Profiles
David Day
President and Global CEO
Based in London, David is Lightspeed Research’s President and Global CEO. He joined the company in 2006 as CEO, Europe and oversaw the expansion of the European business. He became Global CEO in 2009.
David has nearly 20 years of experience in market research and official statistics and has worked in both the private and public sectors. His past employers include the UK Ministry of Defence, ACNielsen, and NetRatings.
An experienced international executive, he has held a range of senior roles in operations, sales and marketing, consulting, and general management. David is considered an expert by clients and peers in the field of Internet and media research, is a regular conference speaker, and is often quoted in the media.
David holds non-executive positions with the UK Department of Work and Pensions and the Open University.
Educated at University College London, Imperial College London, and the University of Greenwich, David holds a First Class Bachelor degree, a Ph.D. degree in Physics, a Master of Business Administration degree, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics.
September 13, 2011
Lightspeed Research and GMI: Looking to the Future
By David Day, President and Global CEOOn my recent flight back to New Jersey, I was thinking about the past few days I spent at GMI’s headquarters in the beautiful city of Bellevue, Washington. Our discussions with GMI’s management team covered a lot of ground, but each topic pointed unmistakably toward the future. Read More...
Category: Future of Online Research
Posted on September 13, 2011
April 21, 2011
Quality Research is Not (and Never Was) a Commodity
By David Day, President and Global CEOLooking over the Spring 2011 GreenBook Research Industry Trends Report, which came out yesterday, I noted that, despite the myriad industry initiatives focused on the issue of online panel data quality over the past dozen years, this was still the top issue of concern cited by the survey respondents. This Read More...
Category: Data Quality, Panel Quality
Posted on April 21, 2011
March 15, 2011
Welcome to the Lightspeed Research Blog
By David Day, President and Global CEOlis•ten [lis-uh n] v. to hear with intention. We listen for a living. Our company’s been listening to consumer opinions since our first online survey was launched in 1996. Since then the world has changed a lot, and so has our company. Now, we’re listening to over 3 million Read More...
Category: Future of Online Research
Posted on March 15, 2011
