Ujwal Arkalgud
The desperate need for measurable foresight
Let’s face it, the modern foresight practice is a bit of a mess. But more on that later. Almost every major corporation is investing in...
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Our leadership & advisory board
We wake up in the morning to drive consumer-led thinking and research transformation in the organizations that we partner with. We live, eat, and breathe cultural anthropology and the study of meaning.
Ujwal Arkalgud
Co-Founder & CEO
Ujwal is a cultural anthropologist and a pioneer in the field of digital ethnography and the study of implicit and symbolic meaning on the internet. He is also a best-selling author and an eternal student of phenomenology.
Jason Partridge
Co-Founder & President
Jason is a former creative director and management consultant with extensive experience in innovation, product and brand development. He is also a best selling author, and an avid gamer.
Pete Kuhtey
Chief Technology Officer
Pete is a computer scientist, an economist, and a software architect. He is also an eternal student of philosophy and phenomenology.
Elinor Bray-Collins
Advisor
Elinor is a social scientist with over 15 years of field experience working across private sector, NGOs and Academia. She has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Toronto and has been a key part of MotivBase's origin story.
Rocco Papalia
Advisor
Rocco is a senior R&D executive with an incredible success record across major companies (e.g. PepsiCo/P&G). He most recently served as the Chief Research Officer and SVP of R&D and Innovation for $4.5B privately held Del Monte Foods, Inc.
Beth Lindstrom
Advisor
Beth is an entrepreneur with a proven track record in both the private and public sector (including serving in Romney's administration). Most recently, she served as the President of Commonwealth Future.
Charlie Arnot
Advisor
Charlie is a sought after advisor to Fortune 500 food companies. He is the CEO of Look East, a full-service PR firm specializing in building trust in food and agriculture.
Our research and customer success team
Our 40+ member team of cultural anthropologists is made up of PhDs with diverse backgrounds across the public and private sector.
Our researchers are also multi-lingual and have extensive field research experience across more than 13 countries in North and South America, Asia, Europe and Australia.
Contextual Intelligence
Our ability to understand context and decode the broader set of meanings that people assign to topics and trends in culture is at the heart of our Intellectual Property.
AI to decode motivational DNA
Our AI engine can decode any constellation of meaning surrounding a topic or trend in seconds using a deep anthropological learning model that was built over 5+ years of ethnographic research.
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