

Our team

Guy White
Founder & Managing Director
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Guy White
Founder & Managing Director
Guy founded Catalyx in 2012. Since then, he’s developed it into a multi award-winning consultancy – one instrumental in delivering positive change for clients such as P&G, the Red Cross and Ferring Pharmaceuticals. A marketer at the top of his game, Guy is a crowdsourcing authority and an expert on crowd-led innovation.

Tracey White
Research Director
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Tracey White
Research Director
Tracey has a broad range of experience within insights having previously held senior roles agency side, as well as doing it all herself with her own agency for more than a decade. She brings a blend of robust insight knowledge and blends this with a passion for innovative research techniques to constantly drive all our work forward.

Fiona McBride
Strategy and Innovation Director
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Fiona McBride
Strategy and Innovation Director

Kate Manton
Operations Director
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Kate Manton
Operations Director
Kate leads the Operations Team in delivering against day-to-day client project commitments, and the continuing review of longer term operational capabilities to support our clients with their business questions.
A keen developer of talent and teams, and of continuous evolution to prepare for the future, Kate believes clarity, collaboration and communication are key to successes.

Andrew Reed
Head of Accounts
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Andrew Reed
Head of Accounts
Our American by way of Argentina and now based in Geneva, Andrew has more than 20 years of experience from Nielsen. Spanning various roles, analysis types, and regions. Andrew has built teams, led client
relationships, and developed new solutions. He's a huge fan of American football, particularly music, movies, ultimate frisbee (us neither) and travel.

Nicole Munsey
Managing Director, USA
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Nicole Munsey
Managing Director, USA
Based in Chicago, Nicole brings 15 years of agency-side consumer insights experience working as a trusted advisor to Fortune 500 companies across CPG and Durables sectors. Nicole is committed to delivering thought leadership and strategic consulting guidance across brand development and innovation research. Nicole brings a passion for connecting the dots across research projects and ensuring that consumer insights drive brand growth and lead to successful innovation launches.

Christiana Coker
Head of People
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Christiana Coker
Head of People
Christiana has more than 10 years of experience in HR. Her professional experience has predominately been in marketing and communications where she has helped to support the growth of start-ups to scalable businesses. A commercially-astute HR professional, she believes in driving a truly human approach to people development and business growth.

Claire Smyth
Head of Product Development
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Claire Smyth
Head of Product Development
Claire comes from a strategic marketing background with particular experience in brand strategy. She’s worked on large scale growth projects for clients such as Diageo and Unilever, combining insight with key strategic brand expertise to drive growth and impact for clients. She is commercially strategic, innovative and future-focused, always putting the client need and client’s audience at the heart of innovation. Claire focuses on applying her experience and expertise to the product development of the Catalyx Consumer Activation System, so Catalyx is constantly pushing the boundaries of insight and strategy.

Deb Arnold
Senior Account Director
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Deb Arnold
Senior Account Director
Deb has over twenty years of experience in strategic consulting and consumer insights. She has a passion for helping companies build their brands by bringing in the voice of consumers to drive better business decisions. Deb is based in Cincinnati to serve our FMCG clients across the US.

Connor Thorpe
Senior Account Director
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Connor Thorpe
Senior Account Director
Connor has over a decade of experience on both the supplier and client sides helping brands better understand their customers. With a diverse background in FMCG, Healthcare, and Non-Profits, he brings a unique perspective to the Catalyx team. Outside of work, Connor has a passion for travel, sports, and his dog Maisy, whom he will gladly share pictures of to anyone who asks. He is based in Chicago.

Silvia Veltcheva
Senior Account Director
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Silvia Veltcheva
Senior Account Director
Silvia has over 10 years of experience in marketing research including FMCG, durables, and OTC. She loves digging deep to understand client challenges and helping them hone their strategy by bring the consumer into their decision making. In her personal time Silvia enjoys spending time with family & friends and exploring anything new (neighborhoods, restaurants, slopes, recipes, cities).

Guillaume Biojout
Senior Account Director
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Guillaume Biojout
Senior Account Director
Guillaume has 15 years of consumer insight experience at Nielsen BASES, Ipsos and Microsoft. He strongly believes that a deep understanding of the consumers, driven by a real sense of empathy with them, is what will make the current and future brands and products thrive.
Tech enthusiast (some might say “geek”), he constantly follows the latest trends in software and technology to understand how this could be applicable to getting better and deeper human insights in an agile way.
Married to a Thai wife, and hence a bit to Thailand, he loves Asian cultures in general, and Thai food above all!

Mat Sloan
Senior Account Director
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Mat Sloan
Senior Account Director
Mat has a comprehensive, in-depth knowledge and understanding of what is possible in research, helping clients navigate the jargon and cut through the hyperbole. He has extensive experience in all of the core forms of research: qual, quant, ethnography, trends and major tools & products in each area. Mat passionately champions the design and execution of research that gets all stakeholders excited with its clarity, provocation, actionability and that is pleasing on the eye. When Mat’s not working you’ll find him travelling or in the great outdoors: cycling, hiking, or passionately sharing tales of his latest consumer tech discovery.

Lila Yaghsezian
Account Director
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Lila Yaghsezian
Account Director

Hillary Sider
Account Director
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Hillary Sider
Account Director
With more than 10 years of experience working in consumer insights and strategic planning, Hillary's passion lies in solving problems. She excels at understanding what consumers truly want and what clients really need. Hillary is based in Chicago, and when she is not at the office, you will find her hanging with her Australian Shepherd, Gordon, practicing yoga or baking delicious sweets.

Caroline Bland
Account Director
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Caroline Bland
Account Director
Caroline comes with over 20 years of experience working for some of the world’s leading branding consultancies in London, Sydney and now Geneva. Caroline is passionate about understanding peoples behaviours & motivations, and how that translates into targeted strategy, innovation, design - and ultimately brand growth. When she is not working Caroline can be found exploring the wonders of the Swiss Alps, cycling through vineyards or planning her next adventure.

Katie Brewer
Account Director
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Katie Brewer
Account Director
Katie has worked across a wide range of client organisations and sectors to deliver ground-breaking growth strategies and campaigns. She is passionate about getting close to her client’s business and becoming a trusted extension of their teams. She thrives on solving complex problems while ensuring the customer remains at the heart of the solution. When not in work, Katie is busy exploring the South Downs.

Alex Atanasova
Lead Strategist
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Alex Atanasova
Lead Strategist
Alex is a brand strategist and consumer behavior analyst, specializing in consumer culture, trend mapping, and human-centric marketing. She draws on rich international experience across sectors and markets in helping brands of all sizes identify growth opportunities and connect better with consumers. Outside of the office, you’ll find Alex deep reading anything and everything on culture, politics and consumption, road-tripping and eagerly embarking on culinary adventures.

Alice Get
Lead Strategist
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Alice Get
Lead Strategist
Having more than 15 years of experience in online and offline marketing research, Alice leads every project from
a consultative and strategic perspective. Having studied psychology, she’s trained and experienced in exploring, capturing and unravelling insights that drive engagement and change. She loves ‘big qual’ and teams up with clients, bringing a strong commercial awareness to her work. She likes to apply innovative, agile and human-centric approaches inspired by behavioural economics that allow observing System 1 thinking.

Lizzie Rankin
Senior Strategist
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Lizzie Rankin
Senior Strategist
Lizzie is passionate about understanding customer behaviour and the true triggers of decision making. With nearly 10 years of experience in the market research industry in a variety of businesses including Kantar Media and more recently a tech startup, she focuses on delivering insights with real meaning that have a real impact on businesses. She has worked across multiple categories including global studies for leading FMCG companies.

Katya Petrova
Senior Strategist
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Katya Petrova
Senior Strategist

Denitsa Kostova
Strategist
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Denitsa Kostova
Strategist
Denitsa has spent more than 10 years in the marketing departments of companies such as Deloitte, Henkel and Novartis, helping them achieve outstanding results. She enjoys bringing new ideas to market and solving complex problems. She applies her interest in new technologies in designing innovative approaches for brands to build stronger relationships with their customers.

Katrin Nikolova
Strategist
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Katrin Nikolova
Strategist
Katrin has 6 years of experience in Marketing Research, having worked in many different sectors. She admits she loves data is passionate about making data look compelling, exciting and most importantly actionable. She is also a student of the human mind and loves to hike and explore the outside world in her free time.

Temida Marinova
Strategist
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Temida Marinova
Strategist
Temi has almost 6 years of experience in market research, working across the Technology and FMCG sectors mostly focused on customer experience. With a strong analytical background, she is passionate for transforming quantitative data in compelling stories that answer clients' questions and help them create strategies and grow their business.

Daniela Barletta
Strategist
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Daniela Barletta
Strategist
Starting her career as a strategist in creative agencies, Daniela has a passion for making data meaningful. She has helped clients craft their brand identity, create audience segments, launch new products and build messaging hierarchies. From fashion to FMCG, petroleum to paint, her experience spans multiple industries in Europe, East & Southern Africa and the Middle East.
As an advocate for the connection between data and human-focused research, she ensures clients receive recommendations that deliver impact and growth.

Tahmid Ahmed
Strategist
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Tahmid Ahmed
Strategist
Having delivered strategic insights for the likes of Nissan, Google, Uber Eats & Philips, Tahmid brings a variety of both qualitative and quantitative experience that have been aimed at helping clients grow.
Born and bred in South-East London, UK, Tahmid studied Applied Medical Sciences at UCL, with elements of technology, innovation and business strategy, and is now passionate about the world of innovation and insights.
When he’s not watching F1 cars blast round a race track, he’s busy with his family, particularly the younger ones who he has a knack for.

Joanna Stobart
Strategist
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Joanna Stobart
Strategist
Jo has around 4 years’ experience in delivering consumer market research projects, across sectors including media, technology, home entertainment and live events. With a passion for discovering and telling the stories hidden beneath the surface, she is adept at translating figures and transcripts into meaningful insights that brands need to achieve their business goals. She has particular experience in helping clients to launch new products, understand the impact of their comms campaigns, better understand target consumers, and improve their customers’ experiences amongst other areas. In her spare time she likes to travel, hike, watch live music and play board games.

Killian Barry
Strategist
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Killian Barry
Strategist
Killian has over three years agency-side market research experience, having worked previously for Ipsos. He has a broad background in both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, across a wide variety of categories. He is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, where he studied business.

Aidan Lever
Research Development Methodologist
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Aidan Lever
Research Development Methodologist
Aidan has a diverse research background, having previously worked alongside some of the UK’s top academic researchers, consulted on large scale research projects for organisations such as Her Majesties Government and lectured in ‘Research Methods and Advanced Statistics’. During his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, he was awarded two separate research scholarships for his work. His drive is to produce the most valid and valuable consumer insight on the market.

Martina Georgieva
Project Manager
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Martina Georgieva
Project Manager
Martina graduated with a MSc from Lancaster University in the UK in 2018. She has started her career with Catalyx supporting the Project Management team to ensure that everything is as seemless and frictionless for our clients as possible. She is passionate about nutrition and healthy lifestyle as well as creative DIY projects, puzzles and she loves to play pool.

Simeon Fichev
Project Manager
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Simeon Fichev
Project Manager
Simeon has six years of experience in the market research field and has a continual life goal of always building upon himself in whichever field he is involved in. He is passionate about knowledge giving power, and that organized knowledge is everything.
His other passions are electronic music, art and graphic design.

Ivana Nikolova
Project Manager
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Ivana Nikolova
Project Manager
Project manager with demonstrated experience in Market research industry and knowledge in Agile practices and Scrum methodology and development processes. Good in solving complex problems using analytical and organization skills developed over the years of studying Mathematics. Having great business communication skills and recently, design orientated. Interested in understanding of people’s behavior and how visualizations affect them. Love to “escape” reality with a book or painting and of course, with friends.

Josie Shantonas
PA to CEO
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Josie Shantonas
PA to CEO
An administrative and office support specialist, Josie’s keeps the Catalyx cogs turning. She specialises in supporting ambitious organisations grow and establish the right processes along the way. She keeps the Catalyx team sane and lets us know the answers to problems before we have even seen them!

Ekaterina Vateva
Team Co-Ordinator
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Ekaterina Vateva
Team Co-Ordinator
A graduate in Tourism and hospitality management Kate has held diverse roles in multiple international companies such as a project and event manager, coordinator, HR generalist and others, giving her the ability to support, manage and understand people needs. Her time management, attention to detail, social and organizational skills brings her to the position of Team Co-ordinator at Catalyx where she helps with the day to day challenges.

Anas Luzito Maboso
Finance & Accounts
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Anas Luzito Maboso
Finance & Accounts
Anas is a specialist in business administration, new company creation, accounting, tax, VAT and coaching for business management. He ensures Catalyx financials remain ship shape and keeps the money flowing through the system as well as advising us on business structure, HR processes and payroll.