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Rafal Gajdamowicz
CEO
Rafal Gajdamowicz
CEO
- Over 20 years of MR industry experience
- Extensive and hands-on international primary research experience across most survey methodologies: Market Segmentation, Opportunity Assessment, Market Sizing, Product Pricing, Market Trending, Concept Development, Message Testing, Channel Behaviour, Customer Satisfaction, Branding, Customer Relationship and Loyalty and others
- Spearheading company's business in Europe & beyond by ensuring excellence in execution and global service to the clients
- Served as MD of MRops (currently SSI), held a senior level role at Ugam, RONIN and at NFO and BJM. Was also a Board member at fast.MAP
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Rashesh Raval
Managing Director - APAC
Rashesh Raval
Managing Director - APAC
- 10+ years of experience in market research, information technology, business process outsourcing, operations management, process management, and client servicing
- Manages Azure’s delivery operations including data collection, programming and data processing teams
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Glen Collins
Senior Vice President - Client Services
Glen Collins
Senior Vice President - Client Services
- 20+ years working in Global Market Research
- Holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, and Post Graduate Certification in Public Relations from the University of Texas at Austin
- Focused on supporting Azure’s strategic clients by providing cost effective data acquisition solutions and superior client service
- Experienced in working with a variety of clients from Global Market Research Companies, to Consulting and Professional Services Firms
- Previously worked for such well-known companies as Bank of America, Datamonitor, Nielsen, Bloomberg, and Moody’s Corporation
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Justin Blomgren
Vice President - Client Development
Justin Blomgren
Vice President - Client Development
- Justin brings an extensive experience of over 15 years in sales in a wide array of industries and a unique specialization in the market research sector. Prior to joining Azure Knowledge in 2022, Justin spent 10 years with full-service research firms as the Director of Business development.
- Justin is a natural communicator and ‘people person.’ He is not a ‘salesy sales guy’, but rather a collaborator, team partner, and insights expert who listens, who cares deeply, and who understands client needs in order to help them identify their best path forward.
- In his spare time Justin can be found with his 8-year old son Chase at one of Atlanta’s many state parks, riding their electric scooters!
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Robert Clark
Senior Vice President - Client Services
Robert Clark
Senior Vice President - Client Services
- Responsible for implementing Azure’s business growth in North America through new client acquisition, building existing and new client relationships, marketing and branding, and augmenting sales revenue through other initiatives
- More than 20 years of experience in the Market Research and Consulting fields at various levels, and has managed organizations at executive levels, including as Partner and Co-founder
- Bob has worked with Nielsen, Lieberman Research Worldwide, ORC, and other firms in the Market Research industry
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Surendra Das
Vice President Business Development (Geospatial)
Surendra Das
Vice President Business Development (Geospatial)
- Mr. Das bring on board 20 years’ experience across diverse sectors. Before to Azure he was associated with different reputed Organization like Arcadis, Rolta, and REPL in senior position.
- Holds a master degree from BHU with lean six sigma certification. He has credited six research papers in different high impact scientific journals.
- He has worked on complete life cycle of several development projects especially Remote Sensing, Geospatial, Photogrammetery, Navigation, Land Base, Utility, Hydrogeological, Defence and Web GIS. He is excellent expertise in bid-management, pre sales activities, techno-commercial sales, project management, and operational management. He is very sound in Geospatial and Hydrogeological Software products.
- At Azure, he is spearheading the GIS operations taking charge from business development to delivery.
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Sahar
Senior Manager - Client Services – North America
Sahar
Senior Manager - Client Services – North America
- Over 10 years of experience in the market research industry including client servicing, operations and Call Center management
- Experience executing projects across various industry sectors: FMCG, BFSI, Auto, Healthcare and covering different types of methodologies: Online, CATI, IDIs, FGDs, CLT, F2F, CAPI, PAPI
- Delivering projects across 50+ geographies: North America, South America, Europe, Asia/APAC and Middle East
- Previously worked with Nielsen and Kantar.
- Good command of technology; holds a Bachelor Degree in Engineering and a Postgraduate Diploma in IT, a Six Sigma Belt holder.
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H.Sivaramakrishnan
AVP, Research Services
H.Sivaramakrishnan
AVP, Research Services
- 15 Years of experience in Market Research Industry.
- Extensive knowledge in terms of Phone Centre operations & end to end full service projects.
- Previously worked at Kantar - Global Delivery Centre managing the overall Project Management unit of Africa, Indonesia & China region.
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Rahul Mehta
CFO
Rahul Mehta
CFO
- Qualified Chartered Accountant with 10+ Years of Global Finance and Accounts experience
- Responsible for leading Finance, Legal & Compliance Domain for all group entities of Azure
- In-depth experience in managing Global Finance & Accounts functions by leading cross-functional/multi-cultural teams in matrix structure, leading Corporate Governance initiatives including Group Internal Audits, Sourcing and managing funds, Payables, Receivables, Big 4 Audits, Financial planning, Budgeting and analysis, Pricing and financial modeling, Management dashboards and Investor reporting, Legal and Compliance – across geographies