After a long run as a consulting and client leader at Ipsos by way of GfK, Tim Spenny is now at Conveo helping to chart the future of qualitative research at scale.

But once upon a time, Tim was fronting original and cover bands all around Chicago playing classic venues like the Double Door, the Subterranean, Big Horse and more.

Tim traces his journeys through both insights and music and shares his optimistic vision for the future of the insights practice.

Robert Pierson is currently the SVP North America at the UK-based insight firm, Rigour Research, and a member of the board of British American Business Council, Chicago.

Robert has had a fascinating journey from organizing techno raves to relocating to the US through acquisition at 451 Research to leading business development at Kantar Profiles and helping expand the sport of polo in Chicago.

Listen in as Robert traces his unique career path, discusses novel ways to address data quality and chooses three desert island discs that are firsts to the Rock n’ Roll Research Podcast.

Fresh from winning the Expert Choice and Audience Favorite Awards at the 2026 Greenbook IIEX Insights Innovation Competition, I sit down with Angelique Taylor, founder of AddMaple, to discuss her fascinating back story.

Ange founded AddMaple to solve a long-standing set of challenges she faced as a consultant; specifically, how to connect the dots, see the full picture and share the insight story while collapsing the time spent on rote data transformation and process tasks. The result is a tremendously intuitive and powerful platform.

But somehow Ange finds time for her passion project as a singer/songwriter and an amazing one at that!

(Note: This interview was recorded just days before awards announcement.)