Vice President

  • Angela Roberts

    meet Angela Angela Roberts joined C+R in 1987.  As Vice President, Administration, she manages C+R’s office and the support team dedicated to providing analytic support to ensure timely and high quality final deliverables.  This includes overseeing the functions of personnel responsible for product testing, visual reporting, multimedia, data checking/pulling, and proofreading. Angela co-authored C+R’s Product Handling…

  • Laura Westraad

    meet Laura Laura Westraad is a qualitative bilingual moderator with over 10 years of advertising, marketing, and research experience. ​ Laura’s natural ability to connect with people from all walks of life, along with her strong analytical sense, has positioned her as a go-to moderator for a wide range of clients from healthcare and wellness…

  • Christy Schlosser

    meet Christy Christy Schlosser joined C+R Research as a Quantitative Research Vice President in 2022. Christy has 15 years of experience in both quantitative and qualitative market research, with time spent on both the client and supplier side. She brings an expertise in multiple methodologies, chiefly brand tracking, Conjoint research, and concept testing, with deep…

  • Kathleen Blum

    meet Kathleen Kathleen Blum joined C+R Research in 2021. She has over 30 years of marketing, strategy, consumer insights, and shopper insights experience on both the client and supplier sides. Kathleen leads our ShopperEyes® practice, which leverages a suite of customizable, quantitative and qualitative approaches to create innovative solutions for manufacturers and retailers facing the…

  • Matt Werner

    meet Matt Matt is an accomplished Vice President with extensive expertise in custom quantitative research. He began his career managing customer satisfaction, loyalty, and brand equity tracking studies. Since joining C+R in December of 2013, Matt has broadened his experience to encompass a wide array of ad hoc research methods, including segmentation, awareness and usage,…

  • Amanda Krivanec

    meet Amanda Amanda Krivanec, Vice President, joined C+R in 2012. Amanda has worked on a variety of quantitative methods including attitude and usage explorations, market segmentations, advertising testing, tracking studies, concept and product testing, and home usage tests. She also has experience with a variety of methodologies including online, phone, mobile, intercepts and qual-quant hybrid…

  • Nadine Castellano

    meet Nadine Nadine Castellano, Vice President, has served as a research partner for renowned national and global brands within the food and beverage, travel, retail, manufacturing, and healthcare spaces for nearly two decades. In her research career, she has focused on designing and executing high quality research at the intersection of data analytics, strategic insight,…

  • Sergio Patiño

    meet Sergio Sergio Patiño, Senior Vice President of Operations Innovation, joined C+R Research in 2011. Sergio is responsible for survey-programming functions as well as various application-development initiatives. He and his team are also responsible for handling sensitive client data by ensuring that data is stored, archived, and disposed of in a safe and secure manner…

  • Margot Benish

    meet Margot Margot Benish, Vice President, People + Culture, joined C+R Research in 2014. Margot is responsible for both the long-term strategic and day-to-day functions of all things HR-related such as payroll, benefits, HR technology, compensation design, employee recruitment, retention, and satisfaction. Her focus is on keeping C+R’s employment practices up to date and ensuring…

  • Nancy Baum

    meet Nancy Nancy is a qualitative moderator with extensive experience in ethnographic research methods, including shop-alongs, in-home interviews, participant-observation, focus groups and usability testing. Nancy’s background in anthropology shapes her approach to uncovering and understanding consumers’ values, motivations and beliefs. She takes on an operationalized view of culture and aims to elicit deep narratives from consumers while employing a holistic perspective…