Russell is a Partner in the law firm Pullman & Comley’s Business and Finance group.  His business and technology practice focuses on assisting clients accomplish “what’s next” – whether “next” is the use of artificial intelligence, a new customer relationship or a merger. In particular, Russ has significant experience advising clients in the market research, marketing, software and healthcare industries. Russ' strength is partnering with clients, frequently in the role of outside general counsel, to help them achieve their goals.

Russ has represented a wide range of firms in the market research and data analytics industry, and previously served as outside governmental affairs counsel to CASRO.  He is a regular presenter to the Insights Association’s General Counsel and Privacy Officer Forums. 

His general business practice includes representing clients in the structure and consummation of mergers and acquisitions, joint venture, and financing transactions. Additionally, he is experienced in both for-profit and nonprofit corporate formation and governance matters.  Clients rely on Russ to review, draft and negotiate customer and vendor agreements, including for software and other common technology contracts for mobile applications, software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings, websites and APIs. Russ also counsels clients regarding the registration, protection and licensing of trademarks and copyrights.

As Russ counsels clients that collect and use large amounts of personal data, he understands the expansive web of state, federal and international privacy and data protection regulations, including questions regarding privacy policies and procedures; security breaches; the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and other state privacy laws; HIPAA; FERPA; cross-border data transfers and processing (including GDPR compliance); and email and telemarketing regulation.

Russ received his B.A. with high honors from Wesleyan University and his J.D. from the College of William and Mary’s Marshall Wythe School of Law.

Jackeline is a spirited leader, entrepreneur, teacher, speaker, changemaker, and trusted business advisor. With over 35 years of experience in business development, she firmly believes in the power of supporting others to foster collective growth.

Throughout her career, Jackeline has had the privilege of helping hundreds of aspiring entrepreneurs launch and scale their businesses. As a proud co-founder of Disruptive Enterprises, her mission is to empower women worldwide to step into entrepreneurship by providing access to resources and networks she has cultivated over the years. Additionally, she co-founded Women Entrepreneurs Rock, an annual event series dedicated to inspiring and nurturing women business owners.

For the past 16 years, Jackeline has been deeply involved with the NJSBDC, currently serving as the Regional Director for America’s SBDC New Jersey. Leading the center in the vibrant Shore region, she has garnered national and regional recognition for its impact on economic development.

Beyond her professional endeavors, Jackeline is passionate about sharing her entrepreneurial expertise with the next generation. She serves as an adjunct professor in business departments across higher education institutions.

Advocating for causes close to her heart, Jackeline actively contributes to various boards of trustees, including RWJ Monmouth Medical Center, Eastern Monmouth Area Chamber of Commerce, EMACC Educational Foundation, Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore, Steele CDC, and Monmouth Arts. She also serves on the Brookdale Community College Business Advisory Board and has been involved with Impact 100 Jersey Coast and chaired the EMACC Educational Foundation.

Jackeline has received many accolades for her leadership and support of the business community, including being named as a Women in Leadership by the Board of County Commissioners of Monmouth County in 2024, the Wilbur Ray Entrepreneur Ambassador Award for Outstanding Community Service from Brookdale Community College, one of the Most Influential in Business of the Jersey Shore by Asbury Park Press in 2023, the President’s Beacon of Excellence Award from the Monmouth Regional Chamber of Commerce in 2022, America’s SBDC State Star Award in 2021, the Hometown Heroes Award in 2019 for women entrepreneurship, the Business Leadership Award from the Community Affairs and Resource Center in 2018, and the first recipient of the Monmouth County Women in Business Award in 2015.

Jackeline holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hunter College, a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Arizona Global Campus, and a Doctorate in Management from the University of Maryland Global Campus.

Katrina has been at the helm of the insights agency KNow Research, delivering fresh insights through custom research design for over 20 years. During that time, she has built a full-service qualitative consultancy specializing in creating client-customized design by combining methodologies from traditional in-person research with digital approaches. She is proud to have made KNow Research a certified Women Owned Small Business and a California Certified Green Business and as well as being a champion of women in and out of the insights community. Katrina is also Co-Founder of Scoot Insights, a trademarked decision-making methodology grounded in qualitative research.

Ben is an Associate Director and Insights Capabilities Lead at The Clorox Company.

Ben helps manage the vision and execution of the insights function through process and technology thought leadership. He ensures that strong research fundamentals lead to human centered decisions and provides direction and training for faster, high value research which enables bold thought leadership. Ben has his BA in Economics from Connecticut College.

Cecilia is a data & analytics practitioner-academic, international speaker, and author focused on the intersection of technology, data, and trust.

She has worked at several Fortune 500 companies and taught at Columbia Business School, MIT Sloan, and U. Penn Wharton.

Cecilia has helped businesses tell stories about people using analytics. She studies how technology mediates the lived experience for individuals and brands. Cecilia is also the author of Authentic Interactions, a weekly newsletter where she posts her interdisciplinary musings related to trust.

Cecilia earned her Bachelor’s in Marketing and International Business from NYU Stern School of Business where she also minored in Psychology and East Asian Studies. She also earned her Master’s in Statistics from Columbia University and is currently finishing her doctoral studies focused on Interpersonal Relationships within Immersive Digital Environments and its impacts on trust. 

Clint Taylor is a market research tech pioneer and the founder and CEO of Datality, a SaaS marketplace democratizing access to research data and AI source data. With two patents for blockchain-based data transactions and implicit research tech, Clint has led advancements in the tech and market research industries. His leadership as CTO propelled his previous company into the GRIT Top 50 Most Innovative Research Firms in 2 years and earned it the prestigious EXPLOR Award. Beyond his entrepreneurial ventures, Clint serves on advisory boards such as the University of New Hampshire’s Data Science & Analytics program, has been a core judge for MIT’s Inclusive Innovation Challenge, and served as Mentor for MIT's Solve initiative. Clint's deep expertise in building tech stacks around AI models and transforming data accessibility continues to shape the future of AI-powered solutions and their source data.  

Dan Wasserman is the Chief Operating Officer at KJT. With a passion for generative AI and a diverse background in insights, Dan helps clients design better products and services to improve patient health globally. He is also an advocate for innovative approaches to generative AI, regularly hosting trainings and workshops to help teams harness its potential.

Christopher brings frontline experience from 25 years at American Express and Microsoft. He is renowned for crafting innovative research strategies that leverage consumer insights to achieve competitive advantage in high-growth environments. His adeptness at connecting insight to strategy in a coherent and actionable manner has earned him global recognition as a leader in his field. Frank has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Forbes, Inc., Fortune, and TedX. A two-time author of the acclaimed books ‘Drinking from the Fire Hose’ and ‘Decisions over Decimals,’ his most recent book has been highlighted in Malcolm Gladwell and Dan Pink’s Next Big Idea Club.

His ability to bridge insights with strategy has not only garnered him global recognition but also numerous industry awards for his contributions to global initiatives in satisfaction, new product development, public relations, brand management, marketing effectiveness, and communications research. An advocate for inclusive marketing, Chris authored a playbook ensuring diversity, equity, and inclusion emerged in all creative endeavors. With deep experience working with iconic brands worldwide, Christopher has consistently demonstrated his prowess in team building, business growth, and problem-solving, leveraging insights and advanced analytics.

Frank, who started his career at Accenture, brings a practical perspective that marries the science of data with the art of storytelling to enable smarter decisions. He excels in fostering a culture of excellence for stakeholder deliverables and has spearheaded initiatives leading to pioneering advancements in data analysis, marketing optimization, and strategic innovation. His collaboration with global teams fosters a culture of agile innovation, transforming research into a pivotal growth engine.

Recognized as a prominent thought leader in building critical thinking skills, Christopher is highly regarded as a lecturer on decision science. He is actively shaping the next generation of leaders as the Co-Director of Columbia Business School’s Leading in a Data-Driven World: Developing Quantitative Intuition™ program and serves as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University.

Christopher holds a Master of Management Science and a Bachelor of Science in Technology Management from Stevens Institute of Technology. He currently chairs the Board of Advisors and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology, reinforcing his commitment to education and leadership development.

Theresa Kennedy, from Atlantic City, NJ, is a writer at the Atlantic City Focus, (https://www.atlanticcityfocus.com )a futurist, and an AI ethics advisor with over two decades of experience in various industries, including real estate, credit repair, and business credit building.  She has served as an AI ethics advisor with Createlabs.io, red teaming for Mastercard’s DEI-focused entrepreneur chatbot addressing racial, gender, and cultural biases. Additionally, Theresa was part of the Red Team for OpenAI’s GPT-4o participating in debiasing efforts and the ethical deployment of AI technologies. 

Theresa is at the forefront of addressing the challenges faced by low-resource languages in machine learning. As a contributor to AfaAI, (http://afaai.org) an open-source project, she is part of efforts to increase representation of marginalized communities in AI systems, contributing to the preservation and revitalization of African and other low-resource languages through advanced AI techniques.

As the founder of The Black History Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity (https://theblackhistoryfoundation.org) dedicated to preserving the African narrative through technology, she champions technological innovation to drive social change. Her work has been featured on Coindesk for her innovative use of blockchain in preserving black history. As a speaker she shares her insights on the intersection of technology and social impact. She is a passionate advocate for ethical AI development, focusing on creating inclusive, fair, and representative AI systems. Her work actively addresses algorithmic bias and promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the tech industry, striving to ensure that emerging technologies benefit all communities equitably.

Michele is dedicated leader with many years of diverse experience from process improvement, program management, leadership, mentorship, customer data steward to innovative tech development & multi-million-dollar budget/resource & operations management working at major retailers Saks Fifth Avenue and Macy’s Inc to current financial technology giant Mastercard. A proud alumnus of St. John’s Undergraduate and NYU Graduate.

She loves turning the “complicated” to simple, consumable, and actionable through technology solutions. Attentive collaboration allows her to unlock and build custom transformational solutions with partners. Her passion for technology continues to drive objectives for harnessing the power of ai, automation and other cutting-edge technologies to improve Marketing development, media execution, and performance.

Currently working on Mastercard Small Business AI, an inclusive Generative AI tool that delivers customized assistance for small business owners, anytime, anywhere, as they navigate opening and growing their businesses.

Arundati is the Founder and CEO of Generation1.ca, an award-winning social enterprise media platform and community advancing immigrant empowerment and inclusion across North America with innovative initiatives, storytelling, education, and industry-supported career fairs and case competitions. Recognized among the top 75 global data and insights legends by ESOMAR and Insight250 in 2023, she serves on industry boards like IAPP and AAPOR and has authored, edited, and presented extensively at global conferences. Arundati also teaches data, analytics, and business courses to 300+ learners at Humber Polytechnic and serves as Vice Chair of the Marketing Research and Analysis Program Advisory Board in Ottawa.

Don is a Senior Partner at Kantar. 

Tina is U.S. and North America Lead, Consumer and Business Insights and Analytics at Haleon (formerly GSK consumer healthcare). In this role she leads the team tasked with uncovering insights and leveraging analytics to help optimize Haleon’s competitive position for the US. Her team is responsible for transforming research into growth strategies supporting the base business and new product pipeline, ensuring accurate forecasting and business performance reporting, as well as guiding resource optimization to maximize top and bottom line.

Prior to Haleon, Tina was the Global Consumer Experience lead for Pfizer Consumer Healthcare where she was the Global lead responsible for Insights and Analytics as well as stewardship of the Global design team. Prior to joining Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, Tina had an extensive career at Johnson & Johnson, where over 20 years she held a variety of leadership roles in marketing, insights and analytics and worked in both the Consumer Division at McNeil Consumer Healthcare and in Pharmaceuticals at Janssen North America.

Tina earned her BA from Drexel University.

Howard is SVP Advocacy for the Insights Association.

Paul is a Senior Research Analyst at CloudResearch and currently acting as Director of Prompt Engineering for the Engage product. Before joining CloudResearch he earned his PhD in social psychology from UC Berkeley, and was Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science at Stevens Institute of Technology.

Don is the Director of the Siena Research Institute.

Moe leads the Hispanic Consumer Research agenda at PepsiCo North America Beverages. This is his third international re-location for PepsiCo. He began as Assistant Brand Manager at Gatorade Saudi Arabia, he moved across multiple functions covering 2/3 of PepsiCo's business outside the USA. Moe’s future vision is to lead brand consumer insights using AI as one of the key enablers for PepsiCo Globally. Moe believes that the future of consumer engagement lies in empathy, authenticity, and innovation. And he is committed to being at the forefront of that journey, ensuring that Pepsi’s brands not only meet but exceed the evolving needs of their consumers.

Kevin, CEO and Co-founder of Intuify, has nearly two decades of experience in research and insights. He earned his PhD, MIT, Political Science & Quantitative Methods, and then served as VP Analytics & Innovation for Affinnova prior to its acquisition by Nielsen. He has led innovation teams and an innovation lab, helping launch half a dozen new products. He launched Intuify to radically upgrade survey-based methods and insights.

Kevin, CEO and Co-founder of Intuify, has nearly two decades of experience in research and insights. He earned his PhD, MIT, Political Science & Quantitative Methods, and then served as VP Analytics & Innovation for Affinnova prior to its acquisition by Nielsen. He has led innovation teams and an innovation lab, helping launch half a dozen new products. He launched Intuify to radically upgrade survey-based methods and insights.

Joe is the Chief Product Officer and Head of Data Science, CivicScience.

A serial CPO/CTO based in New York City, Joe leads product, data science, and AI for CivicScience, a real-time consumer insights and activation platform. He was most recently global head of martech product for Wayfair, overseeing customer engagement platforms that drove $10+ billion in annual revenue.

Previously, Joe served as chief product officer for mobile adtech platform Verve, CEO/co-founder for AI-driven martech startup Mezzobit (acquired by OpenX), and COO/digital GM for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. Joe has been an adjunct professor at Yale and New York University teaching digital strategy and product, and is an entrepreneur-in-residence at NYC’s Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, the East Coast's largest start-up accelerator.