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About Us
Polaris Intelligence is our innovative and easy to use online application designed to give you the market insights your team needs to answer your most important questions. Our online research solution connects your business with strategic consumer data, spatial intelligence, and analytical insights.
Our dynamic reporting tools let you dive deep, slice and dice market reports and consumer data to acquire insight, and turn those insights into action with a better understanding of your customers, market conditions, competitive activities, and promotional trends. From in-depth demographics and lifestyle reports to consumer behaviour and product usage data, Polaris empowers you to tap into the key insights and competitive intelligence that helps your business grow and prosper.
Our Team
Jannis Mei
CEO
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CEO
Jannis Mei
Jannis is the CEO at Polaris Intelligence. He has worked on a hundred-million-dollar business transformation and software project at Deloitte Consulting, in discretionary and quantitative investments at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan’s internal hedge fund group, and in quantitative investments at Neuberger Berman. Jannis holds a BASc with Honours in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto and is a CFA charterholder.
Katia Wan
Client Associate
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Client Associate
Katia Wan
Katia is a client associate at Polaris Intelligence. She has years of international client-facing experience. She holds a BComm with Honours in International Management from the University of Ottawa.
Sebastian Woo
Client Associate
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Client Associate
Sebastian Woo
Sebastian is a client associate at Polaris Intelligence. He has years of client-facing experience in technology and strategy consulting. He holds a BA with Honours in Business Technology Management from Wilfrid Laurier University.
Zhen Mei
President
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President
Dr. Zhen Mei
Dr. Zhen Mei is a leading expert in fusing data sources: location, demographics, spending, health, consumer lifestyle, product and media usage, attitude, and behavioural data. He has over 30 years of experience in applications of data mining to business and commerce. In 2001, Dr. Zhen Mei founded Manifold Data Mining. He has been leading a team of data scientists and software engineers and has served hundreds of clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to government agencies to not-for-profits to small businesses.
Joseph Zhao
Senior Full Stack Developer
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Senior Full Stack Developer
Joseph Zhao
Joseph specializes in developing web applications for GIS. He has over 25 years of experience of applying GIS to business, research, and software development. Using open source GIS systems such as OpenLayers and Leaflet and database management tools like MySQL and PostgreSQL on both Linux and Windows systems, Joseph has been implementing mapping, targeting, and back-end system administration for our online analytics platform: PolarisIntelligence.com. Joseph holds a BSc in Geography from Nanjing University and was a visiting scholar at Aachen University. Joseph has been actively engaged with academic research programs and functions as a research assistant at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.
Yuanyi Pan
Senior Scientist
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Senior Scientist
Yuanyi Pan
Yuanyi is a Senior Scientist at Polaris. He has 11 years of experience in the advertising technology industry. He has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals. He holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from York University.
Joshua Chai-Tang
Web Developer
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Web Developer
Joshua Chai-Tang
Joshua is a Web Developer at Polaris. He has 2 years experience as a teaching assistant for web development and computer science courses. He holds a BCmpH in Computer Science from Queen’s University.
Angelina Zhou
QA Developer Intern
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QA Developer Intern
Angelina Zhou
Angelina works on various initiatives including exploring new avenues for our web app, writing front-end and back-end software, and performing testing and validation of our software and web applications. Angelina is a student at the University of Waterloo.
Alexander Shen
Web Developer Intern
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Web Developer Intern
Alexander Shen
Alexander works on various initiatives including working on new features, improving usability, and performing testing and validation of our software and web applications. Alexander is a student at the University of Waterloo.
Mehrnoush Divsalar
Manager, Back-End
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Manager, Back-End
Mehrnoush Divsalar
Mehrnoush manages back-end development at Polaris. She designs database structures, optimizes data flows among different components, works on our API, coordinates some development and QA, and works on some security functions. Mehrnoush is skilled in all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and in various webpage development languages such as HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, XAML, jQuery, and AJAX. She holds an MSc in Information and Communication Technology from the Iran University of Science and Technology.
Industries We Serve
Agencies/Media
Consumer Packaged Goods
Education
Financial Services
Health Care
Insurance
Manufacturing
Municipalities
Not For Profit
Real Estate
Retail
Transportation
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