Donald B. York
Senior Vice President
Don York has had overall management responsibility for the Radford Surveys unit of Aon since 1990. Don designed many of the Radford Surveys, including the Executive and the International Survey. Don also has more than 30 years of executive compensation consulting experience. His clients have included Applied Materials, Cadence Design Systems, Oracle, Read-Rite, Synopsys, and Western Digital.
Prior to joining Radford Associates in 1978, Don practiced law with the firm of Adams, Duque & Hazeltine.
Don graduated phi beta kappa, summa cum laude, from University of California, Los Angeles, and earned a juris doctorate degree from University of California, Los Angeles, Law School.
John Radford
Senior Vice President
John Radford co-founded Radford Associates in 1975 and led the firm to a premier market position as the top compensation survey provider for the technology industries. After nearly 20 years at Radford, he accepted the top compensation position at Cisco Systems where, over the next eight years, he implemented some of the most recognized and leading compensation and HR-related programs in the field.
John rejoined Radford Surveys + Consulting in 2002 as a senior vice president. His primary responsibilities include the overall management of the Global Life Sciences Survey and the management of the company's Strategic Steering Committees. He also is a regular speaker on a wide variety of compensation topics.
John earned a bachelor of science degree in economics from University of California, Santa Barbara, and a master of business administration from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Steve Radford
Senior Vice President
Steve Radford co-founded Radford Associates in 1975. He has overall responsibility for the marketing and sales function of Radford Surveys + Consulting, as well as the Radford Network®. He has led the development and design of automated survey, compensation and benefits applications, using the most current technology to provide leading-edge services to clients. In 1995, under his direction, the Radford Network was introduced as the first Internet-based survey web site. With 7,500 registered users, the Network is now Radford's primary delivery mode for survey data, tools and resources.
Steve has more than 30 years of experience in compensation consulting and the design and implementation of compensation and benefits surveys.
Steve earned a bachelor of science degree in economics from University of California, Santa Barbara and a master of business administration from University of California, Los Angeles.
Tim Brown
Vice President
Tim Brown has more than 20 years of experience in market pricing, compensation analysis and program administration acquired through compensation roles with semiconductor, life sciences, and telecommunications firms. For a decade, Tim has overseen the Radford Executive and Benchmark Surveys and their companion, the Overall Practices Report. Under Tim's leadership, the surveys have grown to more than 1.5 million incumbents with expansion of equity data to include both options and full-value awards. He has focused on survey data integrity and bringing a value-added perspective to responsive customer service.
Tim earned a bachelor of science degree in finance from Santa Clara University and a master of business administration from Pepperdine University. In addition, Tim teaches a course on compensation and rewards as part of the undergraduate human resources degree curriculum at San Jose State University.
Edson Fong
Vice President
Edson W. Fong has more than 20 years of experience at Radford, during which he has managed both the operations and IT groups. Ed has played a key role in the migration from paper-based to web-based surveys. He is responsible for all survey input and output production and manages day-to-day programming.
Under his direction, Radford has implemented web-based client tools, contact management systems, online order processes, and programming of all electronic survey reports.
Ed earned a bachelor of science degree in industrial relations from San Francisco State University.
Nicole Milne Baer
Assistant Vice President
Nicole Milne Baer oversees marketing for all business lines at Radford, including setting marketing objectives and strategy, market positioning and messaging, branding activities, the Radford Network and Radford.com websites, and marketing database management. Her responsibilities also include new business development, market research, pricing, competitive analysis, marketing/corporate communications, event planning, and sales team support. Nicole has 10 years of experience in marketing for the high technology industries.
Before joining Radford, Nicole held a range of account management positions for a high technology public relations firm in Los Angeles. She started her career in high technology working in marketing at a hardware manufacturer in Silicon Valley.
Nicole earned a bachelor of arts degree in English with honors from University of California, Santa Barbara and a master of business administration degree from University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business.
Barbara Chevial
Assistant Vice President
Barbara Chevial manages the global sales team and telemarketing function for all Radford surveys. She has more than 25 years of experience in human resources, finance and contract administration in the high technology industry.
Barbara joined Radford in 1998 as a senior sales account manager. In that role, she was primarily responsible for strategic account management and direct survey sales. She spearheaded initial participation efforts for the launch of the Radford Canada Survey (now part of the Radford International Survey), the first of Radford's suite of international surveys. She was responsible for the business development, sales and account management to the Canadian high technology industry.
Barbara earned a bachelor of arts degree in management from Saint Mary's College of California.
Olivier Maudiere
Assistant Vice President
Olivier Maudiere manages the Radford International Survey. Olivier has more than 15 years of global business and human resources experience, including consulting positions with Bowker Consulting, Mercer, as well as corporate positions with Siebel Systems, Walt Disney Company, and Nordson Corporation. In his survey management role, Olivier's focus is on expanding survey participation, improving the surveys, and acting as the liaison between the advisory committees for non-US surveys and the global Radford surveys team.
Prior to joining Radford Surveys + Consulting, Olivier consulted multinational companies on the design and implementation of worldwide compensation and benefits strategies.
Fluent in French and German, Olivier has lived in France, Germany and Japan. He earned masters of business administration degrees from both Baldwin Wallace College in Ohio and Ecole Superieure de Commerce International in France.
Tina Murata
Assistant Vice President
Tina Murata manages the Radford Benefits and Sales Surveys. She has nearly 10 years of survey management experience for Radford, including managing the design, data collection, and analysis of data. Since managing the Sales Survey, Tina has focused her efforts on expanding survey participation and developing job matching programs to ensure data integrity.
Past projects include playing a part in the major redesign of Radford's salary survey computer system and processes.
Tina earned a bachelor of arts degree in behavioral science from San Jose State University.
Jeanette Velo
Assistant Vice President
Jeanette Velo has been with Radford for more than 25 years. She is currently responsible for managing the production of the Radford International survey. Her primary responsibilities include survey design, quality assurance, technical assistance, and final survey production for all surveys. She also provides support in numerous areas of the Radford Network.
Past projects include the major redesign of Radford's salary survey computer system and processes. Jeanette was one of the team leaders in the creation, structure, and development of the original Radford Biotechnology Survey (now the Global Life Sciences Survey) and performed similar duties for the Radford Benchmark and Executive Surveys.
Heidi Warrick
Assistant Vice President
Heidi Warrick manages the administration of the marketing and sales department. She has more than 25 years of human resources experience, including more than 15 years of Radford management experience. She joined Radford in 1978 as a manager for the Radford Benchmark Survey and compensation consultant on client job evaluation and salary structure projects.
In addition to managing the marketing and sales department, Heidi is responsible for the annual renewal program, survey input and invoice collections, order processing, customer service, the Radford Network access program, and client and marketing databases. Past responsibilities included managing the Benchmark Survey, compensation consulting, and survey sales.
Heidi earned a bachelor of science degree in human resources management from San Jose State University.
Gina Wellmaker
Assistant Vice President
Gina Wellmaker currently manages the newly-revamped Radford Global Life Sciences Survey (GLS), which she has helped grow to include more than 600 companies and 700 industry-specific jobs during the last ten years. In addition to preserving Radford's reputation as a leader in the life sciences industry, Gina's primary responsibilities include partnering with key global accounts to expand and continue to develop the GLS survey (formerly the Biotechnology Survey) and acting as liaison between global pharma and life sciences companies, and the Radford surveys team.
For nine years prior to joining Radford Surveys + Consulting, Gina specialized in job evaluation, salary plan implementation, and compensation analysis for life sciences companies utilizing market analysis and conducting custom surveys.
Gina attended California State University, Chico, studying business administration with a concentration in personnel and industrial relations.