Our Team - all our researchers have at least 15 years experience!
Phil Weintraub, Managing Director
| Phil Weintraub has 30 years of experience as both a supplier and a buyer of market intelligence. Prior to establishing Innotech in 1986, Phil managed a number of departments at Bell Canada, and later at a major Canadian marketing research company. He has also taught marketing management and marketing research courses, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, at the University of Toronto and Concordia University. He has consulted and worked with companies such as Bell Canada, TD Meloche/TD Insurance, Nortel, AT&T Canada, Black and Decker, Algoma, Camco, GE Appliances, LG Electronics as well as Carrier Enterprises. Phil is an adept focus group moderator, with thousands of focus groups and one-on-one interviews to his credit. In his spare time, Phil gives back to the community as a trained speaker for the Canadian Diabetes Association. |
David Lilien, Research Manager
| David Lilien's outstanding analytical skills, commitment to meeting clients' needs, and innovative use of research methodologies have established him as an influential figure in the marketing intelligence research industry. David has over 30 years of experience, his inquisitive and friendly personality makes him a great addition to any team. In his spare time, David volunteers for the Canadian Cancer Society. |
Rick Frank, Programmer and Online Designer
| Twenty years ago Innotech established a business alliance with Rick Frank and his firm Dufferin Research, a firm specializing in online survey design. Rick received his Master's degree from the University of Toronto in 1996 and is regarded as one of Canada's most knowledgeable programmer in the online research world. Innotech works with Rick on all of its online surveys, programming, sample setups, generation of production forms, data collection , survey hosting and cross-tabulation reports. All regular production web servers are located in a secure data center in Ottawa. The facility is multi-homed and the servers are directly on the data center's 1Gb Ethernet network. These facilities are state of the art and have full generator backups and UPS protection. Access to the data center can only be gained after a retinal scan and use of an electronic access card. Innotech is therefore assured of the most secure data storage for its projects and clients. |
Paul Fairlie, Research Partner
| Paul Fairlie (Ph.D. Psychology) has over 15 years of experience in organizational, market, and opinion research. He is a trained quantitative, behavioural scientist with a solid foundation in organizational psychology, psychometrics and data analysis.
Paul’s primary areas of expertise are individual and organizational measurement, including 360 degrees feedback surveys, structured interviews, and assessment centres. He has extensive experience in employee surveys and focuses on workplace factors that drive employee and organizational outcomes. This is reflected in the Meaningful Work Inventory®, a proprietary, comprehensive employee survey of the most critical workplace factors known to organizational science. |
Christine Schmakies, Operations Manager, Telepoll
| Christine Schmakies. Christine has worked with Innotech for the past 25 years. Christine has designed, managed, executed and overseen data gathering on thousands of surveys. Surveys have included Business to Business, Business to Consumer, governmental and not for profit, medical and the general public. Clients across North America rely on her skills, dedication, attention to detail and professional expertise to achieve the very best results for them and their market research projects. She is a graduate of Humber College and is an active member of MRIA. |