uSamp Names Justin Wheeler Vice President & General Manager for SurveyBuilder™
Will Oversee New Online Business Platform Empowering Businesses To Access On-Demand Audiences and Create Actionable Insights
ENCINO, Calif. (December 14, 2011) — uSamp (www.usamp.com), a leader in providing targeted audiences for global consumer insights and innovative SaaS technologies for audience engagement and business intelligence, today announced that it has appointed Justin Wheeler as Vice President and General Manager to head all global operations for SurveyBuilder™ (www.SurveyBuilder.com)
Wheeler brings an extensive track record in creating, launching and managing online business services platforms to SurveyBuilder. The new SurveyBuilder platform connects organizations with consumers by offering self-directed surveys to generate consumer and business insights. SurveyBuilder transforms the way organizations gain insights from target audiences and expands the market for consumer research by enabling access to on-demand audiences to populate online surveys.
"Throughout his career, Justin has proven adept at capturing market share and boosting profitability," said Matt Dusig, uSamp CEO and co-founder. "His business acumen in the DIY technology space and his passion for turning social dialogue into quantifiable, actionable information is tailor-made for SurveyBuilder's target markets."
"I'm delighted to join a team that believes, as I do, that with the right tools, we can use the online medium to tune in to the consumer's voice as never before," Wheeler said. "It's gratifying to be part of a fast-track company like uSamp — one that is defining the ways opinions can be captured and translated into fresh, truly useful business intelligence."
Wheeler attended New York University and earned a degree in English from Brigham Young University. In the late 1990s, he spearheaded the paid-search marketing platform GoTo.com, followed by leadership roles at Overture, Yahoo! and SpotRunner. At SpotRunner, he was instrumental in building an online self-serve platform to help transform the way advertising is created, planned, bought and sold.
About Usamp
uSamp (uSamp.com), the Answer Network, is a premier provider of technology and survey respondents used to obtain consumer and business insights. uSamp's solutions and SaaS platform transforms the way companies gain intelligence to make better, faster decisions about their products and services by tapping into uSamp's 6.5 million global panel of survey respondents. Through uSamp's proprietary technologies for self-serve survey authoring, self-survey sampling, and private-label panel management, companies have on-demand access to millions of profiled survey respondents. uSamp is based in Los Angeles, with five offices throughout the United States, Europe and India. The company has over 200 team members worldwide led by serial entrepreneurs Matt Dusig and Gregg Lavin. uSamp ranked #11 in the 2011 Forbes America's Most Promising Company List, was named one of the fastest growing private companies in Los Angeles by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal and one of the best places to work in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal.
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