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JUDGES

​Who is judging the awards?

How can I be sure about the integrity of the awards?

 

To avoid a popularity contest or the issuing of awards that are not based on merit, the Marketing Research and Insight Excellence Awards will be judged by Quirk’s editorial staff, end-client and/or supplier-side researchers.

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  • All judges must sign a non-disclosure agreement prior to judging awards.

  • Judges will not be allowed to judge categories in which they are nominated.

  • All attempts will be made to reduce unconscious bias among judges by concealing personally-identifying applicant data. 

  • To prevent lobbying, names of judges are not released prior to finalists and winners being chosen.

  • Judges use an online portal to independently judge the nominations. They are not provided the names of the other judges and they do not see the scores of the other judges. The system tabulates the scores.​​

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Interested in judging? Apply today by sending your resume/CV or a link to your LinkedIn profile to awards@quirksawards.com with the word ‘Judge’ in the subject line.​

2025 AWARD JUDGES

Thank you to all of our 2025 judges for taking the time out of their schedules to review the nominee applications!

Allan Altholz, North Carolina Education Lottery 

Michelle Andre, Women in Research 

Randy Berkowitz, Retired 

Matthew Blacknell, Mars Snacking 

Kirsty Button, Legal & General plc 

Robert Cartwright, JPMorgan Chase 

Jason Cohen, Simulacra Data 

Steven Cooley, Ph.D.

Lisa R. Courtade, Organon 

Nancy Cox, Research Story Consulting 

Jo Cruz, AT&T Services, Inc. 

Lauren DeRaleau, Glass 

Luz Marina Fernández Gwinner, IQ Andina 

Misty Flantroy, Owens Corning, Doors 

James Forr, Olson Zaltman 

Paul Griffiths, Client Advocates 

Martha Hayward, Bird Dog Insights 

Gary Heller, Ph.D., Audacy 

Lisa Horwich, Pallas Research Associates 

Hannah Kaplan, Southpaw Insights 

Amanda Kimble-Evans, Altitude Marketing 

Imre Kiss, Kia Europe 

Karen Kraft, Johnsonville 

Jason Lau, DirectTV 

Cherie Leonard, Colgate-Palmolive Company 

Suzanne Lugthart, Fathom Research 

Kautzsch Manuela, Syngenta 

Kristina Martinez, Abbott Nutrition 

Louise McLaren, Lovebrands 

Bessam Mustafa, Toronto Blue Jays 

Christian Niederauer, Ph.D., Colgate-Palmolive Company 

Katrina Noelle, KNow Research & Scoot Insights 

Ellen Pieper, Research Results 

Aliza Pollack, Aliza Pollack Consulting 

Mike Porter, Ph.D., Opus College of Business, University of St. Thomas 

Finn Raben, Amplifi Consulting 

Su Sandhu, SkyBlue Healthcare Associates 

Allison Schoer, LinkedIn 

Varun Sharma, Gilead Sciences 

Layla Shea, Upwords 

Amy Spencer, The Research Heads 

S. Ashley Spring, Unemployed 

Alina Stepan, Ipsos Romania 

Sarah Travis, Resolution Insights LLC 

Xavier Vaissière, Colgate-Palmolive 

Vijay Wadhawan, Environics Research 

Bari Weinhausen, Currently Unemployed 

Liz White, Studio by buzzback 

Jeffrey Wu, Mars Snacking  

James Wycherley, Insight Management Academy 

Dana Yamate LeGrand, Independence Blue Cross 

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