Her job responsibilities: Resident “Sherpa” for our team of navigators.

Her background: Armed with a PhD in psychometrics, Ahnal’s career path began at the University of Illinois Medical Center where she was a professor teaching research methodology and statistics. Her scientific interests provide a wonderful foundation and a propensity for strategic and creative analyses. Ahnal’s unique approach to problem solving is second-to-none in the industry, and can be attributed to that amazing right-brain/left-brain capacity. Ultimately she was drawn to the promotional side of the business.

Last book read?: How To Measure Anything by Douglas Hubbard

Lefty or righty?: I was born a lefty but was “made” a righty

Thin crust or deep dish pizza?: Either New York style thin crust pizza or Chicago deep dish—nothing in between

If you could speak any other another language fluently, what language would you want to add to your existing repertoire? (And why?) I currently speak a couple of Indian languages as well as English; I think I’d want to speak Spanish because it would be advantageous in many ways—from a business perspective to vacations