Multiple Hires for Sago Sales Team

Research tech and services firm Sago has appointed Angela Quinn, Bill Cohen and Aaron Walton in senior sales and business development roles, and Kelly Kitchens as VP Customer Success.

Iselin, NJ-based Sago was known until 2023 as Schlesinger Associates, and offers a broad range of managed and self-serve qual and quant solutions. The firm has a global network of proprietary facilities, panels and partnerships providing worldwide data collection and project management services.

Kitchens worked for Research Now / SSI for a decade, the latter half of it as Manager, Director and then Senior Director of Client Services; then four years in product and marketing roles at Prodege, and eighteen months as a VP at QualSights. She is also a past President of the South Central Chapter of the Insights Association, and currently on its Board of Advisors.

Cohen has more than twenty-five years' custom, syndicated and DIY market research sales and operations experience: his career includes nine years at Nielsen, latterly as VP Enterprise Sales; three in sales and marketing at influencer marketing firm Burns Entertainment; and four as VP, Sales Growth and Strategy at Kantar. In the last five years he has served as VP and/or SVP of Sales at Toluna, Prodege and Screen Engine/ASI. His title at Sago is SVP, Business Development and Sales.

Quinn joins as Director of Sales and Development. Her experience includes more than four years at Dallas-based b2b data collection firm Currant Fielding Solutions, most of it as Sales and Marketing Director, and a year as a Customer Relationship Manager at Boston Research Services. Most recently she worked as Sales Director at Arizona-based Ironwood Insights Group (IIG).

Walton worked at EMI Research Solutions for fourteen years, latterly as an SVP, then for three and a half years as Senior Account Executive at Galvin Technologies, before joining Paradigm Sample in 2021. His role at Sago is VP Business Development.

'Every new salesperson is a growth decision,' says Chawntae Applegate, the firm's EVP Global Sales Leader. 'Sago is choosing people who can win today and scale tomorrow. Our continued investment in high-producing talent is central to building a resilient, high-performance culture that consistently delivers results for our clients.'

Web site: www.sago.com .