Managing Director Globalpark UK Ltd.

Alex Wilke

Alex Wilke has over 12 years of market research experience and for the past 7 years he mainly focused on online research. He previously headed up Infocorp Ltd’s online department, where he project managed and implemented well over 300 online projects.

Whether it’s employee, business to business or consumer research, Alex uses his experience in the implementation of online research to advise businesses on best practices and how to maximize returns and efficiency. Alex also helped setting up one of the first Market Research panels in the UK and has consulted many of the UK’s leading HR agencies on online employee research.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Globalpark

Dr. Lorenz Gräf

Dr. Lorenz Gräf, in the capacity of Chief Executive Officer, provides leadership for Globalpark AG and the Globalpark Group of Companies. He has been conducting research and working in the field of social sciences IT and online market research since 1988. He is the author of numerous books and specialist articles about online research. In 1997, Dr. Gräf organized the first GOR (German Online Research) conference in Cologne. In the “VIRTUS” (Virtual University Systems) project in the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Cologne, Dr Gräf was the manager of the evaluation team. From 1997 to 2004 he was a board member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Online-Forschung e.V. (German Society for Online Research). In 1999, he founded Globalpark GmbH in conjunction with Prof. Dr. Batinic. The company was converted into a public limited company (AG) in 2008.

Globalpark’s Chief Operating Officer

Andreas Sternowski

Mr Sternowski is Globalpark’s Chief Operating Officer. He is a graduate of the Gdansk University of Technology. After many years of employment as a journalist with the Polish Broadcasting Company, he worked as an engineer in Germany before branching out into sales and business development with international software companies, including the SAS Institute and Redwood Software, where he worked in various management capacities.

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Andreas Sternowski is also a graduate of the Free University of Berlin, in the Executive Master of Business Marketing program.

Chairperson of Globalpark AG’s supervisory board

Prof. Dr. Bernad Batinic

Bernad Batinic is a professor of Learning and Working with New Media at the University of Linz. In 1994, he performed the first World Wide Web survey in the German-speaking countries and published the first guideline for the correct conduct of online surveys.

It was under his leadership that GOR (German Online Research) took place in Nuremberg in 1999. Batinic is the founder and chairman of the biggest mailing list in the German-speaking countries (GIR-L) concerning online research topics, on which more than 1,300 experts exchange information. He is also the author of numerous books on the subject of online research. Since 1998 he has been the editor of the “Internet und Psychologie” (“Internet and Psychology”) series of books (Hogrefe Verlag).