Real people in real markets, in real time.

Steve Mugford

Co-founder & CEO

Steve has spent 22 years at the intersection of strategy and insights, most recently as Chief Strategy Officer at Capital One, where he led enterprise strategy for one of the most data-driven companies in financial services, with earlier chapters at BCG and Harvard Business School. He founded Flashpoint.AI on a conviction built over that career: research earns its seat at the table when it moves at the speed of the decisions it serves.

Christian Desrosiers

Co-founder & Engineering

Christian is an MIT-trained AI/ML engineer and the architect of the Flashpoint.AI platform. He designed its AI-native core — the reason every action on the platform is available through chat, API, and agent alike — and leads the technical side of the business, working directly with client and partner teams from the Americas to APAC.

Panagiotis Angelopoulos

Data Science

Panagiotis holds a PhD in Statistics and has spent his career building measurement systems where the stakes are real, including as Chief Technology & Data Officer at Persado and in ad tech CTO and CDO roles. He leads the behavioral data science behind Market Experiments — the statistics that make live in-market results readable.

Dave Albert

Research

Dave is a research-industry veteran with more than two decades at GfK, where he rose from research manager to Chief of Staff for North America, followed by leadership as Managing Director of research and data services at ENGINE / Big Village and a senior role at Collage Group. He leads partner success, helping signed agencies put the platform to work on real books of business.

Masha Ievseieva

Marketing

Masha is an MIT-trained marketer with more than 20 years building global brands from white space through launch, with consumer insights at the core. Her career runs across CPG, entertainment, and food & beverage, including P&G, Mars, and Kraft Heinz in US and international markets. At Flashpoint.AI she leads brand marketing across the funnel, translating the platform's methods into the language insights teams and their stakeholders actually use.

Rob McNamara

Partnerships

Rob spent a decade at Forrester and SiriusDecisions advising go-to-market leaders at the world's largest B2B companies on how insight drives revenue, with earlier chapters at Disney and ESPN. At Flashpoint.AI he leads partnerships across brands, agencies, and consultancies, bringing a working knowledge of how research teams actually buy, staff, and deliver.