CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading global futures consultancy, The Futures Company, announces two senior appointments in the US. These hires are part of the strengthening and expansion of The Futures Company which has recently restructured its global senior management. Says Kevin Brown, recently promoted to CEO, North America, "Our client mission of unlocking futures requires that we bring exceptional talent and distinctive insights to everything we do."
Steve Levine joins as Senior Vice President to head up the Future-Facing Quantitative Practice. This global practice combines futures insights and custom surveys for strategic consulting around consumer futures, category futures, brand futures and company futures.
Steve brings over twenty years of experience both as a research client and supplier in product management, marketing research and business development. He spent more than twelve years at GlaxoSmithKline with line responsibility for several key product and business areas and most recently ran a private marketing and research consultancy for life sciences companies.
With a proven talent for building teams and growing businesses, Steve will play a key role in the global growth strategies of The Futures Company. Says Brown, "Steve stands out as the sort of leader who can build a practice to consistently deliver strategic insights that bring value to clients. We are very pleased to welcome him to The Futures Company."
Christine Baskin returns as Senior Vice President, Research & Consulting in the Future-Facing Quantitative Practice, having previously spent more than 20 years with Yankelovich, which merged in 2008 with Henley Centre HeadlightVision to create The Futures Company.
Christine has also held senior positions and led practice groups at BioVid, TNS Healthcare, and Knowledge Networks. Most recently she oversaw the establishment of the Marketing Research Practice for the Quantitative Solutions Group at Merkle, a customer relationship marketing agency.
Says Brown, "Christine's wealth of experience in segmentation, communications, forecasting and insights as well as her special strengths in managing and growing client relationships will be crucial to our success in the future. We are very excited that she is returning to our team."
For further information please contact
(US) Teri Kuhn, +1-919-932-8667 [email protected] or
(UK) Karen Kidson +44 (0)20 7955 1833 [email protected]
About The Futures Company
The Futures Company - the coming together of Henley Centre HeadlightVision and Yankelovich - is a global trends and futures research and consultancy business. Our mission is to "Unlock Futures" for our clients.
We integrate our proprietary survey data with observational insights to create deep and dynamic perspectives on the consumer trends shaping our clients' businesses around the world. And we enrich these perspectives with future-facing qualitative and quantitative research and with trends and futures consultancy.
This unique combination of capabilities enables us to help our clients uncover new ways to understand and segment their consumers, identify future sources of value and build powerful brand connections.
The Futures Company is part of the Kantar Group of WPP, with offices in London, New York, Chapel Hill, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Mumbai and Delhi.
SOURCE The Futures Company
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