Based in New York, the company offers operations management, recruitment, fieldwork data collection and data processing.

Chief executive Egan (pictured) previously spent five years at Dynata as head of sales for its healthcare solutions business. Prior to that, he was president, North America, at Nuaxia, and he also spent nine years in various commercial roles at Medefield.

Egan said: “At Brightside, we provide our clients a mixed-mode approach leveraging both online and offline recruitment tactics to ensure we’re getting the highest quality respondents to address our clients’ research objectives.”