NELSON & SKIDMORE - Key Persons
Ashley Jones has been with the Nelson Recruiting family for 20+ years, playing different roles while gaining extensive knowledge of the market research industry. She now is a project manager, something she excels at because of all that experience, which includes leading our recruiter training program. Her greatest strengths are her dedication to her clients and the Nelson team and a positive team player attitude; she is always looking to learn and share her knowledge with others.
A Los Angeles native, Ashley has lived in many states from Hawaii to Arkansas with her husband and two very spirited sons. Together, they love to go on nature adventures, including hiking, fishing, boating, and camping in the mountains. When she is home, she enjoys tending to her vegetable garden, chickens, dogs, and other various creatures.
Elodie Barnes has an extensive background in marketing, sales, and media research. She is a graduate of California State University Northridge with a BA focused in electronic media management.
Elodie oversees ongoing market research, qualitative and quantitative data, and quality control; she plays a vital role as a liaison to our clients.
A Los Angeles native, Elodie is married and has three children whom she adores. She spends her free time with her family outdoors, camping and traveling.
Job Titles:
- Leader
- Director of B2C Division
As the leader of our project management department, Jessica Nelson plays an instrumental role at the firm. She meticulously fulfills an established and crucial managerial role-using organizational skills like nothing we've ever seen-and is also responsible for all our social media.
Jessica has 20+ years of experience in the market research field and an extensive professional and vocational history within the market research community. Notably, she's played a critical role in the implementation of the firm's foundation and sustained success.
Jessica is the proud mother of three sons, happily married, and has maintained a residence in Southern California for 40+ years. She enjoys gardening, fishing, and spending time with her family in the great outdoors.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Vice President
- Key Executive
For over two decades, Jon Skidmore has been a key executive in developing a variety of thriving businesses throughout the Los Angeles area. Through his professional insight and dedication, he has been instrumental in securing funding for a variety of start-up ventures.
Jonathan Skidmore has multiple years of experience consulting for various industries ranging from politics to technology to finance. His specialty is establishing, leveraging, and improving core systems to provide a superior customer experience. Jonathan is determined to utilize his technical and customer experience expertise to translate Nelson's consumer research recruiting specialty to also become an industry leading business-to-business market research recruiting service.
Starting from scratch in 2019, Jonathan took the helm of Nelson's data division with the goal to create a secure and centralized database and data collection system. Seeking to minimize the time and cost necessary to find market research recruits, he built a specialized team of experts to pursue this goal. Now, Nelson Recruiting has an extensive safeguarded database with half a million active users.
Jonathan happily lives in Scottsdale, Arizona where he enjoys going on hikes with his dog Carribou and reading both fiction and nonfiction. Jonathan holds a BA in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Job Titles:
- Director of Network Division
Melissa Webster has worked in the market research industry for many years. She gained extensive knowledge of the recruitment process, customer service relations, and data analysis as a recruiter and project manager-and is an excellent communicator skilled at time management with a team player mentality and strong work ethic. Her experience and skills are an asset to facilitate her director role, which involves fielding and managing quick turnaround projects and providing facility recruitment support.
Melissa has a Bachelor of Science in Education with an emphasis on Mathematics from Grand Canyon University. She is a military spouse of 18 years and a mother of two vibrant daughters. She enjoys travel, reading, and spending quality time with her family.
Natalie Rettberg joined the team in early 2016, bringing over 13 years of industry experience with her. She previously worked in project management in Chicago and as president of a top-rated marketing research facility in San Francisco. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Marketing from Arizona State University and a Master of Arts in International Relations from IBEI in Barcelona.
Natalie's greatest strengths are in customer service; she always strives to provide our clients with the best possible experience and truly enjoys making and nurturing relationships. Her expertise has grown the firm-while maintaining its family spirit-and she has implemented procedures and structure to streamline internal processes for greater efficiency.
In her free time, Natalie loves to travel, read, and go hiking.
Sarah Peralta switched gears in her career after COVID and went into market research as a recruiter. Previously, she worked in the field of ABA therapy for children on the spectrum and earned a BS in public health from Brigham Young University -Idaho. Now, she is excited to tackle the challenging adventure of being a project manager as a member of our team.
Born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, where she still lives, Sarah is a married mother of three - 21, 19 and 13 years old - and her family is her whole world. In her free time, she watches English Premier League soccer and is a lifelong Liverpool fan.
Steve Nelson has over 27 years of experience in market research. He started as a kid, passing out flyers for his mother, who launched the business in 1980. Over the years, he has personally recruited for every possible type of study and watched the industry change and bend with the times; he's seen it all! Steve holds a Bachelor of Science in Business and Marketing.
Steve has a unique understanding of the recruiting business. Learning how to deal with clients and respondents effectively over the phone at such a young age has contributed to his success, and his enthusiasm and pursuit for excellence reaches every corner of his business.
Steve's passion is baseball (watching and playing) and he is very competitive on and off the field. In his free time, he enjoys surfing, fishing, and spending time in the outdoors with his family of five.