The Hive

Our key personnel…

Paul Kavanagh and Rune Wennesland set up Beehive Research in October 2007 to provide quality, cost effective market research and customer engagement solutions. They have both worked for blue chip clients across many sectors including Automotive, Financial Services, FMCG, Public sector, Leisure, Media and Technology industries.

Before founding Beehive Research, Paul and Rune crossed paths as client and supplier. Paul was Head of Experian’s online market research service, Canvasse Opinion and Rune was the Senior Solutions Consultant at Confirmit, the online software that was used to deliver a variety of consumer and business-to-business online and telephone research projects and the Canvasse Opinion consumer panel. Their complimentary skills and experience of working together made forming Beehive a natural progression.

Paul Kavanagh (BSc) - Director

Prior to founding Beehive Research in 2007, Paul spent 10 years at Experian, where he held various client facing and senior management roles including the Survey Manager for the Data Acquisition team, which gathered in excess of 1.0m phone, postal and online questionnaires per year.

In 2002, he launched and ran Experian’s market research service, Canvasse Opinion; a full service agency with its own online consumer research panel. Whilst projects were from a wide range of industry sectors they included projects such as BBC Top Gear’s car satisfaction survey and Standard Life’s Quarterly Savings and Investment Index.

Paul Graduated from London University in 1984 with an honours degree in Marine Biology.

Interesting fact: Paul spent much of his earlier life as a Premier Division White Water slalom canoeist!

Rune Wennesland - Head of Operations

Rune has exceptional knowledge and experience of delivering online research and EFM projects. He is a really creative problem solver, with excellent client relationship skills. Prior to joining Beehive Research as Head of Operations, Rune worked at Confirmit (online research software) for seven years, three of them based in London. He ended his Confirmit employment as a Senior Solutions Consultant, working on a vast range of global online research projects for both Corporate clients and Research agencies.

Interesting fact: Rune likes to lift heavy objects and can flip an 800lb (365kg) tractor tyre.

Tom Raybould – Panel and web specialist

Tom has an excellent knowledge of delivering online research projects, web design and panel management. Formerly at Experian’s Canvasse Opinion, Tom has extensive knowledge designing the web pages for online panels, integrating these into online research software and managing panels and related research projects.

Interesting fact: Tom has a black belt in Taekwondo and won gold at the GTI British championships in 2003.