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After a 14 year career in the Royal Navy, including 7 years flying in Lynx helicopters, Derek undertook an MBA at Cranfield School of Management. He founded Acuigen in 1993, a company that today provides high quality client feedback services and technology – he is also the Managing Director of Business Vision Holdings group of companies. At Acuigen, he is responsible for ensuring that the company’s clients derive the maximum value from their client feedback programmes. He has worked with many top 100 professional services firms and has completed many commercial and public sector client and customer feedback projects. He is a member of the Market Research Society, Accredited Company Partner Council which advocates very high standards of market research.

Ruth is a world-leading expert on research localisation. As founder of award-winning insight localisation agency Empower Translate, and with over three decades at the intersection of the insight and translation industries, Ruth has pioneered initiatives for the betterment of international research. Notably, she has also driven EDI and anti-discrimination activities and in 2023, was selected for the E2E Female 100 list of the UK’s most prominent female disruptors.

Ruths significant contribution to the MRS includes being a member of the ACP Council, a co-lead on the ACP Quality and Standards Committee, a member of the Representation in Research Steering Committee and the MRS Pledge EDI strategic Rebranding Group. She has also made significant contributions to other groups including as a Council Member and Chair of the Association of Translation Companies, FSB Immigration Policy Champion and Woman in Research Executive Network. Her contribution to the development of research, insight and data understanding is via webinars, new guidance and articles.