Vivek Bhaskaran is the founding member and Executive Chairman of Survey Analytics, one of the industry's leading providers of web-based research technologies. Vivek studied in India, Russia and then Utah, at Brigham Young University. He came to Seattle after losing a Bay Area consulting job in the dot-com crash after which he co-founded Survey Analytics in 2002. Vivek founded Survey Analytics with the goal of providing a comprehensive suite of survey-based research tools designed for end-user organizations of all sizes.
The company's flagship product for Online Surveys, offers a complete set of intuitive online tools for conducting market research and since its inception has collected more than forty million surveys on behalf of a growing roster of brand recognized clients that include Safeway, Microsoft, Google, US Bank, ING and US Airways. In 2008, Survey Analytics made Inc. magazine's list of the fastest-growing private companies, ranking 172nd overall and 25th among business-service providers. Puget Sound Business Journal recognized Survey Analytics as one of the 100 fastest-growing private companies in Washington State.