uSamp (www.usamp.com), a leader in providing targeted audiences for global consumer insights and innovative SaaS technologies for audience engagement and business intelligence, today announced that it has named Joshua Pink to the newly created post of Senior Vice President, Corporate Sales Strategy & Global Development.

“I’m excited to join a fast growing company, in three short years, uSamp has delivered on the promise of empowering organizations with technologies that expand the market for market research as well as enable clients to make better, more insightful decisions”

Pink will work with uSamp’s senior management to define and execute a corporate sales strategy for the organization. Founded in 2008, uSamp is a fast-growing technology company with strong relationships and innovative offerings for the market research community. Through these efforts, the company is defining the enterprise hosted technology (EHT) space, capturing target audience knowledge and delivering it to a broad array of decision makers as credible, fresh business intelligence.

Formerly Vice President of Business Development for Think Passenger, Inc., a privately held online community company, Pink brings to uSamp extensive experience in enabling the world’s leading brands to connect, create, and communicate with key stakeholders online, through mobile devices and on social networks.

“A dynamic, achievement-oriented executive like Josh – with more than a decade of post-MBA experience in competitive strategy, brand definition, e-commerce, social media, private online communities and business intelligence – will be an outstanding addition to our team,” said Matt Dusig, co-founder and CEO of uSamp. “Josh blends experience, acumen and passion. All are central to uSamp’s culture and mission.”

“I’m excited to join a fast growing company, in three short years, uSamp has delivered on the promise of empowering organizations with technologies that expand the market for market research as well as enable clients to make better, more insightful decisions,” Pink said.

Pink holds an MBA from the Graziadio School of Business & Management at Pepperdine University and a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

About uSamp

uSamp (uSamp.com), the Answer Network, is a premier provider of technology and survey respondents used to obtain consumer and business insights. uSamp’s solutions and SaaS platform transforms the way companies gain intelligence to make better, faster decisions about their products and services by tapping into uSamp’s 6.5 million global panel of survey respondents. Through uSamp’s proprietary technologies for self-serve survey authoring, self-survey sampling, and private-label panel management, companies have on-demand access to millions of profiled survey respondents. uSamp is based in Los Angeles, with five offices throughout the United States, Europe and India. The company has more than 200 team members worldwide, led by serial entrepreneurs Matt Dusig and Gregg Lavin. uSamp ranked #11 in the 2011 Forbes America’s Most Promising Company List, was named one of the fastest growing private companies in Los Angeles by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal and one of the best places to work in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

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