YouGovStone has developed Carole's highly successful networking business to create its own opinion former specialist panels to undertake tailor-made research. YouGovStone has expanded YouGov's existing ThinkTank of top level opinion formers so that it can now provide feedback on the most important issues facing the country.

Since its launch the company has added a number of blue-chip and high profile clients to its roster including KPMG, Goldman Sachs, Shelter, Edge, The Evening Standard, SABMiller and the US Embassy in London. Work for these companies has varied from qualitative focus-group style discussions through to live events and one-off research surveys, at the centre of which is our exclusive ThinkTank of ‘influentials’.

The ThinkTank is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds including politics, business, the media, academia, NGOs and the voluntary sector, health and beyond. Such a panel of people is unrivalled.

YouGovStone is supported by an Advisory Board

Dianne Thompson CBE

CBE, Chief Executive Camelot Group plc, operator of the UK National Lottery.

John Gordon

Chief Executive of global media intelligence company Xtreme Information and co-founder of debating forum Intelligence Squared.

Dr Liz Nelson

Founder and Chairman of international market research company Taylor Nelson plc, now Chairman of market research company Fly Research.

Mary Teresa ('MT') Rainey

Founder of Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe, a non executive director of WH Smith plc, and founder and Chair of horsesmouth, a social networking site for universal online 'mentoring'.