Illuminas Global – Austin

As Senior Vice President of Illuminas Austin, Carrie is responsible for driving client service and support, and ensuring the quality of research solutions provided to each client. Since 1999, she has been developing custom research projects at Illuminas that have helped position Illuminas as one of the industry’s most esteemed providers of thoughtful business solutions. As part of her commitment to exceptional client service, she is the primary mentor for all of Illuminas’ researchers, ensuring their professional growth and cultivating their dedication to developing quality business solutions for all clients.

Carrie joined Illuminas after working at IntelliQuest as an account manager and business development director. She has over seventeen years of experience that includes qualitative and quantitative research consultation supporting various sales and marketing activities, including brand tracking, segmentation analysis, product marketing and channel management. Carrie has created and managed global research programs for some of the world’s most successful brands, including Apple, Cisco Systems, Hewlett Packard, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems and Warner Brothers.

Carrie has been a market research instructor for the University of Texas at Austin’s Continuing and Extended Education Center. She has also been a guest lecturer for Brand Management at the McComb’s School of Business at UT Austin. Carrie earned a BBA in marketing from the University of Texas at Austin.