Ipsos Marketing - Consumer Goods

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Lee-Markowitz Lee Markowitz
Global Chief Research Officer, Consumer Goods
Ipsos Marketing


As a recognized industry expert in innovation and forecasting, Lee Markowitz has worked in new product development for the past 30 years. He has developed and implemented validated models for forecasting product sales, measuring advertising effectiveness, optimizing product lines, and predicting source of volume. Many of these models are used by a number of companies today.

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He is the leader of global marketing sciences and technical product development at Ipsos Marketing, and is responsible for certifying all methodologies, products, and approaches developed are globally consistent, of the highest quality, and best in class in the industry. In addition, Lee provides advanced methodological and analytical support to Ipsos Marketing's consumer packaged goods clients, many of whom are giants in the consumer goods industry. In prior roles at Ipsos, he served in a similar capacity for the U.S. business and served as Vice President, Product Management, leading efforts to develop, extend, restage, market, manage, and support Ipsos Marketing products and online research capabilities. Before joining Ipsos, Lee was Vice President of Marketing Sciences at Walker Group and Vice President of Analytics at SAMI/Burke.

Lee has published in the areas of innovation, forecasting, marketing science, mathematics/statistics, and psychology. He has presented at key industry conferences including ESOMAR, The Institute for International Research, the Product Development & Management Association, The International Quality and Productivity Center, The Advanced Research Techniques Forum, The Marketing Research Industry Association, ORSATIMS/Informs, the Advertising Research Foundation, and the Council of American Survey Research Organizations.

He holds a Doctorate in Social Psychology and a Master's degree in Applied Statistics from Bowling Green State University and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Kenyon College.

 

Brad-Bane Brad Bane
Chief Operating Officer, Ipsos InnoQuest
Ipsos Marketing
Chicago, IL

In his role as Chief Operating Officer of the Ipsos InnoQuest division, Brad is responsible for developing and driving innovation and forecasting solutions among clients and employees. These responsibilities include setting division strategy, client-level consulting, and authoring papers/presenting at conferences.

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He has 20 years of marketing research experience, working with a diverse client base that has included consumer packaged goods companies, management consultants, technology-related businesses, and the healthcare industry. Though specialized in innovation and forecasting, Brad's experiences also span foundational research including segmentation, choice modeling, and tracking.

Brad graduated from the University of Iowa with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing and a minor in Russian, and earned a Master of Business Administration with majors in Marketing and Economics (and an emphasis in Market Research) from Indiana University in Bloomington.