have joined the Perceptive team this year include Jackson Humphries, Sam Tremain, Rohan Cronje, Natalia Cabaj, Mike Arnup and Sammie Parkinson. Perceptive is still forecasting growth through 2016/17, and with 45 full time staff, continues to make its mark as one of New Zealands top insight led agencies, and the clear market leader in Customer Experience Management & NPS.
RESEARCH NOW 2016 has seen Research Now’s New Zealand office undergo a period of exciting change. In addition to our consumer panel exceeding 100,000 active individuals for the first time we have also seen some old heads depart and new faces arrive. In January our much loved colleague Wing Morgan went on maternity leave after the birth of little Felix. After 6 months Wing decided that being a mum was too much fun and after 7 years we said goodbye to Wing. Wing was a huge part of Research Now’s team here in NZ and she will be greatly missed. Whilst Wing was on maternity leave James Iberson-Hurst joined us bringing a bit of English sophistication to the Research Now team. James was a real asset to our business and made a significant impact to the day to day management of our clients. In July however, as planned James returned to the UK to continue pursuing a burgeoning football career. Which brings us to where we are now! George Glubb, fresh from becoming a father to Isabelle, continues as Research Now’s Country Manager here in Auckland. Alongside George remains Laura Mallon, who has assumed the role vacated by Wing. As Associate Client Development Manager, Laura will continue to take a proactive role in ensuring that her clients receive a seamless service across the data
collection process. In August of this year we were lucky enough to have Renee Blackledge join us as a Sales Support Executive. Renee arrived at Research Now after a stint at The Warehouse where she was a member the insights team as part of AUT’s Co-op education paper. Renee graduated from AUT with a Business Degree in Accounting and Marketing and is already proving to be a huge help in our increasingly busy office! Whilst we hate saying goodbye to friends- we are extremely excited with the team that we now have on-board and cant wait to keep building as a team and organisation.
CULTURAL LENS After 17 years in client service and research roles in China and New Zealand, Wing Morgan recently left the corporate world to establish Cultural Lens Ltd. Drawing on her bilingual business experience and cultural understanding, Wing has shifted her primary focus on to the under-served migrant market in New Zealand. Cultural Lens supports New Zealand organisations in identifying and seizing the opportunities which superdiversity presents. Consider bringing a Cultural Lens to your next consumer or B2B project!
AUCKLAND COUNCIL Auckland Council welcomed Jeremy Todd (from Glasshouse Consulting) and Warren Marshall (from Colmar Brunton) to their Research and Insights team recently.
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