​Our firm's leadership worked closely with Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen -- rated by Thinkers 50 as the world’s top management thinker -- to build consulting practices based on his research.  Our findings are regularly shared in leading business publications, including Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and The Financial Times, and our award-winning books include Capturing New Markets (McGraw-Hill, 2011), Jobs to be Done (HarperCollins, 2016), and Costovation (HarperCollins, 2018).  

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Stephen Wunker, Managing DirectoR

Steve Wunker led development of one of the world’s first smartphones, has built and sold several successful businesses, and advises companies worldwide on creating and executing bold plans for growth. 

Steve is the noted author of three award-winning books: Capturing New Markets: How Smart Companies Create Opportunities Others Don't (McGraw-Hill, 2011), Jobs to be Done: A Roadmap for Customer-Centered Innovation (HarperCollins Leadership, 2016), and Costovation: Innovation That Gives Your Customers Exactly What They Want--And Nothing More (HarperCollins Leadership, 2018). He also writes for Forbes, Harvard Business Review, The Financial Times, and other major outlets.  Steve’s media appearances include Bloomberg and BBC television, and he has been a guest lecturer at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business.
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As a leading consultant on growth and innovation for the past dozen years, Steve was a long-term colleague of Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen in building up his innovation consulting practice.  He has co-written two articles with Professor Christensen and helped to put together his book on healthcare The Innovator’s Prescription.  He also spent several years consulting at Bain & Company in their Boston and London offices.   He founded New Markets Advisors in 2009 and advises innovative companies across industries, including Nestlé, Boston Scientific, Cognizant, and Nike. 

As an entrepreneur and corporate venturer, Steve has been a pioneer in the development and use of smartphones.  He led the team creating one of the first, in the late 1990s, and since then he created trailblazing companies in mobile marketing, commerce, and social networking.  Steve’s international experience is vast, and his companies have been based in the US, UK, the Netherlands, South Africa, Zambia, and India.

Steve has an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Master’s of Public Administration from Columbia University, and a BA cum laude from Princeton University.  

Click for Steve's full bio and a complete list of his publications, as well as information on speaking engagements. ​

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brad lang, senior advisor

Brad has extensive general management, innovation, marketing, finance, and external partnership experience in a variety of Global, North America, and Europe roles across his 25-year career with Procter & Gamble.  He has led businesses, brands, and innovation programs across the company, most recently as Vice President/General Manager for the company-wide $3B+ New Business Creation portfolio.  His consumer-driven business and innovation experience extends across home, personal, health, and beauty care categories for existing and new brands.  As a senior executive advisor, he has experience with Fortune 500 and startups across a broader range of industries from food to automotive lubricants to health insurance to online retail.

​His business leadership and innovation track record includes successes in a range of markets, business models, and situations.  He is a hands-on builder of businesses, brands, teams, and people that can architect propositions from insight to market. He has significant experience applying Jobs to be Done to help reinvent categories and brands, create disruptive innovations, and drive discontinuous growth.  In his work with New Markets, he brings a “practitioner’s view” to help clients activate the Jobs to be Done approach and outcomes across their innovation, brand building, and go-to-market programs.

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Dr. Tanya Knight, Principal

Dr. Tanya Knight has worked with the New Markets team members since 2004 across dozens of disease states, specialties, healthcare professions, and facility types. She has consulted on white space scans and unmet needs for a broad variety of pharmaceutical, consumer healthcare, and medical device companies. In addition to her consulting work, Tanya has served as interim General Manager of ReferralHub, a start-up that provides an integrated electronic referral and reporting solution for medical providers and managed care organizations.
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Tanya specialized in ophthalmology during her residency at Yale New Haven Hospital. She was also a medical researcher at the University of Michigan.  She obtained her MD at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and earned a BA from Yale University.

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Dave Farber, Principal

Dave Farber is a Principal at New Markets Advisors, specializing in growth strategy and innovation. His practice focuses on working with companies to find and capture new sources of growth. In his time with New Markets, Dave has helped a number of companies develop organic sources of new revenue, having yielded successful results for clients spanning four continents and a wide range of industries. His work has included helping clients launch new products, evaluate and enter new markets, develop alternative business models, and build the capabilities to make innovation sustainable and repeatable.
 
Dave has extensive experience employing the Jobs to be Done framework in his client engagements. This work includes conducting direct customer research, assessing the current state and future potential of target markets, leading innovation workshops, and building innovation programs that leverage Jobs-based principles. He is a co-author of the book Jobs to be Done: A Roadmap for Customer-Centered Innovation ​(Amacom, 2016).
 
Dave is also a licensed Massachusetts attorney. Prior to joining New Markets, his work focused on external sources of growth, including M&A transactions, strategic partnerships, and startup advisory services. His experience included time at leading law firms in the U.S. and Belgium. He also spent time at Brookfield Renewable Power, providing legal advice and strategic guidance to senior management.
 
Dave is a magna cum laude graduate of Villanova Law School, where he was a managing editor of the Villanova Law Review. He is also a magna cum laude graduate of American University.

​Click for Dave's full bio and a complete list of his publications.  ​

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Jennifer Luo Law, Principal

Jennifer Law is a seasoned researcher of trends, disruptive strategies, and Jobs to be Done thinking.  At New Markets, she has led projects across a wide range of industries, particularly those rocked by disruption--such as education, publishing, IT, consumer goods, and financial services.  She is also co-author, with Stephen Wunker, of Costovation: Innovation That Gives Your Customers Exactly What They Want--And Nothing More (HarperCollins, August 2018), which was recognized by The Globe and Mail as one of the ten best business books of 2018, among several other awards.

Jennifer came to New Markets with a background in education.  After teaching in Denmark, she was funded by a Fulbright grant from the U.S. State Department to teach in South Korea and research comparative international education.  Jennifer was also a publicist at Stanford University Press, where she handled over 60 books.  

Jennifer graduated cum laude from Williams College with a major in English and leadership positions in the Math and Dance Departments.  She continues to dance today with a semi-professional company in Boston.  Jennifer placed 8th at the US national synchronized skating championship, and speaks Mandarin Chinese.  

Click for Jennifer's full bio and a complete list of her publications.

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nicholas sandoval, director business development

Nick leads sales and marketing for New Markets Advisors. He has compiled over six years of enterprise B2B business development experience across the professional services industry. Originally from Chicago, Nick started his career in sales at Business Talent Group tasked with lead generation across the Fortune 1000. After nearly four years at BTG, he moved to Salesforce working in the Financial Services and Insurance vertical before moving to New York to grow the US presence for a Swiss based Life Sciences consultancy called Genioo.
 
Nick graduated from the University of Dayton with a bachelors degree in Broadcast Journalism. He is a die-hard college basketball fan and enjoys traveling, trying new restaurants and staying active.

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Marielle De Blois, Manager

​Marielle De Blois brings brand management, marketing, and entrepreneurial experience to New Markets Advisors. She worked for four years at Procter & Gamble’s regional headquarters for Latin America, where she led the brand strategy for head&shoulders across the region. This entailed developing and implementing the brand’s overall innovation strategy—she launched four new products and designed their go-to-market strategies, messaging, and multi-channel marketing plans. She also spearheaded the digital strategy for head&shoulders across Latin America and developed the ongoing communication strategy for the brand, including a complete rebranding campaign.
 
Marielle also has experience in the healthcare and education sectors. As an account supervisor for Hill Holliday, she led the marketing strategy for a newly launched product by Novartis. She also founded an adult education start-up for the Panamanian market.
 
Marielle received her MBA magna cum laude from Babson College, and her BA summa cum laude from Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas, Venezuela. She currently serves as an academic and business advisor to undergraduate students at Harvard University. She speaks Spanish and French. 

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Charlotte Desprat, Manager

​Charlotte has led projects across a wide range of fields, including medical technology, social media, and retail financial services.  Her work has often been multinational in nature, and she came to New Markets with a background in global affairs and diplomacy.  At the Carnegie Moscow Center think tank, Charlotte published commentaries on French-Russian relations and interviewed prominent economists and industry experts about the future of Russia’s oil and gas sector.  An avid French and Russian speaker, she was also Editor-in-Chief of Accent Magazine, a multilingual university publication, and worked as a certified translator at the Quinnipiac Civil Justice Clinic and the Yale Law School’s Schell Center for International Human Rights.  As an interpreter, she most recently helped a political refugee from the Congo gain asylum in the United States and assisted Haitian advocates in their appeal to the United Nations.
 
Charlotte graduated cum laude from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts in History and a focus on Soviet Russian studies.  Although she is a French citizen and native speaker, she was raised largely in Prague.  She is a veteran of New Markets’ Boston office and is now based in Europe.

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Jordon Russell, Manager

Jordon brings business development and marketing expertise to New Markets Advisors. Prior to his MBA, he worked in consulting for Business Talent Group, structuring engagements for clients across healthcare and technology. He began his career at Gartner, providing IT research and advisory services, and aligning internal resources for client initiatives ranging from IT strategy to implementation. Jordon also brings experience in pharmaceuticals. As an MBA intern at Horizon Therapeutics, he helped launch the company's first patient call center for their flagship treatment, KRYSTEXXA.
  
Jordon received his MBA from Vanderbilt University with concentrations in strategy, marketing, and healthcare. He is actively involved with Junior Achievement, equipping students with educational tools needed for financial literacy. 

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Brock Staskawicz, Manager

Now in his third year at New Markets Advisors, Brock Staskawicz has led projects across a wide range of contexts including financial services, apparel, education, and consumer services. Previously, Brock worked in Malawi on an NSF-sponsored water treatment research project, which brought together US researchers, local Malawian government offices, and various non-profit organizations. He is also an entrepreneur, having led the business and creative development of a pop-up bakery in New Haven, CT.  
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Brock has a BS in Chemical Engineering and History of Art from Yale University.  

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Conor Fitzpatrick, Senior Associate

​Conor came to New Markets in 2016 with experience in small business, as well as pancreatic cancer research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a collaborative community pioneering a new model of biomedical science.  Conor has served as the Executive Editor and Associate Director of Marketing & Content at Business Today, North America's most widely distributed student business publication.  He designed the content for Business Today's flagship International Conference website, and conducted Jobs to be Done analysis to create new niche career content for Business Today's Online Journal.  With New Markets, Conor has undertaken an array of engagements including designing the incubation function for a major technology company and drafting analyst reports on emerging biotech companies and therapies for a Wall Street investment bank.

Conor has a BA in Economics from Princeton University.  He is also an accomplished jazz trumpeter, and has performed at Boston’s Symphony Hall, the Newport Jazz Festival, and other distinguished venues.  

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Dan Paikowsky, senior Associate

Now in his second year with New Markets, Dan Paikowsky has worked with healthcare, technology, and publishing firms to understand Jobs to be Done and plot new strategies. Dan came to New Markets with a background in strategy and entrepreneurship. Before joining our team, Dan spent two years as a consultant with Monitor Deloitte in their Tel-Aviv office, where his work focused on defining growth and go to market strategy for high growth companies in the Israeli innovation ecosystem. Having worked with companies ranging in size from pre-seed startups to industry leaders, Dan has helped a number of companies bring new products to market, many of which have gone on to become recognized as leaders in their respective fields.

Additionally, Dan has founded a real estate investment and management company and contributed to the founding of a creative incubator in Boston's Dudley Square.

Dan is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Massachusetts, with a BS in both Finance and Entrepreneurship. He is a dual citizen of Israel and the US, and speaks Hebrew.

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KAYLA SERVIN, ASSOCIATE

Kayla brings research, education, and advisory experience to New Markets. Prior to joining the team, Kayla worked in consulting at Novarica, supporting a wide range of insurance technology strategy projects, and publishing research focused on emerging technologies, talent management, and leadership strategies. Previously, as a World Languages faculty member at Tilton School, she designed curricula for the program and taught five sections of French.
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Kayla has a BA in both French and Arabic Studies from Williams College, where she completed her honors thesis in translation. She was also a member of the cross country and track teams. 

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Lauren Chapey, associate

​Lauren comes to New Markets with a background in innovation and entrepreneurship. She has worked on a number of startup projects, ranging from a biomedical device for pediatric humerus fractures, to a bicycle security system and an injury prevention device for runners. Before joining the team, Lauren worked as an engineer for a product design startup, where she assisted on the mechanical design and user-centered development of a wide range of consumer products. She has also served as a Design Aide at the Yale Center for Engineering Innovation and Design.
 
Lauren graduated with distinction with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University in 2020. She was a member of the varsity cross country and track teams and was elected Captain for her senior season.

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Jerry Chen, Associate

Jerry joined New Markets with previous experience in finance, having worked at Natixis Investment Managers and at Bain Capital. Jerry is entering his Senior year at Northeastern where he is studying for a Finance and Consulting degree.

​On campus, he has served as the Treasurer and Philanthropy chairs for his fraternity. Jerry attended high school in Hong Kong, and has lived in Hong Kong, Boston, and Sydney. He plays classical guitar and is an avid fan of the Boston Celtics. He also speaks Mandarin Chinese. 

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Stach Jaran, Associate

Stach joined New Markets with a background in entrepreneurial companies, from a superfoods start-up in Singapore to time at Terrafugia, a “flying car” company based near Boston.

Stach is also studying for an International Business degree at Northeastern University, and he has a certificate from East China Normal University. Stach attended high school in China, and grew up in both China and the United States. He speaks Mandarin Chinese.

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Caroline Thibault, Associate

​Caroline comes to New Markets with a background in business, design, and entrepreneurship. Prior to joining the team, she worked on a number of innovation projects. From designing a nature program for students in cities, to building a peer-sharing rental app, Caroline loves to create new solutions. She is passionate about combining the human-centered design process with strategic business problem-solving to build a world that works better for people. 
 
Caroline is in her third year at Northeastern University, studying for a degree in Business Administration and Design, with concentrations in Marketing and Experience Design and a minor in Communications. She is an artist, graphic designer, creative writer, and avid hiker. She grew up in the US and in Belgium.

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Janice ​Infanzón, Head of Administration

Janice Infanzón oversees payroll, accounts, HR, and other administrative duties that keep New Markets' offices running smoothly. Janice has over 25 years of experience in office administration, paralegal services, and marketing; most recently, she was an executive assistant for a leading specialty insurance broker for the healthcare industry.

Janice has a JD from the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico and a BS in Business Administration from American University. She is fluent in Spanish.

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Angela Perozzi, Researcher

​Angela Perozzi comes to New Markets with deep expertise in writing and research. Her most recent role was as a freelance legal writer, which was preceded by a long career as a real estate attorney in the greater Boston area.
 
Angela is a licensed attorney in Massachusetts and New York State. She received her JD from Suffolk University Law School and graduated cum laude from the University of New Hampshire. She is also a certified sports nutritionist. 

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Sol Martinez, Project assistant

​Sol Martinez supports our office in a range of administrative duties including recruiting participants for market research, organizing notes, creating reports, and data entry. A talented visual artist, Sol comes to New Markets with considerable experience in commercial photography and film, customer service, and sales. Fluent in Spanish, Sol is a graduate of the Universidad Del Sagrado Corazón in San Juan, where she studied Communications, Photography, and Film. 

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