Beacon Technology Partners Primary Market Research Firm

While at Cahners Publishing, Jim developed "The Mind of the Engineer," the industry's first and only psychographic analysis of the design engineering community in the electronics industry. And in collaboration with fellow Beacon Technology Partners founder Steve Leibson, he has introduced several new analytical techniques to studying customer/supplier interactions and brand choice modeling in the EOEM.

In addition, Jim is a lecturer at local colleges in the Boston area, and has spoken at electronics industry events such as the Embedded Systems Conference and EDS, as well as many industry events sponsored by EETimes. Prior to his experience at Beacon, he was a principal at McLeod-Warrick Research. From 1992 to 1995, he served as the Director of Research at Reed Business Information (formerly Cahners Publishing). During his career, he has also served as the Research Director at the Christian Science Monitor and Urban and Associates and as a consultant to a wide variety of media companies including Knight-Ridder and Scripps-Howard.

Jim is co-author of the GMG Insights Research series, covering a variety of subjects relevant to the IT supplier community. Topics include SOA/Web services security solutions report "Global report on SOA/Web Services Security Initiatives" and the "Current State of IT Information Security" report. Information on Beacon's research work has also been included in the EETimes, Embedded Systems Design, Electronic Buyer's News, Electronic Supply and Manufacturing, On Wall Street, Federal Computer Week, and other industry publications. Through the leadership of Jim McLeod-Warrick, Beacon's primary research in the USA and international markets has helped many of the world's largest technology and technology publishing firms to make strategic decisions.

Before joining Beacon, Julie was employed by Perseus Development Corporation. During her four year tenure, she managed survey marketing research projects for high-profile consumer product companies. Prior to Perseus, she worked for Solucient, LLC, where she managed the internal Data Management Center (DMC) which employed 10 representatives responsible for survey data scanning, translation, tracking and coding.

Julie started her career working for Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in their cellular billing division. During her 6 years of employment there, she learned key skills in cellular billing management, customer service and product development.

Bridget's recent clients have included Boston Scientific, Texas Instruments, Johnson & Johnson, Intel, Tropicana, Aflac, GE Capital, and Conde Nast. She has developed a number of proprietary statistical metrics for clients and has experience in business-to-business, consumer, and government-funded scientific research.

For the past ten years, Marlene has been an Accountant and Financial Consultant for a variety of small businesses. Her prior experience includes being Executive Director and Director of Strategic Planning and Finance for Ballet Theatre of Boston and MJT Dance Company. She also worked in Finance and Business Development for Digital Equipment and Ginn Publishing.

Marlene's volunteer commitments include producing for various community theaters. She spearheaded a highly successful capital campaign while president of one of them.