Our Team

John Elmer
President

John McKeever
Senior Vice President

Gabriel Gelb
Senior Consultant

Chris Levy
Director of Strategy Services

Richard Cisneros
Director of Research Services

Wes Traweek
Group Director: Technology Services

Daniel Raihill
Director of Client Services

Andrew Sharp
Director of Operations, MediaSight

Lonna Samuels
Project Director

Todd Malinick, PhD
Marketing Analyst

Alleen Mitchener
Marketing Analyst

Ryan Caskey
Marketing Analyst

Nichole Trochta
Marketing Analyst

Steve Hatherley
Data Manager

Eric Munoz
Data Manager

Mark Harris
Data Analyst

Kathy Floyd
Accounting Manager


John Elmer joined Gelb in 1984. John has received certifications in both new product development and management consulting. He has served as subject matter expert for three large-scale benchmarking studies on new product development and market research for the American Productivity & Quality Center since 1996. John has conducted numerous conjoint analysis and discrete choice modeling studies since 1985, and authored his first article on applications of conjoint analysis in 1990 for the Journal of Pricing Management. He is a frequent lecturer and seminar leader.

EDUCATION:
MBA, Marketing -- University of Houston, December 1984
BA, Psychology -- University of Texas at Austin, December 1979

PUBLICATIONS:
Elmer, John B. and Hasanali, Farida, "Gathering and Using Market Insight: Discovering New Product Opportunities Through Customer Intimacy", American Productivity & Quality Center, 2000

Elmer, John B. and Arro, Emily A., "Managing Innovation for New Product Development: The Fuzzy Front End, American Productivity & Quality Center, 1998

Elmer, John B., "Converting Information Streams to High Potential Product Concepts," Conference proceedings, Industrial Research Institute, Fall 1998

Elmer, John B., "Best Practices in Market Research for New Product Development," American Productivity & Quality Center, 1996

Elmer, John B., "Market Research Inputs to the Stage Gate Product Development Process," Conference proceedings, Customer-Driven New Product Development, University of Houston, January 1996

Elmer, John B., "Internal Communications: Achieving Employee Alignment with Corporate Mission, Vision and Values," American Productivity & Quality Center, 1995


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