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Patrick Comer
CEO
Patrick has ten years of experience with start-ups as a founder, investor, and executive with seven years experience in the market research industry. In 2005, he joined OTX Research to improve sample acquisition and routing technology adding $1-2MM in EBITDA annually. In 2006, he started the Sample Services group at OTX which grew to $4MM in revenue in 2007. In 2008, he merged the group with the programming and hosting unit, RSX, and doubled the combined revenues to $15MM (25% of total OTX revenue). Ipsos announced its acquisition of OTX in January, 2010 for $71MM.
Previously, Patrick was the founder and Vice President for Operations of Sample Czar, an online sample broker, where he built the core technology and established the initial sales pipeline. In 2003, Patrick joined IFILM and founded the surveys group, doubling their revenue and creating new vendor relationships.
Patrick got his entrepreneurial start in the halcyon days of dot-com. He was Chief of Staff of govWorks, an e-government startup, which raised $65MM in the US. govWorks is also known for the documentary of its rise and fall, “Start-up.com,” in which Patrick has a few key scenes.
Patrick has his MBA from Columbia Business School and his BA from Sewanee: The University of the South.
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Michael McCrary
President
Michael has over fifteen years of experience in marketing, advertising, and research. In 2003, he joined Greenfield Online and played a significant role in the growth of the company into the leading online data collection provider. After Greenfield’s successful public offering in 2004 (Nasdaq: SRVY) Michael moved from Greenfield’s Wilton Connecticut headquarters to California to run the west coast division out of Encino. When Michael departed Greenfield in 2009, after the sale of the business to Microsoft for $486 million, he was the company’s SVP responsible for North America sales and marketing with a team of 30 sales professionals and a total revenue budget of $65 million.
Michael served as the Managing Director for Cint AB after over the past year where he built a solid sales, marketing, and operational strategy. Michael also served on the firm’s management team and technology steering committee. In October 2010, Cint licensed Federated Sample’s Fulcrum platform which brought tremendous efficiency and operational power and helped grow Cint’s presence in North America and Europe. Michael is passionate about technology and knows first hand the positive impact that Federated’s products can deliver to the market research industry. When Michael is not working he enjoys spending time with his wife and two children, playing golf, mountain bike riding, jogging, and an occasional hand of Texas hold’m.
Michael graduated with a B.S. from the Belk College of Business at UNCC with a concentration in Marketing
Jonathan Chua
Acting CTO
Jonathan has over twenty years of experience developing enterprise and commercial software as a developer, architect and project leader. Jonathan and Patrick Comer have worked together to build core technologies at both Sample Czar and Instant Gravity. Since 1996, he has been the CEO of the software development firm Duration Inc., which specializes in building software products for web and mobile devices. Through his leadership, Duration Inc. has played a founding role in the technology infrastructure of Klout.com and Onboard Informatics. In addition, Duration Inc. has successfully built software products for Microsoft, Singapore National Environment Agency, Singapore Tourism Board, and Sample Czar. Currently, Duration Inc. has over 20 software developers in offices in New York and Singapore.
Prior to his founding Duration Inc., Jonathan was an application developer at JP Morgan, Chase Manhattan Bank, and Smith Barney, specializing in Emerging Markets fixed income analytics. In 2000, he was a Founding Partner at Instant Gravity LLC, which developed new media and financial services technologies for such clients as CSFB, Bank of America, & DLJ.
Jonathan has been a speaker and lecturer on wireless/mobile technologies and internet databases. He has his BS in Computer Science from Colgate University.
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Christy Luquire
Vice President - Finance and Administration
Christy joined Federated Sample in Spring of 2010, bringing years of financial and management experience across multiple industries to the company. Based in New Orleans, her role is multi-faceted, focusing primarily on finance, human resources, and client service matters.
Prior to joining Federated Sample, Christy was a Vice President within Wells Fargo’s investment bank. She began her career with Wachovia, where she was selected to be a founding member of their Institutional Foreign Exchange group, generating over $10MM in first-year revenue and adding nine employees in Charlotte, London, and Hong Kong. Following the entrepreneurial Institutional FX role, she was selected to introduce FX to Wachovia’s fast-growing Texas middle market banking group. She established over 100 new client relationships in her first year, providing financial hedging solutions while carefully managing the overall client experience.
Christy is currently attending Wharton’s Executive MBA program and earned her BS in Engineering from Duke University.
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Diego Rodriguez
Vice President - Operations
As Vice President, Diego oversees Federated Sample’s Managed Services and Fulcrum support teams in addition to running Federated Sample’s Los Angeles office. Prior to joining Federated Sample, Diego worked for seven years at Ipsos North America as an Executive Director of MediaCT where he led the Multicultural team in charge of projects in the television, print and video game industries for clients in the U.S., U.S. Hispanic, European, Asian and Latin American Markets.
In conjunction with Emory University, Diego was selected for the development team in charge of building the marketing plan for the city of Atlanta in 2003. Prior to working in the United States, he worked in the International Department at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) as the Registrar Office Director in charge of student affairs. During this time, Diego gained experience in implementing and designing new strategies to improve productivity and efficiency in University systems, as well as methods for improving consumer satisfaction.
Prior to joining Ipsos (OTX), Diego completed a Certificate Program in Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA. He earned his MBA at ITAM in Mexico City while also acting as Professor of Strategic Management for Business and Actuarial Science.
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Suresh Kumar
Vice President - Technology
Suresh has over fifteen years of experience in both Product Management and Technology Consulting. He has built large scale enterprise applications with exacting quality and performance requirements. In 2009, he founded a technology strategy and outsourcing firm, Genius Ants Inc., which specialized in execution methodologies for startups and new businesses by implementing Agile Project Management.
Prior to Genius Ants, Suresh was a Product Manager and IT strategy consultant at E*TRADE Financial and Accenture. At E*TRADE Financial, Suresh led a large team in the development of a SAAS platform: Equity Compensation which handled over two thousand clients companies and sophisticated option pricing models built in. At Accenture, Suresh has been involved in several large scale IT transformations at the top-tier Investment Banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Credit Suisse. Suresh started his career as a software developer at Goldman Sachs, specializing in databases and user interfaces. As a result, he has ground-up knowledge in developing, delivering, and maintaining quality software.
Suresh holds an MBA from the Stern School of Business, NYU and a Masters in Computer Science from University of New Hampshire. At University of New Hampshire, Suresh was the top rated instructor in three out of five semesters for a Computer Science for Business course.
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Meredith May
Director - Sales
Meredith joined Federated Sample in the fall of 2010, which marked her return to the sample management business. She began her career in market research at OTX, under Patrick Comer’s supervision in the Sample Services department. While working with Patrick she learned the ins and outs of efficient management and routing of sample.
In her role as Director of Sales, Meredith supports the Business Analysts in their bids to clients and is responsible for all Managed Services revenue. She enjoys partnering with the other members of the Federated Sample team to help grow the client base and strengthen the capabilities and effectiveness of the infrastructure.
Meredith graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor’s degree in Radio-TV-Film before moving to Los Angeles. After six years in sunny California she relocated to New York City and started the Federated Sample office in Times Square.
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Patty Pomposo
Director - Project Management
As a Director, Patty ensures that all studies and projects are executed per client specifications and satisfaction. She has over ten years of project management experience, seven of those in the online market research industry.
Patty started in the industry managing one of the largest accounts at goZing/Greenfield and working on a broad range of other projects for them. In 2007, she joined the sample services team at OTX and played a key role in the rapid growth of the department, working on the most complex studies and developing and training new hires. In 2009, she was promoted to Director at Ipsos/Observer and managed a team of seven project managers.
Patty graduated from California State University-Northridge with a BS in Business.
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