John K. Thompson
President & CEO
Marketing Sciences

Driving innovation and working with technologies that have the potential to take insight and intelligence to a new level, has been the focus of John’s efforts over the past 21 years.

Starting out as a programmer and arriving at a position of running worldwide marketing and business development for a number of emerging firms has been exciting, fun and rewarding. John’s experience spans all major marketing, product management and business development functions for high technology organizations.

His technology expertise includes Grid Computing, CRM, analytical CRM, data mining, text mining, knowledge discovery, analytical applications, data exploration, data warehousing, database systems, and high performance computing.

John has worked in the US, UK, Latin America, Europe, and Asia regarding the issues around building world-class systems including data warehouses, intelligence infrastructures and applied intelligence systems.

John is a frequent speaker on topics around building and maintaining competitive advantage through innovative technology. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Ferris State University and a MBA in Marketing from DePaul University.