KEY STAFF

J. MICHAEL DENNIS, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Managing Director

Dr. Dennis is responsible for managing Government and Academic Research for Knowledge Networks. Joining Knowledge Networks in February 2000, he has been responsible for managing the Survey Research Department, with oversight of panel recruitment, survey sampling, maximizing response rates, and survey methods research. More recently, Dr. Dennis has managed numerous surveys for academic and Foundation-based customers and for the Research Triangle Institute. A frequent presenter at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, his current areas of methodological inquiry are nonresponse bias, panel conditioning, and data collection mode effects. Prior to joining Knowledge Networks, Dr. Dennis was a Senior Scientist at Abt Associates, where he managed several large-scale Federal Surveys and was Associate Project Director for the National Immunization Survey (CDC). Dr. Dennis has also been active in the area of medical ethics and biomedical politics, having served on the Ethics Committee of the United Network for Organ Sharing and written a dissertation on The Politics of Kidney Transplantation.

JOE GARRETT
Vice President

Mr. Garrett joined Knowledge Networks' Government & Academic Research Strategic Business Unit as Vice President. Located in Washington, D.C., he works with federal agencies and Washington-based policy organizations and universities. He came to Knowledge Networks from Market Strategies International, where he founded and led the Government, Foundation, and Academic Research Division. Mr. Garrett's career spans 30 years; from 1997 to 2004, he was Vice President and Deputy Director of Surveys and Information Services at Mathematica Policy Research, a leading social policy research firm. For seven years prior to that, Mr. Garrett served ACNielsen as Vice President and Chief Statistical Officer. He began his career at the Census Bureau in 1978, where he rose to the level of Assistant Division Chief, Research and Methodology. Since 1988, Mr. Garrett has been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Statistics at George Washington University; he also has served as an adjunct faculty member at the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland. Bringing depth of experience in research, his expertise includes sample design, estimation, survey methods, and survey operations. Mr. Garrett has published numerous papers and articles on statistical methods and survey research techniques. In addition, he has chaired or served on the advisory committees of the American Statistical Association, American Economic Association, American Marketing Association, and the Population Association of America. Currently, Mr. Garrett belongs to the Board of Directors of the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics.

BILL McCREADY, Ph.D.
Vice President, Client Development

Dr. McCready is responsible for working with academic, government, and non-profit clients to help them design projects that use the Knowledge Networks Panel. In 2000, he worked with the Bureau of the Census and the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Public Policy on two large national projects for Knowledge Networks. He is currently involved in developing partnerships with academic and government research offices to utilize the national Knowledge Networks panel in a variety of applications. Dr. McCready has worked in the survey research field for more than 35 years, both as the first Program Director at NORC at the University of Chicago and more recently as Director of the Public Opinion Lab at Northern Illinois University. He directed the CDC-funded Illinois BRFSS as well as projects for the Ford Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, NIAAA, and McDonald's Corporation and is a past member the National Academy of Science's Committee for a National Urban Policy.

MICHAEL S. LAWRENCE
Vice President, Research Development

Mr. Lawrence is Vice President, Research Development, with Government & Academic Research. He is located in the Washington, D.C. area. Mr. Lawrence comes to Knowledge Networks from RTI (RTI International), where he worked as Associate Director of the Research Development Office since 2002. He was responsible for both business development and program management for Government and Commercial clients. Mr. Lawrence was primarily responsible for work in Energy (governmental and private), Homeland Security (governmental), Defense (governmental), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), compliance (commercial), and statistical analysis (commercial).

Mr. Lawrence's work is focused in government markets. In 30 years of broad experience, he has managed dozens of government and private sector contracts. He previously worked for a number of Washington, D.C. area research firms and the U.S. Department of Energy. He is a graduate of Michigan State University (M.A., Family and Child Sciences) and the State University of New York at Stony Brook (B.A., Sociology).

WENDY MANSFIELD, Ph.D.
Vice President, Research Development

Dr. Mansfield, located in Washington, DC, recently joined Knowledge Networks as Vice President, Research Development, with Government & Academic Research. She comes to Knowledge Networks following almost 10 years at Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., where she was Associate Director of the DC Survey Research department. She directed large- and small-scale studies using a variety of data modes, ensuring that projects were completed on schedule and within budget. She is experienced in all phases of survey projects, including designing studies, developing surveys, and obtaining clearance from the Office of Management and Budget and approval from institutional review boards. Dr. Mansfield has worked primarily on education projects and secondarily on international, community service, Census, HUD, Treasury, BIA, and CPB projects, and she has helped to develop business with a variety of agencies.

Dr. Mansfield will join the other Government & Academic Research team members in developing KN’s portfolio with federal agencies and institutions. She brings nearly 20 years of experience working on government contracts. She previously worked for Westat, Macro International, and Pricewaterhouse. She received degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D., Communications) and the University of Virginia (B.A., English).

JORDON PEUGH
Vice President

Ms. Peugh joins Knowledge Networks as a Vice President for Business Development in Government and Academic Research. Ms. Peugh was most recently at Harris Interactive, where she served as Vice President of Healthcare and Public Policy Research. For more than a decade, Ms. Peugh has conducted specialized research for numerous foundations, academic institutions and corporations in a variety of areas. These include projects on domestic and international health policy, needs and experiences of patients and physicians, adoption of health information technology, impact of social marketing campaigns, and consumer and constituent loyalty. A frequent grantee of the Commonwealth Fund, Ms. Peugh directed the annual International Health Policy (IHP) survey series from 2003 to 2009. She has also conducted research in the field of substance abuse for the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services and the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. Ms. Peugh has co-authored multiple peer-reviewed papers, appearing in Health Affairs, JAMA, Annals of Surgery and others. She holds a Master’s degree in Sociology from New York University and a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Purchase College, State University of New York. Ms. Peugh is a member of the American Association of Public Opinion Research where she serves on the Education Committee.

SERGEI RODKIN, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President

Dr. Rodkin is responsible for technical design in survey projects, managing survey projects, and assuring quality deliverables in Government and Academic Research. Dr. Rodkin also manages Knowledge Networks/QuickView, an omnibus survey solution for social science and public policy researchers. He has extensive experience in survey methodology, questionnaire design and project management. Prior to joining Knowledge Networks in 2005, Dr. Rodkin was a Survey Director at Abt Associates (2000-2005), where he worked on several large scale projects as part of the State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey (SLAITS). Dr. Rodkin began his survey research career at the Senator Alan Bible Center for Applied Research at the University of Nevada, Reno. Dr. Rodkin received his B.A. in psychology from Hendrix College and Ph.D. in social psychology from University of Nevada, Reno.

CHARLES A. DiSOGRA, Ph.D.
Chief Statistician

Dr. DiSogra is Knowledge Network's Chief Statistician and heads the statistics unit at the Menlo Park office. He brings over 20 years experience in survey research, sample design, data analysis, and administration. Charles comes to KN from Field Research Corporation in San Francisco where he was vice president and senior research director. He formerly directed a peer-review research grant program for the University of California. Prior to that position, he was a senior scientist and an associate director at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research where he was the founding director of the California Health Interview Survey, the largest on-going telephone health survey in the country. Before UCLA, Charles was the senior consultant for survey research and statistics at Freeman, Sullivan & Co. in San Francisco; director of the Behavioral Risk Factor Survey for the State of California; and an epidemiologist and researcher at the California Cancer Registry where he founded and directed their telephone survey research laboratory. His experience also includes malaria eradication work with the Peace Corps in Southeast Asia where he worked and traveled for five years followed by a six-month motorcycle journey through Europe. Charles has a Master's degree in public health and a doctorate in nutritional epidemiology with an emphasis in biostatistics and policy analysis from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of the American Statistical Association, Survey Methods Group; the Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association; and the American Association of Public Opinion Research.

LARRY OSBORN
Senior Project Director

Mr. Osborn is the project manager for a new NSF-funded web panel being created for Stanford University and the University of Michigan. The new panel is designed specifically to meet the requirements of government and academic research. His responsibilities include management of telephone recruitment of panel members, development and oversight of panel survey processes, data delivery, and report production. Prior to joining Knowledge Networks, Mr. Osborn was a Senior Survey Director at Abt Associates (1999-2007), managing complex, large-scale survey projects for clients including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Center for Health Statistics, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Cancer Institute, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. His areas of expertise include questionnaire design, sample design and management, interviewer recruitment and training, report writing, and timely delivery of client data. Mr. Osborn has a M.P.H. from the University of Alabama.

RICK LI
Project Director

Mr. Li is responsible for managing and executing projects in Government and Academic Research. His responsibilities at Knowledge Networks include designing questionnaire for web-based surveys, coordinating with Operations to execute surveys, data cleaning and data manipulation, and writing reports. He has successfully managed survey research projects for Stanford University, the Research Triangle Institute, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. He is proficient in statistical programming in SPSS and SAS. Prior to joining Knowledge Networks, he worked extensively with survey data as a research analyst for Meta Research and Godbe Research and Analysis. Mr. Li received his M.A. from the School of Journalism and Communication at Ohio State University, concentrating on survey research methodology, statistical analyses, and media research.

POOM NUKULKIJ
Project Director

Mr. Nukulkij is responsible for managing projects for Government and Academic Research. He is involved in all phases of the research process, including coordinating with the Operations Department on survey sampling, questionnaire design and programming, and quality control as well as data preparation and report writing. He has successfully managed research projects for the NSF-funded Timesharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS), Harvard University, and CBS News. Prior to joining Government and Academic Research, he served as Knowledge Networks' Profile Data specialist. Mr. Nukulkij studied peer aggression and victimization at the University of Connecticut, earning his M.A. in Developmental Psychology with an emphasis on questionnaire design and research methodology. He is trained in longitudinal and cross-sectional research techniques and has extensive experience managing studies of young children and early teens.

STEFAN SUBIAS
Project Director

Mr. Subias is a Project Director in the Government and Academic area of Knowledge Networks. He is involved in overseeing all stages of survey projects from survey design, programming, sampling, quality assurance and project management. Mr. Subias has worked on studies for a variety of organization including Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Gallup Organization, and the Research Triangle Institute as well as federally funded projects for NSF, CDC and USDA. Mr. Subias received his B.S in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.

NAOMI KELLER
Business Development Associate

Ms. Keller is based in the Chicago office and is responsible for the business development of the Service Bureau Team (SBT). In this role, she works with various research firms who are interested in using the KnowledgePanel® for their own studies. Her main responsibilities include writing proposals and pricing projects for clients. Naomi Keller joined Knowledge Networks in March 2008 as a Senior Research Analyst.

Prior to joining Knowledge Networks, Ms. Keller held positions at Ipsos ASI working on brand health and advertising tracking studies as a Research Manager. She was also the lab coordinator at the Center for Research on Adolescence, Women, and the Law, where she oversaw two projects examining the intersection of adolescent development and the Juvenile Justice System. Ms. Keller has her BA in psychology from Georgetown University.

YELENA KRUSE
Senior Research Analyst

Ms. Kruse joined Knowledge Networks in September 2007 as an Intern Research Analyst in Government and Academic Research, and became a full-time employee in January 2008. Her main responsibilities include preparation of questionnaires for field, quality control of survey instruments, monitoring data collection, handling data, and preparation of tables to report survey results.

Prior to joining Knowledge Networks, Ms. Kruse worked at the University of Nebraska, Gallup Research Center as a Research Assistant. She was involved in the projects of cross-national questionnaire design, survey translation, and survey behavior coding. Ms. Kruse holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska, Omaha and a M.S. in Survey Research and Methodology from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

MEGAN BROWN
Research Analyst

Ms. Brown began her career in survey research at the University of New Orleans Survey Research Center, an independent academic survey unit. At Field Research Corporation, Ms. Brown trained and monitored interviewers, tested survey instruments and helped oversee data collection for a variety of surveys fielded in California and nationwide. Recently, Ms. Brown has contracted as an Analyst with the Human Research Protection Program at the University of California, San Francisco and has worked on three key local and national campaigns.

As a student at UNO, Ms. Brown was a summer intern with the American Political Science Association and completed thesis research at the Federal Election Commission in Washington, D.C. She earned both a Bachelor’s and a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of New Orleans.

Ms. Brown's main responsibilities at Knowledge Networks include the preparation of questionnaires and data sets, data handling and quality control of survey instruments.

KAREN SEMANS
Research Analyst

Ms. Semans joined Knowledge Networks in August 2008 as a Research Analyst for Government and Academic Research. Based in the Chicago office, she is responsible for questionnaire development, quality control of survey instruments, monitoring data collection, and preparation of data sets.

Ms. Semans holds a B.S. in Regional and Comparative Studies from Georgetown University and a M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago.

JEFF SHAND-LUBBERS
Research Analyst

Mr. Shand-Lubbers joined Knowledge Networks in July 2008 as a Research Analyst in Government & Academic Research. His main responsibilities include preparation of questionnaires, preparation of data sets, quality control of survey instruments, and data handling.

Prior to joining Knowledge Networks, Mr. Shand-Lubbers worked as a Research Intern at APCO Worldwide. He has also held positions at the American Bar Association and George Washington University. Mr. Shand-Lubbers holds a B.A. in Sociology and Political Science from Hope College and a M.A. in Sociology from George Washington University..