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Board of Directors

Officers

Jim Whaley

President

OvationMR

Finn Raben

President Elect

Amplifi Consulting

Anthony Jackel

Treasurer

Ferrara

Staff

Ed Keller

Executive Director

Market Research Institute International  

Directors

James Cummings

Formerly with Kenvue

Nick Graham

Vertemis

Pavi Gupta

Formerly with Chobani

Nancy Hernon

G3 Translate 

Jeff Krentz

Skye Isle Ventures

Priti Mehta

The Cobalt Curve

Sima Vasa

Oberon Securities

Tatyana Bacon

Zaxby’s 

Pamela Bracken

University of Georgia

Lisa R. Courtade

Organon  

Charlie Farr

Chick-fil-A 

Katie Gross

Zero100

Tim Kunkel

Fuel Cycle

Jon Last

Sports & Leisure Research Group  

Pam Forbus

Mondelēz International

Stephen DiMarco

Navigating Growth Partners

Niels Schillewaert

Conveo.ai

Zontziry (Z) Johnson

MRXplorer

Dan Fleetwood

QuestionPro

Ravi Parmeswar

Kastu Analytics

Jonathan Lepisto

US Bank

Ex Officio Subject Matter Experts

Jeffrey Henning

Researchscape  

Michael Mermelstein

Nichols Research 

Marc Ryan

Fluent

Varun Sharma

Gilead

Stan Stanunathan

iGenie.AI

Charlotte Sibley

Sibley Associates, LLC 

Ex Officio Members

Melanie Courtright

Insights Association

Marcus Cunha, Jr., Ph.D.

Terry College of Business, University of Georgia 

Kiel Norris

Center for Continuing Education, University of Georgia 

John Tabone

Canadian Research Insights Council