Advisory Board Member

Charles Colby

CHARLES COLBY

President
Rockbridge Associates, Inc.
Phone: (703) 757-5213
E-mail: CColby@RockResearch.com

Charles Colby is President of Rockbridge Associates, Inc., a Washington, DC area market research firm that deals with technology marketing issues for services firms. For over 20 years, he has consulted for premier companies such as Discovery Channel, Verizon, Versign, Marriott, MCI, Capital One, BP and the U.S. Postal Service. He is an expert in strategic planning, advanced research design and data analysis. He has contributed extensively to the body of knowledge on technology adoption, having written numerous articles and presented at conferences. Mr. Colby recently co-authored a book with A. Parasuraman entitled Techno-Ready Marketing: How and Why your Customers Adopt Technology. He is a senior fellow at the Center for E-Services at the University of Maryland.

Prior to founding Rockbridge in 1992, Mr. Colby held positions at Opinion Research Corporation, Citicorp and Westat. He obtained a MBA from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1980.