For Immediate Release: 09/02/2023. London, UK.
Insights empowerment company FlexMR has appointed Russell as a Non-Executive Advisor. In this role, he will support the firm’s ambitious growth strategy and advise the senior leadership team.
Following the firm’s most successful year to date, FlexMR has appointed former Market Research Society (MRS) and AURA Chairman Danny Russell to its senior leadership team. In this role, Russell will serve as a key connection between the company’s commercial objectives and the needs of UK insight teams.
On a mission to empower informed and customer-centric decisions in the modern competitive environment, FlexMR believes firmly in Russell’s aim to improve customer experience and commercial success through efficient use of insight, data and analytics. Together, FlexMR and Russell will explore how to better enable business success for the firm’s existing clients and the wider research industry.
Commenting on the appointment, FlexMR CEO Paul Hudson said, “Insight is given meaning by its role in commercial decision-making. That’s something we’ve believed at FlexMR for a long time. So, it’s particularly exciting to be working with such an experienced brand marketing, strategy and research leader.
Danny has a proven track record of driving board-level decisions using research. He is a welcome addition to our growing team, and we look forward to improving the way in which brands are activating insight in a technology-centric era together.”
An experienced industry veteran, Russell is the former Marketing Strategy Director at Sky, who has held senior positions at Boots, Kraft Foods, British Airways, PaddyPower and O2 Telefonica. Since founding a consultancy in 2015, he has worked with a range of consumer businesses, including 21st Century Fox, The Economist, Ladbrokes, Metro Bank, Vodafone, Zwift and LeCol.
Regarding the position with FlexMR, Russell added, “Paul and I worked closely, many years ago, when I first started at Sky. His expertise and drive shone through when we met and it has been a pleasure to watch FlexMR prosper under his stewardship over the years. It’s exciting to be working together again, this time to take FlexMR to the next level of growth and engagement. Paul and his team are experts in their field and I cannot wait to start helping them deliver even more value for their clients, agencies and our sector.”
Russell also currently holds a range of Non-Executive and Advisory positions across the insight research sector. He has, in the past, advised Hall & Partners, Further and Watch Me Think. He has been recognised as a Fellow of the MRS and is a two-time recipient of the Insight 250 award.
About FlexMR
FlexMR is the Insights Empowerment Company. The hybrid consumer insights agency and cloud platform provider develops thriving insight communities that streamline online research and enable customer-centric decision making. Since launching the InsightHub platform, FlexMR have connected UK marketing, research and product teams to 300,000+ customers across the globe. Today, the platform supports robust data collection, analysis and activation workflows to empower informed decisions at the speed of business.
