Jay Wilson

William "Jay" Wilson was most recently Executive Chairman (North America) of NOP World, one of the top ten global market research companies. In this role, he was responsible for helping grow NOP World globally, both through organic initiatives and through the identification and evaluation of potential acquisitions in the U.S. and abroad. Previous to this, Jay was Chairman and CEO of Roper Starch Worldwide, which he sold to NOP World in 2001. He was responsible for taking a small, struggling research company and creating one of the world's foremost multinational market and media research companies worth over $80 million at the time of its sale. He also was responsible for founding one of the world's first truly international research alliances - INRA, of which Roper Starch was an originating member.

Jay has held a number of key leadership positions in the market research industry, including being Co-Chair of the Council of Marketing and Opinion Research (CMOR) and a Board Member of the Partnership of Research Associations. He was elected to the Market Research Council Hall of Fame in 2001 and, in April 2003, received the prestigious ARF Industry Leadership Award. He is a graduate of Yale University and holds an MA-equivalent degree in Historical Studies from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England.