Laguna Research Partners is a research and consulting firm based in southern California in the United States of America. Since our founding in 1998, we have provided our clients with the insights necessary to achieve consistently superior investment and operating performance.

Our firm’s core geographic markets are Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States, and our client base includes public and private companies of all sizes, professional money mangers, investment bankers, venture capitalists, governments and universities.

● Investment Research – Laguna Research Partners prepares research, analysis, assumptions and projections regarding individual products, product lines, companies, industries, markets, countries and regions.

● Market Research (Macro Level) – At the macro level, our firm provides research and analysis regarding market and niche sizing, unit growth trends, product pricing, new product activity, cost trends, raw material availability, patent activity, joint venture activity, merger activity, financing activity, strategic partner search, currency mobility and local culture. We also conduct new customer, client, facility and supplier searches and competitor analysis.

● Market Research (Micro Level) – At the micro level, our firm conducts focus groups and questionnaire-based surveys. We also conduct transaction analysis in which we identify and analyze the key factors driving consumer, company and government purchase decisions.

● Consulting – Our firm’s consulting practice focuses on four key areas. We assist professional investment organizations in the development and on-going management of research product and research culture. For investment bankers and their clients, we provide "third-party" due diligence studies and business model "analysis and repair" services. We provide individual companies with complete support for entering new geographic markets, particularly in Asia. We also provide companies with investor relations and outreach advisory services.

Please contact Laguna Research Partners by telephone at '1-949-651-9053 or by e-mail. We are based in the Pacific Time Zone where local time is GMT –8, and this time zone does observe Daylight Savings Time.

Kevin B. Skislock is Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Laguna Research Partners. Mr. Skislock has 34 years of experience as a Wall Street stock analyst and corporate development consultant. Nearly half of his career has been spent analyzing stocks for leading buy-side money managers including Citigroup and Wellington Management Company. On the sell-side of Wall Street, he has analyzed stocks for the institutional and retail investment clients of firms including a "research boutique" subsidiary of UBS PaineWebber, Inc.

Having served as a Director of Investment Research and Investment Strategy Committee member on the buy-side of Wall Street and a Director of Investment Research and Commitment Committee member on the sell-side, Mr. Skislock's expertise in business model analysis is widely respected. He often takes an active role in the creation and development of new business enterprises, serving as Director or Advisory Board member for cutting-edge start-ups. He is Creator, Founder and CEO of Global Café Network, planned for launch in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in 2010.

Mr. Skislock has been recognized by Institutional Investor magazine in their "Best of the Buy-Side" rating of Wall Street’s top buy-side analysts. Since the inception of LRP in 1998, he has appeared on NBC Nightly News, CNBC, CNNfn, The Wall Street Journal Report, and Hong Kong Cable Television. He has also appeared in a wide variety of print media sources including Barron's, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Business Journal, The Business Times of Singapore, the Taipei Times, and Daily Variety, as well as online at Bloomberg.com, CBS Marketwatch, MSNBC.com, and CNN.com.

Born on Manhattan Island, New York City, Mr. Skislock earned a BS degree in Economics from Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania and an MBA degree from The University of Chicago. In addition to his native English, Mr. Skislock has a working knowledge of Arabic, French, Japanese, and Vietnamese. He remains an active competitor in senior (50-and-over) track and field.