Pat Pellegrini is leaving BBM Canada by early August to take on the role of SVP at international market and audience research company TNS Media Research in New York. His replacement at BBM has not yet been chosen. Prior to joining BBM as VP research in 2001, Pellegrini had been a senior researcher with MapInfo Canada. He returned to Canada in 1999 after three years as assistant professor at Ohio State University.
Pellegrini has received numerous research award, is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, and his papers are published regularly in international research journals. He teaches statistics for media studies at the University of Guelph-Humber as well as being a member of the advisory board for the Spatial Information Science program at McMaster University.