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James Turner, better known as JT, is an Insights and Analytics business leader with over 20 years of experience in both agency and client-side.JT is the Founder & CEO of Delineate, a research consultancy specializing in complex business problems and fast-turnaround research. He is also Co-Founder of opinion.life an opinion research firm.He has previously held senior management positions at Black Swan Data, Edelman Intelligence, ICM, FreshMinds, Populus, and BT. You can follow JT on Twitter @JamesTurner247In this podcast episode 04 of - A Date With Data, JT talks about his passion for business and entrepreneurship. He is a big believer in offering opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds, education, and skills. JT loves going the extra mile for clients, pushing each other's limits to greater benefits. Check out the episode to hear his fascinating views on business leaders and advice for young industry professionals.    

Jonathan has over 25 years’ agency experience in the insight and brand strategy industry as a consultant, company director, entrepreneur and angel investor.He co-founded two successful agencies. The first, Clear, grew to a team of over 100 and was sold to M&C Saatchi in 2007. The second, Mash, has grown to a team of 25 and an annual turnover of over £5m.He founded his current start-up, Discover.ai, to explore how AI and machine learning can accelerate the world of insight and brand consulting through data driven agile tools. Over the years he has worked with some of the world’s largest and fastest growing businesses and brands (including Unilever, Heinz, Samsung, Google, Bacardi, PepsiCo and Transferwise) as well as a wide range of innovative start-ups and agencies.He has also personally invested in several start-up companies spanning the luxury, insight tech, media tech and food and drink industries. Two of these companies achieved value creating exits and many other are enjoying significant market success.In this podcast episode of - A Date With Data, Jonathan talks about his passion for business and entrepreneurship, failures that taught him a lot about himself. His shares his views on what the industry should be doing more to promote young talent and why practitioners should embrace technology to generate creative & actionable insights in today's fast paced world of business.

Kirsty has over 30 years’ experience in the insight industry, has served on the Board of the MRS and has a strong track record of business leadership and commercial success. She is the CEO of Big Sofa Technologies PLC.Prior to her appointment as Big Sofa CEO, Kirsty completed a Masters in Health and International Development at the London School of Economics, winning the prize for best overall performance and best dissertation. This study break followed 20 years as co-founder and co-CEO of Flamingo, an industry-leading qualitative research and cultural futures agency with a global presence across the Americas, Asia and Europe. The company was acquired by Omnicom in 2007.Kirsty shares her career journey and anecdotes, discoveries around gender inequality in the corporate world and leadership lessons. She did a degree in languages and began her career as a simultaneous interpreter, subsequently moving to market research and eventually co-founding an agency that employed over 350 people with global offices. She talks about her charity Purposeful a feminist movement-building hub for adolescent girls and why she took up her current role as a CEO of a tech business.Kirsty Fuller: Linkedin Profile - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/kirsty-fuller-3324716Kirsty Fuller: Twitter Profile - https://twitter.com/fuller_kirstyBigSofa Technologies Website Link - https://www.bigsofatech.com/Big Sofa Technologies is an insight-led technology company, specialising in behavioural analysis. With its machine learning roadmap and proprietary video platform technology, Big Sofa is driving innovation in next generation product testing, in-home behavioural understanding and customer experience.Rahul Jerome: Linkedin Profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahuljerome/Rahul Jerome: Twitter Profile - https://twitter.com/rahuljeromeinsight-intelligence: Website Link - https://www.insight-intelligence.com/insight-intelligence: Twitter Profile - https://twitter.com/insight_intell

Martin has been the MD of Buzzback UK, ever since its inception back in 2007. In his 20+ years in marketing research, he’s worked for two of the biggest global firms, Ipsos and TNS. Martin is also recipient of a 2009 MRS Fellowship and is a regular speaker and chairperson at prominent research events including MRS & ESOMAR.Martin talks about how he ended up in marketing insights, some of his funny and memorable experience during his career, his influential figure, learnings from his leadership role and finally his charity cause.Martin Oxley: Linkedin Profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-oxley-3b73813/Martin Oxley: Twitter Profile - https://twitter.com/martinoxleyBuzzBack Website Link - https://buzzback.com/Buzzback works with corporations and emerging brands breaking through challenges around concept development, brand positioning and communication strategy. Their interactive, image-driven approach integrates qual and quant techniques, simultaneously giving you the what and why  while filling the gaps typical of traditional approaches. Your result?  New ways to accelerate your innovation journey with rich visual & verbal consumer expression that illustrates what’s driving their behavior.Rahul Jerome: Linkedin Profile -https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahuljerome/Rahul Jerome: Twitter Profile - https://twitter.com/rahuljeromeinsight-intelligence: Website Link - https://www.insight-intelligence.com/insight-intelligence: Twitter Profile - https://twitter.com/insight_intell

Rahul Jerome: Linkedin Profile -https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahuljerome/Rahul Jerome: Twitter Profile - https://twitter.com/rahuljeromeinsight-intelligence: Website Link - https://www.insight-intelligence.com/insight-intelligence: Twitter Profile - https://twitter.com/insight_intell