The Counsel Team

In many projects, a “Counsel Team” of respected experts in each of our core areas of marketing analytics and best business practices. Based in Toronto, Strategic Global Counsel has strong connections with management specialists and research management, both in Canada and the USA, but also globally.

The Counsel includes specialists in the following areas:

 Healthcare

Dr Karim Keshavjee

Karim a practicing physician, is also Canada’s electronic medical record and e-guideline expert. He has expertise in designing EMR projects that scale up quickly and easily and is the architect of Canada’s chronic disease surveillance network.

 Banking

Barry Davenport

Mr. Davenport was head of the Capital Markets Division at the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), the Canadian federal regulator of financial institutions, insurance companies and certain pension funds. He previously had extensive experience in capital markets and international banking as Senior Vice President, Global Treasury for Bank of Montreal, and earlier in his career managed the foreign exchange activities of Wood Gundy Ltd., a leading Canadian investment dealer.

 Market Research

Brian Owen

Thirty two years in the market research industry, combined for 23 years with teaching at the I.H Asper School of Business at the University of Manitoba. Specialties: Public affairs research, customer satisfaction research, on site interviewing and estimation of market potential.

 Market Research

Gayle Atkinson

Gayle partners with SGC on various projects as a consultant and practitioner in market research and business development for pharmaceuticals, medical devices and small businesses. Prior to 2009 Gayle completed a successful career in market research within the Pharmaceutical industry where she held responsibility for the market research and forecasting for numerous product launches at a senior level.

 Market research

Research Strategy Group International

Robert Kyba is still Managing Director of the international arm of Research Strategy Group. The staff of RSG can help manage the larger international projects.

 Advanced Analytics

Tony Rudmik

Tony has been the go-to data analyst for Robert over the past 25 years. He is highly skilled at multivariate analysis and their synergistic approach to data investigation continues to produce extraordinary insight.

 PR & Social Media

Whitney Slightham

Specialties: Integrated marketing communication, stakeholder relationship management, communicating change, speechwriting, media relations, creative design, writing and digital/social media strategy.