Consensus Point, revolutionizing market research by providing social predictive analytics, is pleased to announce Edward Gil has joined the company to lead sales and marketing. Mr. Gil brings over 30 years of experience in sales, marketing and development of analytics and business intelligence tools to support Consensus Point’s strategic growth and development.
“Ed’s business intelligence and data warehousing experience and expertise will help Consensus Point capitalize on the exciting opportunities for prediction markets. His insight and leadership positions at IBM, SAS, and Teradata enable us to expand our business with market research, expert network and consulting organizations working across multiple industries,” said Linda Rebrovick, Consensus Point CEO. “We are so fortunate Ed also brings experience as a co-founder and leader of a business intelligence software and services company.”
Mr. Gil has more than 20 years of technology, media, and information management experience. Most recently, he led IBM’s worldwide business analytics & optimization and solution development in media and entertainment. Prior to IBM, Mr. Gil served as the senior strategist for Teradata in media, specializing in data warehousing and business intelligence and also consulted for Aster Data, helping to launch its Big Data Analytics Appliance for media clients. Mr. Gil has sold predictive analytics software for SAS Institute and also co-founded and led Sagemetrics, a provider of enterprise-level business intelligence and data mining services for large media clients such as Discovery Channel, Forbes, Paramount, and The Washington Post.
Mr Gil holds a bachelors of science from The Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Washington, D.C. and also studied at Oxford University, England and The Universidad de Madrid Complutense, Spain.