, social business consultancy, where she excelled in ethnographic research, usability testing and online co-creation.

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Jan Henric Stönner

During his time at HYVE, Jan Henric, worked with the Innovation Research Team on cases in the food industry. After completing his studies in business management and engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in the end of 2010, he joined the venture capital company Sirius Venture Partners where he supports the EcoTech Funds as an analyst. During his studies at the KIT he co-founded the entrepreneurial students’ society on campus and thus helped to raise awareness for this topic among students.

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Joeri Van den Bergh

Joeri is the co-founder of InSites Consulting, a global ‘new generation’ research agency with offices in Belgium, the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland and the Netherlands. He has extensive experience of all aspects of branding, marketing and advertising to kids, teens and young adults. His clients include global customers such as Lego, Nokia, Sony, MTV Networks, Danone, Unilever and Coca-Cola, for whom he has provided research and advice on how to target the youth market. As author and contributor to numerous journals, he also lectures throughout the world on marketing topics.

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Jon Rodriguez

Jon currently leads people research activities for the consumer lifestyle sector within Philips Design. He has extensive global experience in qualitative research methods both offline and online and has worked across all sectors of the Philips organization (Healthcare, Lighting, Consumer lifestyle. Jon acts as creative lead for variety of projects within the design and innovation areas. His expertise lies in bridging the gap between research and design, making insights meaningful and actionable in the front end of the innovation process. He holds a Bachelor of Design from the Elisava School of Design as well as an Msc in Strategic Design from Delft University of Technology. Prior to joining Philips Design he worked on several projects for Microsoft Research and Bosch-Siemens.

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Katrina Lerman

As a Researcher at Communispace, Katrina conducts in-depth studies that explore participation trends and social dynamics within private online communities, shed fresh light on current trends and engage consumers in real conversations about their lives. Her work serves both internal and external clients, helping to provide thought leadership, support Communispace's value proposition and inform our best practices. Kat is also Communispace’s Corporate Videographer; she uses her expertise to craft member-generated content into videos that bring the consumer to life. Kat graduated from the University of Connecticut with a degree in Sociology and Statistics, and holds a certificate in Media Production from Emerson College and a certificate in Sports Journalism from Boston University.

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Kristin Luck

Kristin has diverse background that includes a strong technical knowledge of online research systems & new product development, combined with traditional research experience. She continues to be a tireless innovator & has been an instrumental force in significant advancements in market research methods. Kristin is a regular speaker at industry conferences & a columnist for Research Business Report where she explores emerging research methods. She’s a 2010 recipient of the American Marketing Association’s 4 Under 40 Award, is a 2010 Stevie Awards finalist, & was included the Portland Business Journal’s 2011 Forty Under 40.

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Manila Austin

As Vice President of Research at Communispace Corporation, Manila leads an award-winning Research Team, an in-house think-tank that helps Communispace and its clients navigate the social media landscape, leverage the power of communities for insight and co-creation, and explore how communities deliver unique value to their members and the clients who sponsor them. Manila holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Suffolk University. She has worked with client organizations in various industries including financial services, telecommunications, consumer packaged goods, health care, social services, and educational institutions. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and frequently presents at conferences.

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Matteo Sorci

Matteo Sorci, PhD is a co-founder of nViso SA. Matteo received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Faculty of Telecommunication Engineering, University of Siena, Italy in 2001, and his doctoral degree in 2009 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) for his dissertation “Automatic face analysis in static and dynamic environments”. He is author of several articles and has presented at numerous international conferences on computer vision and artificial intelligence.

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Michael Bartl

Michael is CEO for HYVE, a leading innovation agency realizing co-creation solutions in order to design successful innovation. HYVE merges the competencies of industrial design, innovation research and community software development in order to create a unique set of knowhow and tools to create successful product and service innovations for their clients.

He has authored numerous articles and papers on the subjects of Co-Creation, Open Innovation, Netnography, Community-based Innovation and future developments in Innovation Management. Michael is a regular speaker at innovation and other industry conferences.

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Mike Cooke

Mike is a regular lecturer on market research as well as well-known speaker, having won several awards.

Previously Vice Chairman of the British Market Research Society, he is member of the Executive Editorial Board of the International Journal of Market Research.

He was part of the Committee redrafting the ESOMAR 26 Questions and currently sits as the Council delegate for the ESOMAR Professional Standards Committee.

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Nathan Eagle

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Jana (formerly txteagle), USA

As one of the world’s foremost experts on mobile phones in emerging markets, Dr. Nathan Eagle brings many years of experience to his position leading Jana, formerly txteagle.

Dr. Eagle graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, a master’s degree in Management Science and Engineering, and a master’s in Electrical Engineering. His Ph.D. from the MIT Media Laboratory on Reality Mining was declared one of the '10 technologies most likely to change the way we live' by the MIT Technology Review.

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Peter Harrison

Peter is an experienced researcher and amateur gamer. In 2009 he took up a post in BrainJuicer Labs where he has been developing cutting edge new tools such as DigiViduals (twice short-listed for ESOMAR Congress 2010). He is especially passionate about incorporating principles of behavioural economics into new research methods and, happily for him, gaming provides one way of doing this.

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Philip Sheldrake

Founding Partner, Meanwhile, UK

Philip Sheldrake is the author of The Business of Influence (Wiley, 2011) and the digital marketing chapter of The Marketing Century, a book celebrating the centenary of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

He is a Chartered Engineer, a Founding Partner of venture marketers, Meanwhile and serves as a Main Board Director of Intellect, the UK trade association for the tech industry as well as a Board Director for 6UK, a government-backed nonprofit that promotes adoption of new Internet protocols in the UK.

Additionally, Philip chairs the Chartered Institute of Public Relations group on measurement and evaluation, presents CIPR TV, and designs and chairs Internetome, the Internet of Things Conference.

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Ray Poynter

Ray Poynter is Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Vision Critical London office, responsible for development of the UK business. Ray has spent the last 30 years at the interface of change, research, and technology, having spent most of that time at director level with companies such as The Research Business, IntelliQuest, Millward Brown, and Virtual Surveys. Ray is in frequent demand as a workshop leader and webinar speaker, covering topics as diverse as social media, advanced quant, presenting, and scenario planning. Ray is the founder and organiser of NewMR, a collaborative venture to help co-create the future of MR.

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Sean Bruich

Head of Measurement Research, Facebook, USA

Sean Bruich leads Facebook's measurement research and consumer insights programs. His focus has been on developing innovative methodologies and fast, scalable research products to better understand how advertising and branded content impact user’s behaviors and perceptions. Before joining Facebook, Sean was with Google's Customer Labs and Quantitative Marketing groups, where he managed Google's quantitative advertiser research and later developed ad effectiveness measurement tools for advertisers. Previously, Sean studied Cognitive Neuroscience at Stanford University, utilizing tools such as fMRI and EEG.

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Sean Conry

Sean was awarded an MRIA Award of Distinction (2009, NGMR Disruptive Innovator Award (2010), was president of the MRIA(BC) and has presented at conferences for MRIA, CASRO and the MRA. Sean's passion lies at the intersection of research and technology. He partners with marketing & research professionals to implement technology-driven research solutions for global and boutique brands. He is an accomplished speaker, having presented at conferences for CASRO, the MRA and the MRIA and other organizations around the world, and is also a past President of the MRIA (BC Chapter).

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Simon Atkinson

Simon is co-editor of Political Communications: The General Election of 2010 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and of previous volumes. He is a judge on this year’s Management Consultancies Association & Internal Communicators’ award panels, as well as a member of the British Polling Council Committee. Prior to joining MORI in 1990, Simon graduated from Cambridge University with a first class degree in Social & Political Sciences.

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Tim Llewellyn

Tim has 10 years’ experience in high-tech start-ups and new business units pioneering new internet enabled wearable devices at the Swatch Group. He has a diverse background in software development, marketing, and sales for advanced audio and video processing devices in consumer electronics. Tim received his B.E. and M.E. (Hons) degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 1999 and 2001.

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Tony Marlow

Tony joined Yahoo!’s Corporate Insights division in January 2010, coming from Nielsen Online where he was Research Director for the Asia Pacific region based out of Sydney, Australia. He is an online research expert with special interest not only in media measurement generally, but specifically in online advertising effectiveness research and consumer generated media.

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Tom De Ruyck

Tom is Community Research Expert at InSites Consulting and responsible for InSites’ community activities in Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK. He is part of the R&D department, a team of 5 researchers who try on a daily basis to make market research more insightful for customers and more fun to participate in for respondents. Tom is invited frequently as a speaker at (inter)national congresses on market research. Recently, he won ESOMAR’s “Fernanda Monti Award” (Best Congress Paper 2009) as well as the American Marketing Association’s “4 under 40 – Emerging Leader of the Industry” award.

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