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Mark E. Thompson
Mark Thompson is president of Forefront Economics Inc. An agricultural and natural resource economist by training, Mark has 20 years of experience with applied econometric and statistical analysis. Mark founded Forefront Economics in 1993 with the objective of providing professional consulting services in the area of advanced quantitative analysis and data management. Since founding Forefront Economics, Mark has been principle project leader on a variety of client projects including market simulation and forecasting, customer usage modeling for new product sales forecasting, energy program impact evaluation, telecommunications load analysis and forecasting, customer segmentation, and customer scoring for database marketing.
Prior to founding Forefront Economics, Mark worked in the Rates and Marketing departments at Portland General Electric where his responsibilities included cost effectiveness analysis, load analysis and forecasting, market research, and program evaluation. Before joining PGE, Mark was Manager of Economic Forecasting at Union Pacific Railroad, where he was responsible for tracking and forecasting daily and monthly rail traffic in several products. Prior to joining PGE, Mark conducted economic analysis and developed econometric systems of equations for simulating fisheries markets at Louisiana State University.
He has a Masters of Science degree in Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics with a minor in Statistics from Oregon State University and BS in Agricultural Economics from Oklahoma State University. Mark's extensive experience with SAS® software helped to earn Forefront Economics Inc. the designation of SAS Alliance Silver Partner by the SAS Institute. Mark has been using SAS® software since 1977 and continues to receive up-to-date training from the SAS Institute. Recently he has been distinguished by the SAS Institute as a SAS Certified Professional in Version 8 of SAS software.
Mark Thompson presented a paper entitled "The Science and Art of Market Segmentation Using PROC FASTCLUS" at the 24th Annual SAS User's Group International at Miami Beach in 1999. He was awarded "Best Contributed Paper" in the Statistics, Data Analysis and Modeling category.
President
3800 SW Cedar Hills Blvd.
Suite 241
Beaverton, OR 97005
503-626-1657 x11 (phone)
503-626-6320 (fax)
mark@forecon.com
Cyndi V. Thompson
Cyndi is an economist by training, having received her undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University and her graduate degree from Oregon State University in Agricultural Economics. She has experience in applied economic research and database development and management. She has conducted studies requiring the systematic compilation, organization, analysis, and reporting of economic systems. Using SAS® software, Cyndi works extensively with data management, analysis and reporting. Cyndi began using SAS® software in 1981 while working on her master's degree.
Cyndi has been working for Forefront Economics since its inception in 1993. She wears many hats at Forefront; in addition to her Analyst work, she is on the Board of Directors with Mark. She has extensive knowledge of various spreadsheet, word processing, database, publishing, presentation and financial software. For the past 12 years, Cyndi has also enjoyed introducing economic concepts to college students in her introductory economics classes.
Vice President/Senior Economic Analyst
3800 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Suite 241
Beaverton, OR 97005
503-626-1657 x10 (phone)
503-626-6320 (fax)
cyndi@forecon.com
Eric Thompson
Eric was too lazy to write a bio for himself, but we'll keep bugging him until he writes one.
Jr. System Administrator
3800 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Suite 241
Beaverton, OR 97005
503-626-1657 x13 (phone)
503-626-6320 (fax)
eric@forecon.com
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