Our Team
Don Golden and Partha Pudhota founded precision Sample in 2009. After successfully founding and establishing Clear Voice Research as a leading sample provider, Don and Partha saw significant gaps among emerging technologies and practices in the online research industry.
Precision Sample was founded to address those gaps. In 2013, Precision Sample proudly joined the MetrixLab family of companies and became the in-house North American sample supplier to supplement MetrixLab’s existing OpinionBar European Panels.
Don Golden
CEO/Co-Founder
Don leads all sales, marketing, and business development for the company. Before founding Precision Sample in 2008, he was the Founder and President of Clear Voice Research. Under his leadership, the company grew to multi-million revenues and became a leading online sample provider. Prior to founding Clear Voice, he was a Senior Manager of Panel Acquisition at goZing, which was subsequently acquired by Greenfield Online. At goZing and Greenfield, Don led teams responsible for acquiring millions of panelists annually, and prospecting and engaging outsourced sample vendors worldwide. He has also worked at Tonos Entertainment, an online musician community, eHobbies.com, an online hobby retailer, and Full Moon Interactive, an interactive agency.
Don has over twenty years of experience building and managing online research panels. He holds a BA in Economics from Rollins College. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling and spending time with his family, mountain biking, motocross, waterskiing, and boating.
Pat heads up the technology and product development teams. Pat has been a pioneer in the internet marketing and software development field for more than 17+ years. In his role, he provides the vision and development leadership for Precision’s next generation of online marketing, analytics, and digital technology platform.
Since the early 1990s, Pat has held various executive positions in Fortune 100 companies (Retail, Automotive & Marketing Industries) and has achieved progressive growth and success in developing and implementing comprehensive technology solutions. Most recently, Pat has created and sold a Digital Marketing Technology company that has been instrumental in creating key business drive for a major Marketing Services agency in Texas. He is currently developing Precision’s Technology platform, a robust set of architectures and comprehensive frameworks (Software as a Service (SaaS) Frameworks) that are easy to connect, develop and integrate! In his spare time, Pat is an avid world traveler and enjoys music, cooking, and philanthropy. His life ambition is to deliver quality medical care in India for the underprivileged—for FREE!
Pat Pudhota
CTO/ Co-Founder
Pat Pudhota
CTO/ Co-Founder
Pat heads up the technology and product development teams. Pat has been a pioneer in the internet marketing and software development field for more than 17+ years. In his role, he provides the vision and development leadership for Precision’s next generation of online marketing, analytics, and digital technology platform.
Since the early 1990s, Pat has held various executive positions in Fortune 100 companies (Retail, Automotive & Marketing Industries) and has achieved progressive growth and success in developing and implementing comprehensive technology solutions. Most recently, Pat has created and sold a Digital Marketing Technology company that has been instrumental in creating key business drive for a major Marketing Services agency in Texas. He is currently developing Precision’s Technology platform, a robust set of architectures and comprehensive frameworks (Software as a Service (SaaS) Frameworks) that are easy to connect, develop and integrate! In his spare time, Pat is an avid world traveler and enjoys music, cooking, and philanthropy. His life ambition is to deliver quality medical care in India for the underprivileged—for FREE!
Adam Stephenson
EVP, Client Development
Adam is a seasoned market research veteran, having spent the entirety of his research career specializing in online sample fieldwork solutions. Often referred to by his clients as “the most responsive salesperson in the MR industry West of the Mississippi river,” Adam always goes above and beyond, both on and off the clock, to ensure that Precision Sample’s client project needs are expedited and made the utmost priority. He is a wizard at finding fully feasible solutions for any global B2C/B2B target audience across a variety of sample sourcing methods, including both online & CATI (phone-to-web).
Throughout his past seven years in market research, Adam has brought in hundreds of new client accounts and prides himself in creating and cultivating long-term strategic partnerships with his clients. In his spare time, Adam has a passion for photography, skateboarding, and attending concerts with his wife Erica—that is, when he isn’t on dad duty for his daughter Dakota and being a cat dad for his two cats, Oliver and Roby.
Yan brings to Precision Sample a multi-faceted perspective through her 25+ years in project management, operations management, and sales. Most recently, Yan leveraged her extensive sample industry knowledge at uSamp as Vice-President, Global Operations. She was responsible for a global project management team of forty and created uSamp’s programming and hosting offering. Her career started in face-to-face qualitative research at Greenfield Consulting Group. This led her to manage online services at Greenfield Online (Nasdaq:SRVY), where she was responsible for the North American Sample Only business with her team of 30 project managers in the US, India, and Canada. Yan brings a unique perspective to her operational skill set as she has spent time at uSamp and Precision Sample in full-time sales roles. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Fairfield University, University and is a former board member of the Greater New York Insights Association.
Throughout her career, Yan has been instrumental in the development and growth of delivery teams, and the implementation of processes that assure the highest level of client satisfaction. Yan lives in Connecticut with her family.
Yan Hurlbut
SVP, Global Operations
Yan Hurlbut
SVP, Global Operations
Yan brings to Precision Sample a multi-faceted perspective through her 25+ years in project management, operations management, and sales. Most recently, Yan leveraged her extensive sample industry knowledge at uSamp as Vice-President, Global Operations. She was responsible for a global project management team of forty and created uSamp’s programming and hosting offering. Her career started in face-to-face qualitative research at Greenfield Consulting Group. This led her to manage online services at Greenfield Online (Nasdaq:SRVY), where she was responsible for the North American Sample Only business with her team of 30 project managers in the US, India, and Canada. Yan brings a unique perspective to her operational skill set as she has spent time at uSamp and Precision Sample in full-time sales roles. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Fairfield University, University and is a former board member of the Greater New York Insights Association.
Throughout her career, Yan has been instrumental in the development and growth of delivery teams, and the implementation of processes that assure the highest level of client satisfaction. Yan lives in Connecticut with her family.
