Our People
We are a team of thought leaders and research experts, fully focused on understanding the media industry and providing outcomes that reflect this understanding. Our success as a company is a direct result of this knowledge, experience and a collective dedication to what we do.
David Baird
Senior Vice President, Research Operations
David has been with Coleman Insights since 2004 and oversees all research and field department operations at the company. He came to us from KMSO in Missoula, Montana, where he was the Program Director for three years. David also has radio air talent experience and worked in the publicity department at Asylum Records in Nashville, Tennessee after earning degrees from both Indiana University and Middle Tennessee State University.
In his free time, David sings in a band, collects records, and brews his own beer.
John Boyne
Executive Vice President, Senior Consultant
As Executive Vice President/Senior Consultant at Coleman Insights, John Boyne uses customized research to help media properties better understand the tastes, habits, and perceptions of consumers, and in turn, create strategies for building strong brands and developing great content.
2020 marked John’s 20th year with the company, specializing in the audio entertainment space, including radio, streaming, and podcasting.
He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and lives in Raleigh with his wife and two children.
Kimberly Bryant
Director of Client Services
Kimberly has a long history with Coleman Insights, starting as a part-time Research Assistant and working off and on with the team between 2004 and 2008. She then turned her focus to college, where she earned her Bachelors of Arts in Theatre Arts and a minor in Alcohol & Drug Addiction Studies from East Carolina University. After college she worked for North Carolina Theatre as Wardrobe Supervisor, Costume Designer, and ultimately Conservatory Administrator. She finally found her way back to the Coleman Insights team in 2018 when she became Field Coordinator and was promoted to Director of Client Services in 2021. Kimberly's crowning achievement is becoming a mother in 2022. Kimberly and her husband enjoy spending their free time with friends and family, attending the theatre, and playing board games.
Jon Coleman
Founder
Jon Coleman founded Coleman Insights in 1978. Through much of the 80s, Jon also served as a vice president for Capitol Broadcasting Company. Prior to forming Coleman Insights and leading Capitol’s radio group, Jon held various positions with TM Programming in Dallas, Frank N. Magid Associates in Marion, Iowa and The Media Associates in Dallas. Jon holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota and a Master of Arts degree in Communications from the University of Oregon.
Mandy Couch
Senior Music Specialist
Mandy attended North Carolina State University, where she majored in English.
A veteran of the team since August of 2000, Mandy’s one of our resident musicologists who works behind-the-scenes on client research projects.
She loves discovering new music, journaling, reading and vacationing. All of which are dependent upon her two kids running her ragged!
Jennifer Donnelly
Senior Music Specialist
Jennifer Donnelly started working at Coleman Insights in 1994, making her one of the longest tenured team members. She graduated from Western Carolina University in 1991, loves visiting Ireland, spending time with friends and family and watching television. Challenge her to 80s music trivia at your own peril.
Joshua Franklin
IT Manager
Joshua started his career with Coleman Insights in 1998, and is working on his degree at Campbell University in Information Security Management.
Joshua enjoys reading, computer games, soccer (NC Courage!), as well as playing and designing board games.
Eileen Genna
Senior Vice President, Business Operations
Eileen has been at Coleman Insights since 1997 and oversees the company’s finances, human resources, facilities and information technology infrastructure. She has over 35 years of accounting experience and previously worked at Casablanca Records, Polygram Records & Filmworks and Megaforce Records.
She attended the State University of New York at Farmingdale and California State University, Los Angeles.
Emma Guild
Senior Project Coordinator/Integr8 Research
Emma graduated from UNC Asheville in 2011 with a degree in statistics. She makes sure the numbers in the Integr8 reports are the right ones. In her free time, she plays D&D with her partner and friends—in other words, when she’s not doing math for work, she does math for fun. Her favorite mathematical formula is the expected value function.
Stephanie Harper
Assistant Project Manager
Stephanie joined Coleman Insights in March 2018. She attended Central Christian College of Kansas, where she majored in Communications w/ an emphasis on Mass Media. She worked in various positions at Central Christian College in production and social media roles.
Stephanie enjoys reading, journaling/crafting, watching Grey’s Anatomy, and exploring the great state of North Carolina!
Mackenzie Holcombe
Project Coordinator/Integr8 Research
Mackenzie joined Integr8 Research in 2021 and has since gotten her AS taking classes part-time. She has always had an interest in music, so testing the quality of audio clips is her favorite part of the job! Outside of work, she enjoys reading, playing video games with friends, and going to the gym.
Warren Kurtzman
President
Warren was named President of Coleman Insights in August 2008. He joined the team as a vice president in 1995. His background includes 11 years in broadcasting management and media research with Strategic Radio Research, Arbitron, Inc., WUUU-FM/Utica and WVBR-FM/Ithaca.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Policy Analysis from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and a Masters in Business Administration from New York University. Warren is an avid sports (especially hockey) fan.
Nick Lombardo
Senior Project Manager
After spending time as Sr. Research Analyst at Dalbar and Research Manager at Cision, Nick joined Coleman Insights in 2009. Nick graduated from University of New Hampshire with a degree in Business Administration.
Outside of work, Nick loves home brewing beer, spending time with family and following Boston sports.
Sam Milkman
Executive Vice President, Senior Consultant
Sam joined the Coleman Insights team in September 2009 after the acquisition of his firm, mediaEKG®. He initially served as president of the company’s Music Forecasting division and then was named as a vice president working with Coleman Insights’ radio clients in 2015. Prior to starting mediaEKG, Sam held broadcast programming and operational positions, including Operations Director of WXRK-FM/New York, Research Director of WHTZ-FM/New York and Program Director of WMMR-FM/Philadelphia.
He began his career as a litigation, intellectual property and entertainment attorney at the Philadelphia law firm of Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll. Sam holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a Juris Doctorate from Cornell Law School.
Scott Musgrave
Senior Vice President/Syndicated Solutions
Scott joined Coleman Insights in 2022 after leading the U.S. Radio division at Luminate. Before managing sales of BDSradio for Luminate for five years, Musgrave spent 17 years at Nielsen Audio (formerly Arbitron), including nine years as VP Sales/SVP General Manager of its radio station business. He also has held senior management and consultant roles at a wide array of startup and established media companies, including Media Monitors, Marketron, Quu Interactive, MediaDash.com, TuneGenie, Triton Digital, and Amplifi Media.
Jay Nachlis
Vice President/Consultant & Marketing Director
Jay Nachlis joined Coleman Insights in 2017 after more than two decades of experience in the radio industry as a program director and on-air talent at stations covering a wide variety of formats in the United States. He has launched multiple successful brands, coached some of entertainment’s brightest talents, and authored a memoir of life in radio.
Today, Jay leads podcast research initiatives at Coleman, developing custom solutions for clients to grow strong brands and develop great content by deeply understanding the perceptions and desires of their target audiences. He co-authored “The New Rules Of Podcasting On YouTube,” a landmark 2023 study focused exclusively on video podcasting.
Rebecca Paschall
Project Coordinator/Integr8 Research
Rebecca joined the Integr8 Research team as a Project Coordinator in 2022. She prepares surveys, performs data validation, and oversees quality control for the company’s projects. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a degree in History.
Becky Pohotsky
Vice President, Operations/Integr8 Research
Becky joined Coleman Insights in 2010, where she helped launch Integr8 New Music Research. Before moving into the research realm, Becky worked in the radio industry with her most recent role as Program Director for the Alternative station WURH in Hartford, Connecticut. Previous stops included WBRU Providence, WMRQ Hartford, WLZX Springfield, Massachusetts, and WGIR-FM Manchester, New Hampshire. At Integr8 Research, she combines her experience with music and radio with her love of data and figuring out the “why” behind it. Becky has a degree in Public Policy from Brown University.
Sahra Rahili
Project Coordinator/Integr8 Research
Sahra is a project coordinator for Integr8 Research, starting with the firm in June 2018. Sahra graduated from East Carolina University where she received a Bachelor of Science in Geology. In her spare time, she likes reading, gardening, spending time with her family, and when possible, traveling to Algeria.
Jason Sharp
Senior Project Coordinator/Integr8 Research
Jason joined Integr8 Research around 2018 after working as a Project Assistant at Coleman Insights. He focuses on handling metadata and writing macros, so others can spend their time analyzing data. He graduated from NCSU in 2014 with a degree in History and minors in Arts Entrepreneurship and English. He enjoys going to bookstores, concerts, and movies.
Kelly Tippins
Bookkeeper
Kelly joined Coleman as the firm's bookkeeper in 2023, handling day-to-day finances for the company. She has over 25 years of bookkeeping experience. She attended East Carolina University, from which she holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and a minor in Art. Kelly is a native of the Triangle area and is raising her 4 children with her husband Scott.
John Mönninghoff
President, European Radio Division
John has been the President of our European radio division since April 1992. Prior to bringing Coleman Insights into the European radio market, John was involved in the pioneering stages of commercial radio in Germany, beginning at Ufa Film-und Fernseh-GmbH in Hamburg. While with Ufa, John advanced to become general manager of Radio in Berlin. John then joined the CLT (Companie Luxembourgoise de Télédiffusion) as a general manager of RTL Radio Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart.
He built RTL from the ground up and set up Germany’s first radio network. John has his Diplom-Kaufmann degree (German MBA) from the University of Hamburg.
