Dana Stanley

I've been a market research industry practitioner, speaker and business developer for nearly twenty years. I am Vice President of Marketing for Survey Analytics, a company that provides an enterprise platform for conducting research. 

I am Editor-in-Chief of Research Access, Survey Analytics' blog providing resources for to market research community. I also blog about marketing/research topics at DanaStanley.com.

Previously I was President of The Operandi Group, a marketing and sales consultancy for the marketing research industry, where I did significant work for Market Research Global Alliance and iCharts.  

I began my career as a campaign speechwriter and U.S. Senate aide to Sen. Dianne Feinstein in San Francisco and Washington, DC.  Soon thereafter, I learned qualitative and quantitative research from nationally-known pollsters Mark Mellman and Celinda Lake at Mellman-Lazarus-Lake and Lake Research.

Later in my career, I was one of the key sales executives at online survey research pioneer Greenfield Online (later acquired by Toluna), up until and beyond its 2004 initial public offering. From 2006 to 2008, I led East Coast Sales and the New York office of global online data collection powerhouse Research Now.  

I am a proud alumnus of Bowdoin College, where I earned a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology.  I live in beautiful Cape Elizabeth, Maine with my family.