Team Members

Pepper Miller

Bud McCullen

Charlotte Bandele

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TEAM MEMBERS

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Pepper Miller

President

pmiller@huntermillergroup.com

Pepper Miller founded The Hunter-Miller Group (HMG), a consumer research, trend analysis and marketing strategy company, in 1985 and, since then, has been helping Fortune 500 companies understand how to effectively and positively market their products and messages to the African-American market. Some corporate clients include: American Airlines, Allstate, General Motors, General Mills, Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, and Procter and Gamble. 

• In September 2005, Pepper and co-author Herb Kemp launched the landmark African-American marketing book, What’s Black About It? Insights to Increase Your Share of a Changing African-American Market.  Paramount Market Publishers www.paramountbooks.com
• Pepper served as co-research partner and consultant for the first ever segmentation study on African-American women commissioned by Essence Magazine:  The 2005 WOW II (Window on Our Women) Study.
• Pepper established the Ruth C. Hunter Market Research Scholarship Fund to expose and encourage African-American students to consider market research as a career option. 
• HMG publishes “Market Snapshot,” a monthly statistical electronic bulletin focused on African-American consumers; each issue examines one topic in detail and includes both demographic and psychographic information.

   

  AWARDS:

  -     July 2007 – Target Market News MAXX Award  for Research Executive of the Year

  -     April 2007 – Recognized as one of 50 Women of Excellence by the Chicago Defender Newspaper

  -     2006 – Tied for Best Speaker (out of 27 speakers) at the prestigious Marketing 2 Women Conference

  -     2006 – Recognition for Outstanding Author from the Illinois Chapter of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers

  -     2001 –  Recipient of the David Ogilvy Research Award for the Census 2000 Advertising Campaign.

Pepper has been an invited speaker at numerous Fortune 500 companies including Proctor and Gamble, Colgate, General Mills, McDonald’s, Home Depot, Johnson & Johnson, Burrell Communications and Macy’s . Her conference presentations include Rutgers University, Marketing 2 Women, FraserNet, American Marketing Association, Strategic Research Institute, National Association of Market Developers and more. She can be reached at 773-363-7420 or pepmhmg1aol.com or visit HMG’s web site at www.huntermillergroup.com.  

Pepper’s 2006 Speaking Engagements and Testimonials

Bud McCullen

Senior Analyst and Strategic Planning

bmccullen@huntermillergroup.com

Since teaming with The Hunter-Miller Group in 1995, Bud has provided strategic analysis as well as marketing and advertising insights in the form of recommendations for many Hunter-Miller clients. Additionally, Bud is well versed and experienced in numerous research techniques and is an accomplished moderator and interviewer.

Bud is an 18-year veteran of Chicago’s top advertising agencies, including Leo Burnett (10 years), J. Walter Thompson (3 years) and Ogilvy and Mather (5 years). He has directed and managed the advertising, marketing and research functions for a variety of top marketers, specifically including Quaker, Discover Card, United Airlines and Phillip Morris.

Bud has a BS from Cornell University and an MBA in Marketing from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

Charlotte Bandele

RIVA trained moderator & member of QRCA (Qualitative Research Consultants Association)

charlotte@huntermillergroup.com

Charlotte is a RIVA trained moderator and a member of QRCA (Qualitative Research Consultants Association).

  
In her 20-year professional career, she has also held roles in product development, marketing strategy and marketing research for several financial services firms, new product development and advertising research. Additionally, she has also been a guest lecturer at Columbia College.

Charlotte is an energetic and passionate moderator who is flexible and has the ability to build rapport with respondents. She has successfully conducted qualitative research for:

• Ford Motor Company
• UniWorld Group, Inc.
• Nissan Motors
• Bristol Myers-Squibb
• University of Chicago Hospitals
• Illinois Democratic Party
• Metropolitan Planning Council
• U.S. Army
• GlaxoSmithKline
• Zondervan
• Allstate
• E. Morris Communications

Charlotte holds a BA from Howard University and an MBA in Marketing from The University of Illinois at Chicago. 

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