Meet Picnic

We’re a boutique research consultancy 

When we founded Picnic in 2019, we saw a need for flexible consulting services that extend your team and help you scale as needed.  

When you choose Picnic, you’re choosing to work with experts who are fully accountable principals (agency owners).  Yes, we are a small agency, which ultimately means we are focused on a smaller set of clients and projects.  We operate with care and agility, and as a team all roles are hands-on right through the research process. 

We stay on top of the latest research technology and leverage the most appropriate tools to improve processes and generate powerful insights. Ask us about our favourite tech!

The Team

Work with expert consultants across all aspects of your project

Raymond Lo

CO-FOUNDER & Managing partner

Curious, Driven, Detailed

“I believe every important decision, whether in business or our private lives, should be data-led. Those who don’t use it are flying blind”

• Board Member, The Research Society

• Quantitative expert translating data into tangible business recommendations

• Cross-Asia-Pacific experience with some of the worlds biggest brands

• Former corporate insights leader

• ESOMAR and Greenbook speaker-author-podcaster

Matt Howley

CO-FOUNDER & managing partner

Resourceful, Simplifier, Connector

“Growing up, I wanted to be either a scientist or a rock-star. A role in research lets me make discoveries and share them with wide audiences”

• Creates customer and client-friendly research approaches with an extensive range of techniques and technology

• Significant corporate experience leading product, pricing and CX insights to grow market share

• Former NPS & CX research program leader (Telstra)

• Former Insights team leader (Telstra)

• Former Marketing Manager (Mercedes-Benz Australia)

• Former Professional Services team leader (Vision Critical)

Sector and data fluent

We bring first-hand experience and understanding of Retail, Telecommunications, Technology & Media, Health, Gaming, Automotive, Banking and Insurance, IT Services, Utilities, B2B. 

We invest the time to deeply understand your organisation, competitors and customers - we have a voracious appetite for information and data.

Our solutions generally involve research of some kind but we draw on our vast experience with broader data and information sources - be it digital, social, financial data, international case studies or technical reports.