Welcome MFour's Newest Additions!

Posted by MFour on Feb 5, 2020 2:59:39 PM

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(L-R Sharon, Justin, Jack, Carmen)

MFour is excited to announce Sharon Leynes as our latest Senior Research Consultant. She brings 15 years of market research experience in managing and designing custom research studies within various sectors, including automotive, telecommunications, retail, entertainment, hospitality, and medical devices. In addition to her start at a full-service market research company, her recent experience at Johnson & Johnson, The Walt Disney Company, and Kelley Blue Book, has enabled her to design studies which closely align with corporate/marketing strategies. Sharon holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from San Francisco State University. When she’s not in the office, Sharon enjoys spending time with her family and dog. You might find her on a local bike path, catching a play or even in the stands of a baseball game.

Graduating from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Justin Hadaegh joins the sales team as a Solutions Development Representative. In his role, Justin will work on building our sales teams pipeline through consistent outreach, both through calling and emailing. Justin looks forward to bringing his verbal communication skills, work ethic, past sales experience, and his passion for creating new relationships to his new role here. When he’s not in the office, soccer is one of his biggest passions and he plays any chance he gets.

Jack Felich joins the sales team as our newest Senior Solutions Representative. In his role, he will be responsible for generating new leads, building a qualified pipeline, and overall helping drive sales and facilitating the growth of our business. He looks forward to helping others achieve results and to grow our business, and becoming an industry expert in market research. Jack brings over 3 years of sales experience where he was recognized as a top sales performer at his previous employer. Jack holds a Bachelor's Degree in History and Business Administration from University of California, Riverside. In his free time, he is passionate about fitness, finance, sports, and helping others.

Carmen Pham joins the operations team as a Senior Specialist - Fielding. In her new role, she will be helping internal teams assess feasibility for sampling and also ensuring quality data collection. She looks forward to helping improve process documentation and training. She brings a solid understanding of the project process, research methodologies, and what it takes to ensure quality data. Carmen holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Cal State Fullerton. When she is not in the office, Carmen is a self-described “foodie” and she even has an Instagram devoted to trying new foods.

Topics: MFour careers, MFour hiring news, behavior driven research

Starting the New Year with New Team Members!

Posted by MFour on Jan 9, 2020 10:50:34 AM

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(L-R Juan, Chris, Cheryl, Vanchhit)

MFour is proud to add Juan Toscano to the operations team, where he will setup and manage surveys on MFour’s research platform. In his role, he will ensure the highest quality is being met for the data the MFour collects, and he will manage and track projects astutely to ensure clients request are being fulfilled. Juan brings several years of market research experience where he led teams conducting phone interviews. Juan has extensive knowledge of MS Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite and has the ability to learn new software easily and intuitively. Juan holds an Associate’s Degree in Liberal Arts from Cypress College. In his free time, he enjoys working on landscape and perfecting his travel photography skills. 

Chris Gimenez joins our sales team as our newest Solutions Executive. He brings over 7 years of sales experience and looks forward to landing accounts and using data-driven approaches to selling and finding new clients. In his previous roles, Chris has constantly exceeded sales goals by utilizing a consultative sales approach when meeting with new and existing customers. He holds a degree in Economics from California State University. In his free time, Chris likes to snowboard and be in the mountains. In the warmer months, he likes to wakeboard and spend time at the river. He also loves the NBA and NFL and is a fan of the Lakers and the Patriots.

MFour is proud to announce Cheryl Aday as our new Senior Product Manager. We are certainly lucky to have Cheryl as she brings a deep understanding of data analysis and experimental design to our team. In her previous roles, Cheryl has managed more than 40 projects in mobile, web, desktop and IoT projects for small-to-medium size businesses and startups using Scrum, Kanban, and waterfall. She also brings strong writing skills and has a Masters in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California. In her free time, Cheryl enjoys her passion for board games and was even previously co-founder of the LA Board Games group.

MFour is excited to announce Vanchhit Khare as our new Salesforce Administrator. Vanchhit holds a Bachelor degree in Electronics and Communications from Amity University Rajasthan and a Masters in Computer Science from California State University, Fullerton. He brings more than 3 years of experience in the field and always loves to explore new features of Salesforce and trying to establish a rich UI experience for the MFour users. When he’s not in the office, he enjoys taking photographs and trying new recipes. He is also currently learning about music and how music influences our experience.

Topics: MFour careers, MFour hiring news, behavior driven research, new job

MFour Hires a Fielding Specialist and a Senior Data Analyst

Posted by MFour on Oct 25, 2019 12:48:41 PM

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MFour is excited to announce two new team members! 

Fernando Martinez is joining the operations team, where he will field our client surveys and maintain the quality of our data through data scrubbing. He has valuable experience with data analysis and was part of the team that made Tel Aviv, Israel the number one market globally for Bird Rides Inc. Fernando is a graduate of the University of California, Riverside where he holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Economics. In his free time, Fernando enjoys watching sports, especially his favorite baseball team, The Dodgers, and listening to any of his favorite music genres.

Graduating from the University of Texas at Dallas, Yi-Wen Cheng joins the MFour team as a Senior Data Analyst. She brings 8 years of data analytics experience in different industries including consultant, healthcare, and logistics. As our Senior Data Analyst, she will perform data visualization where she will extract data from data lake using her different technical skills and present data and transform it into information used in a meaningful way. She looks forward to standardizing work procedures and create a data directory for entity-relationship modeling. Yi-Wen is someone who thinks outside the box and MFour is certainly excited to announce her as one of the newest members of the team!

Topics: new hires, MFour careers, MFour hiring news, behavior driven research

MFour Hires an Accounting Specialist, a Fielding Specialist and a Quality Assurance Manager

Posted by MFour on Oct 7, 2019 3:51:20 PM

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MFour is happy to announce three new additions to the team!

Holly Freeman joins the MFour Finance team as an Accounting Specialist who’s primary focus will be on accounts receivable, accounts payable, and any other accounting functions that Jimmy and Brian throw her way. Holly has been working in the accounting profession in various capacities since 2013. She got her start in public sector taxation working for the Canada Revenue Agency where she quickly moved up the ranks as the junior-most staff member to be promoted to a senior resourcing position. She has since moved on to private sector accounting after moving to Southern California from the East Coast of Canada. In her free time, Holly is an avid runner who has completed 6 marathons and 30 half marathons to date. She is also a creative writer with several short stories published in different anthology collections.

Graduating from the University of California, Irvine with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Social Behavior, Lindsay Fawcett joins the MFour team as a Fielding Specialist, where she will work on fielding our surveys to consumers and ensuring quality data for MFour clients through thorough data scrubbing. She brings her experience as a Research Assistant where she focused on emotion and social behaviors by using primary qualitative data such as open-ended survey questions and in-person interviews. Last summer Lindsey volunteered in Nepal at a women-owned and operated farm in rural mountain villages and received an award for excellence from the Global Service Scholar Program. On her downtime, she loves reading fantasy and science fiction and having game nights with her friends.   

MFour is excited to announce Roman Balakin as our new Quality Assurance Manager. Roman holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from MAMI State University, Moscow, Russia, and Scrum Master Certificate form cPrime. Roman brings 4 years of QA manager experience and looks forward to building a rockstar QA team along with developing a robust automation test coverage. In his free time, Roman enjoys traveling the world with friends and embracing new cultures. He is also a Co-owner of a motorcycle repair and tuning studio that has been in effect for over 3 years.

Topics: MFour careers, MFour hiring news, behavior driven research, fielding, accounting

MFour Hires a VP of Marketing and a Recruiting Coordinator

Posted by MFour on Aug 15, 2019 4:23:00 PM

Topics: mfour expansion, MFour careers, MFour hiring news, behavior driven research

MFour Hires a DIY Specialist and a Survey Programming and Data Specialist

Posted by MFour on Aug 9, 2019 9:42:21 AM

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MFour is proud to announce two new additions to the team!

A recent graduate from the University of California, Riverside, Derek Fuller joins the MFour operations team as a DIY Specialist. In his new role, Derek will handle the Live-Chat for the Operations Department and continue to identify and develop ways to expand the “self-help” tool in the application. Derek has valuable experience working in customer-facing roles where his interpersonal and problem-solving skills truly shine. Outside of the office, you can find Derek playing videos on his PC or honing his skills as a DJ.

MFour is also excited to announce that Ken Chen will become a valued member of Operations. Chen graduated from the University of California Los Angeles with a Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics and, using programming tools such as R and Python, Chen will be key in managing and overseeing the analysis of consumer data. He will also maintain internal quality control, manage data files, provide insight into new features, and set up surveys on MFour’s proprietary research platform.

Topics: new hires, mobile research, MFour careers, MFour hiring news

MFour Announces New Team Members in Product Marketing and Sales

Posted by MFour on Feb 8, 2019 1:37:11 PM

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(L-R Natasha Tran, Thomas Palompelli, Allison Constable)

MFour has hired three team members in Product Marketing and Sales who will help bring innovative online and offline mobile data products to market and help businesses use them to support smart decision-making.

Thomas Palompelli is Director of Product Marketing, a new position that plays  a key role in defining, developing and launching MFour’s data products. He brings extensive experience in advertising and ad tech, most recently as Director of Product Marketing at FreeWheel, a Comcast company. At MFour, Tom’s portfolio encompasses a wide range of product offerings for brands and retailers who need quality consumer data in all its dimensions. He holds a Master’s degree from Fordham University in Business Administration, Management and Marketing, and a dual-major Bachelor’s degree in Marketing Management and Information Systems and Operations from Fairfield University. Having grown up, attended college and spent his career until now in the Greater New York City area, Tom is beginning a new chapter as a Southern Californian. He enjoys riding a motorcycle and will now face a big decision: to lane-split or not to lane-split. It’s illegal back in New York.

Allison Constable joins the Sales team as a Senior Solutions Executive, advising brands, media companies and agencies on how to harness MFour’s groundbreaking products to drive better insights into advertising effectiveness. She brings considerable experience to addressing clients’ challenges in testing and measuring the impact of their advertising. Allison’s previous positions include Business Development Director for Media & Content at Kantar, Ad Effectiveness Analyst for Buzzfeed and Client Supervisor for Millward Brown Digital.  She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Communication at Elon University. Outside of work, she likes reading and listening to podcasts about human behavior and emotion, CrossFit, yoga, petting every dog she sees, spending time outside, cooking and hosting dinner parties for her friends.

Natasha Tran arrives as a Senior Solutions Development Representative, educating prospective clients about MFour products, including always-on tracking of consumers’ offline and online buying journeys. She previously was a Sales Executive for real estate data company Zillow Group, specializing in driving new business for its advertising platform. Natasha also gained a first-hand perspective on the needs of businesses and their customers in an earlier job as an Assistant Manager for Enterprise Rent-a-Car. She earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Riverside, majoring in Media and Cultural Studies, with a minor in Business Administration. Her outside interests include snowboarding and enjoying time with her dog.

Topics: mobile research, market research, MFour careers, consumer data

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