Vice Presidents
Chintan Turakhia, M.B.A., Senior Vice President,
Public Policy, Media and Financial Services Research
Chintan Turakhia, a Senior Vice President for Abt SRBI, has extensive experience in quantitative, qualitative research and data base management.

Mr. Turakhia has been conducting research in Political, Health Care, Public Policy, and Financial areas for over ten years. His projects typically involve complex research design, extensive data-collection protocols, intense data base management and analytics.

Mr. Turakhia has directed several tracking studies among parents and adolescents involving academic and sensitive healthcare issues such as smoking, alcohol use, and sexually transmitted diseases for academic clients such as Columbia University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, New York University and The City University of New York. Mr. Turakhia also conducts Health Care and Political research for clients such as Philadelphia Health Management Corporation (PHMC), The Eagleton Institute of Politics, The Pew Research Center for the People and Press and The Veterans Administration. Mr. Turakhia recently completed one of the largest political research projects ever conducted for University of Pennsylvania. This project involved completing over 100,000 telephone interviews at 30 minutes each.

He has also directed several customer satisfaction and product positioning projects in the Financial Services area. Key clients in this area include Bank of America, Prudential Investments and Philadelphia Stock Exchange.

In Media research area, Mr. Turakhia has conducted readership studies for magazines such as USA Weekend (a Gannett company). These projects typically involve target market analysis, market segmentation and gauging reader satisfaction.

His credentials include an M.B.A. concentrated in Marketing Research from Bernard M. Baruch College (CUNY), New York.

Chintan Turakhia, Senior Vice President
Abt SRBI
275 Seventh Avenue, Suite 2700
New York, NY 10001
Phone: (212) 779-7700
Fax: (212) 779-7785
info@srbi.com