Liz Healy

Liz is a specialist qualitative researcher who has managed numerous studies in the hospitality, culture and education sectors. She also provides clients with project management and analysis of audience insights, digital evaluations and consumer trends, as well as harnessing publicity and marketing opportunities generated from research results.

Linda Findlay

Linda’s background in industrial and B2B research has given her valuable insight to business operations and market dynamics across a range of sectors, including financial, automotive, ICT, travel and pharmaceuticals. Linda combines market profiling and customer needs research to help clients set up new business units, develop new products and optimise communications strategies to bring them to market.

Richard Stevenson

Richard has a long history in research and has honed his experience in understanding market structures (segmentation and U&As), innovation (demand forecasting, pricing, pack and claims testing), brand positioning and tracking as well as comms development and evaluation (qual and quant). He has a passion in using leading edge research techniques to provide clients a new lens with which to view their customers and landscape.

Matthew Petrie

Matthew is a highly experienced researcher whose work has spanned the sectors of media, hospitality, consumer products, policy and arts & culture. Matthew has directed innovative research focusing on digital engagement and also specializes in keenly understanding the impact of technology on his clients’ businesses and advising them on maximizing its potential to achieve their goals.

Georgina Woodley

Georgina has a background in strategy firstly at Deloitte, Promina and AAPT before completing her MBA and starting her agency career at Forethought Research. She offers clients strategic counsel on issues ranging from value proposition development, identification of white space opportunities, managing customer engagement to communications development. Georgina is passionate about providing clear guidance on how her clients’ can best to achieve their objectives.

Piers Lee

Piers has worked in research and consulting in Asia since 2000. Specialising in ‘the new’: be it new products, new markets, or new categories, he helps companies identify market opportunities through innovative research solutions.

Max Willey

Having researched video on demand, dual screen, video gaming and digital TV, Max is an expert in visual media and communications. His work in product placement was instrumental in winning the 2013 MRS Media and Advertising Award, and has been covered in Marketing Magazine and on Radio 4. He is a member of the MRS and co-chairs the MRG.

Tim Sander

Tim is a highly accomplished and experienced researcher, operating across the transport, hospitality, travel and leisure sectors. Tim’s passion, curiosity and his drive always to deliver something different enable him to perceive connections in data that others might miss. Over recent years Tim has helped brands to launch in new markets or to improve their market positioning.

Jon Young

Jon regularly works on visitor evaluation, marketing effectiveness, contract compliance and market understanding studies, using a range of qualitative and quantitative techniques. He runs BVA BDRC’s Holiday Trends study, which receives over 750 downloads annually and is regularly featured in the UK press. He also speaks at industry seminars.

Tim Barber

Tim has developed a methodology which enables F2F and telephone surveys to be transferred online, whilst maintaining ‘true’ representivity. This work was shortlisted for an MRS Award, and he co-authored a peer-reviewed paper, published by the IJMR. Tim spoke about its application at the international MRG conference in Berlin.