Our Team

Michael Meyers

Partner & President

As president, Michael helps guide the company and maintains a broad range of political, corporate, and association clients. Michael’s past political clients involve several presidential campaigns including, President Bush’s reelection campaign, Mitt Romney’s campaigns in 2008 and 2012, and Senator McCain in 2008. He has also worked for senators, gubernatorial, and congressional campaigns across the country. Numerous ballot campaigns across a spectrum of issues have also benefited from his insights and services. While at TargetPoint Consulting, Michael has worked with a number of corporate and association clients including Wal-Mart, AT&T, the Retail Industry Leaders Association, and Magnolia Pictures/2929 Entertainment and a number of energy related clients such as DTE/Detroit Edison, the Southern Company, and the American Petroleum Institute. Michael’s clients also include a diverse set of charitable and philanthropic organizations including Save the Children and Voices for National Service. He also worked with CBS News as part of their Election Night decision team in 2016.

Alicia Downs

Partner

As a principal at TargetPoint, Downs has worked with political and corporate clients across the country on strategic voter contact efforts that employ analytics to effectively and efficiently deploy their resources. Downs’ clients include over one hundred statewide and congressional races, five presidential campaigns, right to work, 2nd amendment, climate change and marriage equality efforts.

Brent Seaborn

Partner

While at TargetPoint, Brent has worked on several presidential campaigns including, most recently, Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign. Brent has also worked on MicroTargeting and direct contact efforts for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, National Republican Committee, Senator John Thune, and several key Texas congressional races.

Brian Kind

National Director of Geo-Strategic Analytics

Brian Kind is Target Point’s National Director of Geo-Strategic Analytics and oversees the operations of its Office of National Geo-Strategic Analytics in Madison, Wisconsin.  Brian is a long time Wisconsin data strategist having served with the Republican Party of Wisconsin and the campaigns of Governor Scott Walker and U.S. Senator Ron Johnson.  In addition he has provided support for a variety of state and local races.

Sam Zaleski

Research Staff Director

As a Research Staff Director at TargetPoint, Sam manages research and MicroTargeting strategy for several of TargetPoint’s political, association, and non-profit clients. She specializes in targeted message strategies aimed at persuading conservative audiences on progressive and center-right issues and has done work for advocacy clients including Save the Children Action Network, Voices for National Service, American Unity Fund and Independent Sector.

Erin Abell

Director of Operations

As Director of Operations at TargetPoint, Erin oversees the day to day of the organization. She works with the entire team to ensure individual success as well as that of every project. Erin brings more than a decade of experience in politics, political data and management to her role at TargetPoint.

David Fetters

Senior Research and Data Analyst

As a Senior Research and Data Analyst at TargetPoint, David leverages statistical and analytical tools to develop actionable information for political and corporate clients.  He uses his experience working with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to help spot relationships and trends between data and the local communities that the data represents.

Meaghan McKenna

Project Director

Meaghan interned with TargetPoint while finishing her degree and was brought on in spring of 2016 as a Data Analyst. She spends her time coordinating between our internal teams to provide critical database and analytical support with our internal and client deliverables. She aids the team in the MicroTargeting and Voter Scoring process, helps analyze our public opinion and MicroTargeting results, and works to maintain and support our autodial polling and processes.

McKenna Erickson

Research Project Director

As a Research Project Director at TargetPoint, Mckenna uses data analytics with our survey research projects.  She also works to create data visualizations to display our research findings.

Sonja Litster

Executive Assistant

As the Executive Assistant to Michael Meyers, Sonja is responsible for coordinating internal meeting planning, overseeing invoice organization, and management of both the President’s schedule and other needs from TargetPoint partners.

Joshua Coulter

Project Manager

Joshua Coulter is a returning member of the TargetPoint team, having interned in the Fall of 2015. Now with several years’ experience in the industry including time working with WPAi, Josh serves as a Project Manager overseeing client accounts – ensuring quality in our client deliverables and coordinating with staff to meet internal timelines.

Colin Pitts

Senior Data Analyst

As a Senior Data Analyst at TargetPoint, Colin consolidates data points into finished products for clients.  He uses presentation methods and hands on techniques to provide clients the information they need, quickly and efficiently.

Joshua Cooper

Senior Research Analyst

As a Senior Research Analyst at TargetPoint, Josh specializes in data analytics and Microtargeting. Josh is responsible for building out many of TargetPoint’s key data processes including cleaning and weighting survey data, developing statistical models, developing analytic processes, creating voter universes, producing actionable insights, and incorporating insights into client reports and data visualizations.

Nick Bolger

Senior Research Analyst

Nick spent the last year as a fellow, placed with TargetPoint to aid our team with analytics and provide political insight. As a Senior Research Analyst, he now helps coordinate projects from survey writing to deliverables and manages analytics for a variety of campaign clients.

Davis Trice

Research Analyst

As a Research Analyst, Davis is responsible for working with many of our policy, association and corporate clients. He coordinates project logistics including setting up our fieldwork and programming and pulling together actionable presentations for our clients that outline our survey research insights.

Gabriela Swain

Research Analyst

Gabriela joined the TargetPoint team as a Research Analyst and uses her passion for creative problem solving and background in legislative analysis to bring a new perspective to data analytics. Gabriela designs and builds comprehensive reports that give clients the most granular knowledge of their electorate.

Nate Jessee

Data Analyst

Nate discovered a passion for data analytics through his involvement in Utah politics. His responsibilities at TargetPoint include modeling and analysis for MicroTargeting projects, creating survey samples, and handling database requests.

Blake Ellis

Research Analyst

As a Research Analyst at TargetPoint, Blake works to bring accuracy, reliability, and consistency to our MicroTargeting and Polling projects. He also enjoys keeping the team up to date on breaking news and current events. Blake joined the TargetPoint team after spending time in 2017 as an intern.

Michael Lundgren

Data Analyst

As a Data Analyst at TargetPoint, Michael focuses on the field logistics of our survey research and MicroTargeting process and maintaining quality in our survey programming.

Taylor Danos

Research Analyst

As a Research Analyst, Taylor is engaged with our MicroTargeting work and reporting. Prior to joining TargetPoint, Taylor worked on campaigns in Louisiana, was a Legislative Aide for State Senator Sharon Hewitt, and interned on Capitol Hill.

Andrew Meeks

Data Analyst

Andrew recently joined the TargetPoint team as a Data Analyst. He uses his experience in data visualization and interpretation to help the team produce easy-to-understand results and reporting, and also aids with voter modeling and our research fielding logistics.

Matt Monday

Research Analyst

Matt recently joined the team at TargetPoint and has used his experience in data visualization and analysis to aid in the development of multiple products for clients. He also has experience working for multiple campaigns across the state of Georgia and hopes to build on his current skills in political data analysis to help TargetPoint clients in the corporate world as well.

Alexander P. Gage

Co-Founder

Alex Gage helped found TargetPoint in 2003 and continues to advise TargetPoint on how best to maximize opportunities in a way that inspires creativity and forward thinking. He promotes and encourages innovation and a culture that reflects TPC’s values of change and innovation.  Gage also looks to identify potential strategic business partnerships that will help expand TargetPoint’s products and services while ensuring that TargetPoint is ahead of the technology curve.