Rick Phillips

Rick is the founder and owner of KTVA Productions, a video production company that specializes in documenting focus groups, in-depth interviews, and product usability testing using the most cutting-edge technology, including live web viewing. Rick has been providing DHM Research with qualitative research support for over 10 years. His services assure that DHM Research clients have an accurate record of what focus group participants have to say and video documentation to use for presentations.

Rick holds a B.S in Business from Portland State University and is a winner of nine national awards including the 2008 Media Communications Association-International (MCA-I) Golden Reel Bronze Award, the 2008 Videographer Award of Distinction, and the 2001 MCA-I Portland Chapter’s Pilot’s Award by the MCA-I. He is also a member of the MCA-I and has served on its executive committee for the Portland Chapter for 10 years.

Michael Midghall

Michael is the founder and principal of Fusion MR, a market research firm that specializes in new sustainable product design using advanced methods including condensed ethnographies, conjoint analysis, and discrete choice. Michael has been consulting for DHM Research for over five years, assisting the firm in online survey design, implementation, and analysis including MaxDiff online surveys.

Prior to starting Fusion MR, Michael researched, developed, and marketed products for Intel Corporation. He has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and an MBA with Marketing and New Venture Analysis concentration from the University of Tennessee.

Matthew Schroeder

Matthew is the principal of C.T. Technologies and specializes in statistical table programming for political and market research projects. Matthew’s specialty is generating cross-tabulation reports from quantitative survey data, and whether he is combining data files from multiple sources or simultaneous multi-variant weighting, he is comfortable with the many elements of processing survey data. In addition to playing a central role in developing the scoring system used in the annual Oregon Business Magazine’s 100 Best Survey, he has aided DHM Research with hundreds of quantitative projects for more than a decade.

Matthew received his undergraduate degree in Social Science from Michigan State University. In addition he completed one year of graduate study in Economics.

Ezra Beeman

Ezra is the managing Director of Energeia, an energy consulting group based in Australia. Together with his experience with Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) in Paris and the US, he has advised senior managers of major oil, gas and power companies across Europe, the Americas and the Asia Pacific region on a wide range of energy issues. Ezra works with the firm on communications and market research for utilities and energy companies.

Ezra’s industry career has spanned a number of strategic and internal advisory roles within EnergyAustralia, where he was responsible for managing a number of customer behavior-changing initiatives for the utility. EnergyAustralia serves 1.8 million electricity customers in the Sydney and Hunter regions of NSW, Australia.

Ezra holds a B.A. in Economics and Philosophy from Claremont McKenna College, and a Masters in Applied Finance from Macquarie University, Australia. He has published more than 15 articles and papers in his field of expertise.