LARi Insight
Abbreviated from Logos Applied Research Inc., you can just call us LARi (pronounced like the name, “Larry”). Incorporated in March, 2021, we bring a new approach to one of Canada’s oldest industries: financial services.
Exclusively focused on the financial services industry in Canada, we target the most meaningful moments in the client journey. We harvest insights from our financial services market research panel, and generate multi-format content assets that tell a provocative story. To learn more, explore our services.
Meet the Team
Dan Skeen, Founder & CEO
Dan is the founder and CEO of LARi Insight, Inc. His experience includes several years as an executive in Canada’s financial services industry, driving digital transformation and product innovation across the web, mobile and social media. He has led teams devoted to a wide range of disciplines including product development, market insight, user experience, analytics, social media, and content marketing.
Dan’s background also includes digital roles for an integrated marketing agency and a web-based start-up, in locations that include Toronto, San Francisco and Brisbane, Australia. His views on digital topics have appeared in The Globe & Mail, Wired, MarketingProfs and many other publications.
Kim Graham
Graphic Designer
A graphic designer with more than two decades of experience, Kim specializes in typography, client service, communications, logos, branding, and web strategies.
Bing Nguyen
Graphic Designer
Based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Bing is a talented freelance graphic designer. You can view her work for LARi through content items like our inflation eBook.
Priyal Trividi
Data Analyst
Priyal is a Toronto-based Insights, Intelligence and Analytics professional. Her work experience includes market research for Retail, CPG and Consumer Behaviour clients.
Cindy Li
Contributor
Cindy loves all aspects of investing, and helps build out our content pillar with investment tips for Canadians.
Sandip Jakur
Contributor
Our resident expert on finance, banking, and payments, Sandip has a deep background in financial services.
Allan Hart
Analyst
Allan collects and analyzes most of the data that LARi features in our exclusive content. He has a deep background in the financial services industry.
Pamela Morgan
Contributor
A freelance writer with credits in over 100 publications, Pamela focuses on health and group benefits.
Jean-Pierre Bazinet
Developer
Based in Ottawa, JP is our go-to expert for both front-end and back-end development. A seasoned tech veteran, he keeps LARi.ca humming.
Russell Davis
Contributor
Author of a highly popular personal finance blog and newsletter, Russell contributes content on financial planning and budgeting.
Special Advisors
David Han
Over 18 years, David honed his craft while working in New York City, Düsseldorf, and Toronto, gaining extensive experience at top global agencies like Critical Mass, Sapient, and GALE Partners. David has partnered with brands like Foxwoods Resort, BMW USA, Allstate, and The Toronto Star to frame a more culturally relevant, data-driven, and audience-first brand experience through content and digital utility. In his current role as Director of Experience Design at Nurun Toronto, David heads up a cross-functional team of design thinkers that work at the intersection of data, creativity, and technology to build memorable experiences for emotional, complicated, and irrational humans — sometimes known as prospects, customers, and users.
Between agency tenure, David led the User Experience practice at Sun Life Canada in growing share-of-wallet of new and existing customers while driving the global web accessibility adoption through change management. His areas of expertise include: conducting primary research to uncover actionable audience insights, designing scalable data-driven content and commerce destinations, and delivering measured cross-channel digital experiences.
Glen Drummond
Glen is a marketing and innovation strategist and educator. For many years he was the Chief Innovation Officer of B2B marketing agency, Quarry. He is co-founder of Carbon Design LLP – a “Talent Platform” agency pioneering applications of personality-science to improve marketing performance. Most recently, he is the founder of Post-Carbon Pathfinders – a strategy practice specialized for the innovators who are building a more sustainable world.