Senior Promotions for Emporia

Emporia Research, a b2b research tech company with locations in New York and Austin, Texas, has announced the promotions of Jason Maddocks to VP Engineering, and Jonathan Blanton to VP Strategic Accounts and Partnerships.

Emporia offers B2B clients a platform called mrxCore, which automates parts of the research process, including participant recruitment and verification, survey creation, interview scheduling and incentive payments. A year ago it secured a $4.7m seed round of funding, for investment in AI, engineering, sales and data partnerships.

Maddocks (pictured left) and Blanton (right) have both worked for the company since it was established in its current form in the autumn of 2023. Maddocks' experience includes spells at IBM and Amazon Web Services, since when he has been CTO for two different companies, commerce platform SkyMode and commercial real estate debt marketplace LOANtuitive, each for more than three years. He has been Emporia's Director of Engineering for the past year.

Blanton's experience includes three years in tax and audit at KPMG, two at supply chain tech consulting firm enVista, and two in supply chain roles at EY. At Emporia he is promoted from Associate Vice President.

Web site: www.emporiaresearch.com .