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2008 Speakers

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  • Melissa Abbott

    Senior Trendspotter and Analyst

    The Hartman Group, Inc.

  • Alexis Abramson

    Vice President of Research, “Lifestyle Gerontologist”

    Retirement Living TV

  • Gretchen Addi

    Location Lead

    IDEO

  • Jess Aguirre

    Senior Vice President, Research

    Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel

  • Majd Alwan

    Director

    Center for Aging Services Technologies

  • June Amori

    Vice President, Strategy and Marketing Communications

    Prudential Annuities

  • Corinne Asturias

    Boomers Consumer Strategist

    Iconoculture

  • Bill Bass

    Co-Founder and CEO

    Fair Indigo

  • Graceann Bennett

    Managing Partner, Director of Strategic Planning

    Ogilvy Chicago

  • Andrew Bienkowski

    Vice-President of Global Brands

    Kimberly-Clark

  • Lori Bitter

    President

    JWT Boom

  • Jonathan Boehman

    Creative Director & Partner

    Immersion Active

  • Jim Bremer

    Vice President, Futures Team

    Hasbro Games

  • Geoff Brooks

    National Director of Premier & Retirement Strategy, Senior Vice President

    HSBC Bank USA

  • Linda Caliri

    Vice President, Marketing

    AARP Financial

  • Mike Caprio

    VP of Sales, New Business Development

    Visible World

  • Chiqui Cartagena

    Managing Director, Integrated Marketing

    Meredith Hispanic Ventures

  • Terry Clark

    Chief Marketing Officer – Enterprise Services for Ovations

    UnitedHealth Group

  • Kit Cody

    General Manager Web Strategy

    AARP Services Inc.

  • Andy Cohen

    Co-Founder and CEO

    Caring.com

  • Arthur Cresce

    Housing and Household Economic and Statistics Division

    Census Bureau

  • Kierstin DeWest

    CEO, Co-Founder

    Ci

  • Mark Dolliver

    Editor at Large

    Ad Week

  • Matthew J. Doyle

    Director and Senior Researcher, Research & Development, Health Care Products – Worldwide

    The Procter & Gamble Company

  • Peter Drake

    Vice-President, Retirement & Economic Research

    Fidelity Investments Canada

  • Richard Dugas

    CEO

    Pulte Homes, Inc.

  • John Forsyth

    Partner

    McKinsey & Company

  • Nan-Kirsten Forte

    Executive Vice President, Consumer Services

    Web MD

  • Jeffrey Glueck

    Chief Marketing Officer

    Travelocity

  • Kelly Greene

    Staff Reporter

    The Wall Street Journal

  • Arlene Harris

    Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Strategy Officer

    GreatCall

  • Michael J. Hewitt

    Exercise Physiologist

    Canyon Ranch

  • Nigel Hollis

    Chief Global Analyst

    Millward Brown

Arthur Cresce photo

Arthur Cresce

Housing and Household Economic and Statistics Division

Census Bureau

Dr. Arthur Cresce  has had a lifelong devotion to providing high-quality information to the data-user public. He began his professional career at the Census Bureau in 1973 where he worked on the development of data for the Hispanic population.  At the time, this was one of the top priorities of the Census Bureau, especially given keen Congressional interest in the topic.  For 26 years he played an important role in the development, testing, and evaluation of questions used in current surveys and in three decennial censuses.  He gained particularly strong expertise in devising strategies for editing data and imputing for missing values.  From 1992 to 1998,
Dr. Cresce worked in the Decennial Management Division, participating in the planning for Census 2000.  During this time, he served as project manager for the Continuous Measurement Survey, which has now developed into the American Community Survey.  He also served as project manager for a key study to create a pay rate system that would ensure employment of sufficient human resources to complete critical field work under tight time constraints.  He received a promotion to Assistant Division Chief for Housing Characteristics in the Housing and Household Economics Statistics Division in April 2005.   

His formal education includes a batchelor’s degree in international affairs from the George Washington University with a strong background in economics. He received a master’s degree in demography from Georgetown University, where he wrote his master’s thesis on migration as a response to differential economic development among regions of the United States.  Finally, he received a Ph.D. in policy sciences from the University of Maryland at Baltimore, which allowed him to combine the disciplines of demography and economics in assessing the impact of public policy on the population.  Of note, his dissertation dealt with the impact of receipt of unemployment insurance on mobility of the unemployed.  

Dr. Cresce looks forward to meeting and working with users of housing data to understand their data needs and provide the data that will meet those needs.