Corporate Leadership

The talented individuals who make up the Rockbridge team were chosen not only for their solid research skills, but also for their ability and willingness to offer superior client service.

The key staff members listed below work together, consulting on a daily basis to ensure their clients' benefit from the range of knowledge and skills the staff possesses.

Charles is the founder of Rockbridge Associates, Inc. He is a senior professional with over 20 years experience in service quality measurement, market research and marketing strategy formulation. He has designed and directed hundreds of studies for services businesses on topics like customer satisfaction, positioning and branding, segmentation, pricing, and product development. Charles directed a service quality measurement function for Citicorp, and he has also worked for premier organizations such as Opinion Research Corporation and Westat, Inc.
 
Charles has presented at numerous conferences on Technology Readiness, service quality, and Internet data collection. He co-authored the book Techno-ready Marketing with Dr. A. Parasuraman. He has taught marketing management and market research at universities, and is a Senior Fellow in the University of Maryland's Center for Excellence in Service. He has a M.B.A. from the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland.

Gina is a senior researcher with 14 years of experience in marketing research and consulting. In her position at Rockbridge, she leads a team of researchers focused in the financial services and e-services sectors. Gina’s research centers on customer satisfaction, new product development, market segmentation, and positioning/communications issues. Her clients value her understanding of their business issues to ensure the research answers their questions and guides marketing strategy and product development.
 
She has extensive experience in both qualitative and quantitative research. Gina designs survey instruments, manages data collection, and is skilled in multivariate analysis. She writes comprehensive, actionable reports and often presents the research findings and recommendations to marketing management. She is also a master moderator and in-depth interviewer.
 
Most recently, Gina co-authored the article, “E-volution to Revolution,” which appeared in Marketing Management magazine in April 2007. She has presented at numerous high-profile venues, such as the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, on various research topics. She has an M.B.A. from George Mason University and a B.S. in Marketing and Decision Sciences.

Joe is widely recognized as an expert in both qualitative and quantitative research design, implementation, analysis, and consulting. Joe has been conducting various types of research for over 13 years.  For more than 7 years Joe worked at the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), most recently as the director of research, where he oversaw the association’s research program which focused on consumer technologies, product sales data, trade show, and association research. His research experiences prior to CEA include research in the areas of political polling, healthcare, telecommunications, law, and manufacturing.
 
Joe has been a guest lecturer on research methods at The College of William and Mary, Northern Virginia Community College, The Greater Washington Society of Association Executives, and the Marketing Research Association. Joe graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from The College of William and Mary.

Professor Parasuraman of the University of Miami is working with Rockbridge on its Technology Readiness research, and supports Rockbridge on projects in the areas of service quality and technology attitudes. Professor Parasuraman is a leading scholar in services marketing, and has published over 300 articles and books in the academic and popular business press. He is widely known for his work with Valerie Zeithaml and Len Berry on SERVQUAL, a methodology for measuring quality for a service. He received the distinguished career award from the AMA Services Marketing Division in 1998. He has co-authored a book, Techno-Ready Marketing, and numerous articles on technology marketing with Rockbridge staff.

If you wish to contact a member of the Rockbridge team, you can e-mail us at: rockinfo@rockresearch.com.

Or write, call or fax us at:

Rockbridge Associates
10130 G Colvin Run Road
Great Falls, VA  22066-1839
Phone: (703) 757-5213
Fax: (703) 757-5208