Meet the highly experienced team of professionals at Cognisense

Our Team

Catherine is a founder member and the Managing Director of Cognisense. She has a 25-year career history with Millward Brown Ulster (formerly Ulster Marketing Surveys), with the last 10 year spent as Managing Director. Since completing her Masters in Marketing, she has been involved in brand management and for over 25 years has worked in marketing consultancy and market research. She was the NI Chair of the Chartered Institute of Marketing in 1992 . She has experience and expertise across a wide range of disciplines from public health studies to travel and tourism to finance. As a full member of the MRS and the AQR Catherine is a very highly experienced researcher. She has been involved in designing and implementing studies for the vast majority of our clients from both the public and private sectors.

Catherine Toner

Alan is a founder member and Director of Cognisense. He previously worked at Millward Brown Ulster joining as a Director in 2002. Alan is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin where he majored in psychoanalysis. He worked as a Researcher in London for almost 20 years before moving to Millward Brown Ulster. His specialism lies in qualitative research and he manages our team of qualitative researchers, overseeing all projects. He has utilised his vast experience and expertise to develop techniques which enable the most sensitive of information to be extracted in the focus group forum. Alan has been responsible for a wide range of media, social, political and commercial projects. His experience spans both blue chip organizations within the public and private sector on both sides of the Irish Sea and abroad. Alan is a full member of the Market Research Society.

Alan Lobo

Dawn is one of the founder members and a Director of Cognisense, having worked as an Account Director at Millward Brown Ulster for 10 years. A Psychology graduate of Queen’s University, Dawn McCartney joined the Millward Brown Ulster team in 2008, having previously worked as Advertising Psychologist in a Belfast based advertising agency. Dawn enhances our team of research executives, using her extensive expertise in advertising and communications research to the benefit of our clients. She thrives on delivering compelling insights which will shape the future of our clients business. Her experience spans creative pre-testing, qualitative strategic development research and quantitative benchmarking and tracking surveys. Her client base incorporates a variety of organisations from both the public and private sector. As well as being a member of the Market Research Society, Dawn is also a member of the British Psychological Society.

Dawn McCartney

As one of the founder members and a Director of Cognisense, Glenn began his Market Research Career at Millward Brown Ulster (formerly Ulster Marketing Surveys) back in 1994. Glenn has a Business and Finance background, with special disciplines in Public Policy and Management. He is responsible for the design and management of many of our major clients throughout the UK and Ireland. He is a highly experienced quantitative and qualitative researcher and has utilised his research expertise across sectors such as social, energy, telecommunications, government, leisure, FMCG, retailing and town centre planning and evaluation. Glenn is a member of the Market Research Society.

Glenn Hall

David is Operations Manager at Cognisense, having worked as Field Manager with Millward Brown Ulster since 2011. He had 10 years of interviewing experience with the company prior to being appointed as Field Manager. David has extensive expertise in managing the field aspects of both quantitative and qualitative research and is responsible for the day-to-day running of all quantitative and qualitative projects in the field. He manages our full complement of face-to-face and telephone interviewers. He is supported by 10 part-time supervisors. David is also responsible for the management and day to day running of our telephone centre. In his capacity as Millward Brown Ulster Field Manager, David has managed the fieldwork of over 400 business-to-business and consumer research projects.

David McGaughey

Harry joined Millward Brown Ulster as Research Executive in 2008, having graduated from Queen’s University with a degree in Philosophy. He is now a Senior Account Manager at Cognisense. Harry’s extensive experience spans managing policy evaluation studies, employee and customer satisfaction research. Since joining, he has utilised his expertise in quantitative and qualitative research to the benefit of a wide variety of company clients from sectors including education, health, transport, travel &amp; tourism, local government and social welfare.

Harry Rosbotham

Jenny graduated from Queen’s University with an Honours degree in Business Information Technology. Jenny has a wealth of experience in research and analysis and is an Associate Director with Cognisense.Jenny is responsible for the management and co-ordination of a number of large scale quantitative research accounts mainly in the banking, travel and energy sectors. Jenny is one of the main contacts for our online surveys.

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