Dave Richardson

Dave is a business and industry leader whose professional research training has most often been used to apply research to communications strategy on business and policy questions. Prior to starting Artemis, Dave was President of WirthlinWorldwide and then Group President of Harris Interactive when it acquired WirthlinWorldwide in 2004. He was part of the team that built WirthlinWorldwide into one of the largest and most respected brand research and strategy advisors to major corporations, associations and non-profit organizations around the world. Dave is a Board member of CASRO, the research industry trade association and served as Board Chairman in 2005.

Dave has had a long term interest and involvement in public policy and its intersection with the private sector. That interest goes back to early years as Vice President at Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc. and as a manager for Mathematica Policy Research focusing on social policy research studies. He also did a stint as Vice President and Director of Marketing Research at Bank of America, responsible for retail and corporate marketing, product, service and communications research. He has a BA from Yale and Master of Public Affairs from the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute.