Angus Reid

Angus is the Chairman of Vision Critical and the company’s public affairs division, Angus Reid Public Opinion. In the research business for 40 years, Angus has been the recipient of a Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship, the Entrepreneur of the Year award, and was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Legends.
 
From 1979 to 2001, he was founder and CEO of Angus Reid Group, a market research supplier that grew into the largest research firm in Canada, with revenues of $60 million. It was sold to Ipsos SA in 2000.
 
In 2004, Angus joined Andrew’s revolutionizing and fast-growing online panel company. Shortly after, Angus created Angus Reid Strategies under the Vision Critical umbrella to leverage their technologies and conduct effective online market research and public opinion polling.
 
Angus has written numerous columns on economic, social and political issues as well as the best-selling “Shakedown: How the New Economy is Changing our Lives” (1996). He has a BA and an MA in Sociology from the University of Manitoba, and in 1974 he received a PhD in Sociology from Carleton University in Ottawa.