Meeting Street’s founder, Rob Autry, is one of the leading pollsters and research strategists in the United States and around the world. Rob has conducted more than 7,500 surveys and 500 focus groups during his 25-year public opinion career. Rob has worked with many of the world’s leading companies and public policy organizations in the areas of image and brand reputation, issue advocacy, message development, stakeholder relations, and crisis communication. His clients include the likes of Facebook, Google, CNN, Ritz-Carlton, Warner Media, the Atlantic Council, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the U.S. Olympic Committee, to name a few.

Rob’s political clients include two U.S. Senators and eighteen Members of Congress, as well as numerous other statewide and state legislative elected officials. Rob has also polled for four Presidents and been a part of six presidential campaigns. Before Rob got the “polling bug,” he managed political campaigns across the United States. Rob received the International Campaign of the Year award winner in 2015 by Campaigns & Elections for his role in the Juan Carlos Varela Campaign (Panama Presidential Campaign, May 2014). More recently, Rob was named “Pollster of the Year” by American Association of Political Consultants in 2020.