Leadership Team
The Explorer leadership team has years of multi-faceted marketing experience driving the intelligent solutions we provide.
Senior Leaders
Marc Inkol
Partner
Marc Inkol is the founding partner at Explorer Research. Prior to founding Explorer Research, Marc has twenty years of experience working for tier one companies such as Maple Leaf and Kraft. Marc ran the Strategy and Development and Cheese division at Kraft. This experience gave him the perspective of being a true strategic partner for his clients.
Anne Stephenson
Partner
Anne Stephenson is a Partner at Explorer. Prior to Explorer, she led the Post cereal division at Kraft. Anne’s general management experience helps her understand how to translate insights into action to help grow your business. Anne has 25 years of experience in packaged goods, retail, foodservice and pharmaceutical.
Chris Whitaker
Partner
Chris Whitaker is a Partner at Explorer Research. Chris has over 30 years of marketing, sales and research experience including packaged goods, pharmaceutical, financial services and Business to Business. Prior to joining Explorer, Chris was the Senior Vice President of Client Service at OSL Marketing. Chris has also held senior level positions at Nabisco, Catelli and Kraft.
Mike Moussallem
Partner
Mike Moussallem is a Partner at Explorer Research. Prior to Explorer, he led the Retail & Shopper Insights practice for TNS, as well as the shopper insights team for Kraft. He has 15 years of client and supplier side experience with Nielsen, PepsiCo, Kraft, TNS, and Explorer.
Advisory Board
Lou Anne Gent
Lou Anne Gent has 33 years experience in Consumer Insight and Analytics with 30 of those years on the Client side of the business with large, multi national consumer packaged goods companies in progressively more Senior Management positions.
Most recently, she was Vice President of Consumer Insights & Analytics at Nestlé Canada (12.5 years), where she led multiple teams over her tenure including Insight, Analytics, Product Sensory, Consumer Call Centre and Digital. In addition to building and leading her local team, she was a member of Nestlé’s Global Insight Management Committee who was responsible for establishing Nestlé’s Insight best practices, developing and managing global research studies and developing longer term supplier relationships and contracts.
Prior to Nestlé, Lou Anne was the Director of Consumer Insights at Kraft Canada (13.5 years) where she led the local Insight Team and was a member of the Kraft North American Insight Team. In this role, she was involved in helping grow leading brands and supporting the development of a cross category Kraft Corporate strategy through Insight. Prior to Kraft, Lou Anne was Market Research Manager at Procter & Gamble/Richardson-Vicks (3.5 years) and spent three years on the Supplier side (Longwoods Research) where she began her Insight career.
Lou Anne believes that growth and profitability of the Business must be at the core of every Consumer Insight decision and action. This requires a full understanding of the role and goals of the brand, leading edge research techniques to develop a deep understanding of the consumer and a highly skilled multi-disciplined team, including internal functions and external partners, to uncover relevant insights and translate those insights into business building actions.