Robert Blizzard is the founder/CEO of UpONE Insights and one of the top Republican pollsters in the country. Blizzard’s political experience includes polling for presidential campaigns, major races for U.S. Senate and Governor across the country, party committees and Super PACs, dozens of Republicans in Congress, and state legislative caucuses across America.  

This past cycle, Blizzard polled on behalf of America PAC to help re-elect Donald Trump as President and to assist Republicans in capturing the U.S. Senate Majority.  Over the years, Blizzard also helped elect current U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (TN), Tom Cotton (AR), Chuck Grassley (IA), Roger Marshall (KS), Mitch McConnell (KY), and Joni Ernst (IA).

In 2024, Blizzard helped several GOP incumbents return to Congress, including Claudia Tenney (NY-24), Andy Barr (KY-6), and Thomas Massie (KY-4) – helping the GOP maintain the U.S. House Majority.  Blizzard also helped Kentucky Republicans maintain their overwhelming majority in the General Assembly.  In the past, Blizzard has also helped Republican state legislative caucuses in Alabama, Connecticut, Iowa, Michigan, New York, Ohio, and Oregon. 

In addition to his political expertise, Blizzard also regularly conducts corporate image, messaging, and crisis management research for national and state-based associations, public affairs groups, and Fortune 500 companies on topics related to criminal justice, consumer and customer strategy, education, energy, finance, health care, retail, and tech, among others.

A graduate of Clemson University, Blizzard lives in the Washington DC area with his wife and two sons.  Prior to founding UpONE Insights, Blizzard spent nearly two decades at Public Opinion Strategies, working his way from intern to co-owner of the firm and top political pollster.

Jamie Wadovick Gentle is Vice President at UpONE Insights. 

Before working at UpONE, Jamie spent almost five years at Public Opinion Strategies working on both political and public affairs research. At Public Opinion Strategies, Jamie managed the polling efforts for U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, U.S. Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, and Michigan House and Senate Republicans as well as several other GOP officeholders and SuperPAC groups.  Further, Jamie was also the lead project director on the COVID-19 research campaign in Ohio and advised business leaders, the Ohio Department of Health, and the DeWine-Husted Administration.

To date, working on both political and public affairs campaigns, Jamie has completed over 350 projects, from in-person focus groups to online ad testing, and over 150 public affairs-oriented projects.  Some of the projects Jamie leads are on behalf of clients such as Amazon, Google, the Walton Family Foundation, Arnold Ventures, and political clients such as U.S. Congressman Andy Barr, U.S. Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, Kentucky Senate Republicans, and other GOP officeholders and SuperPAC groups.

Jamie is a RIVA trained focus group moderator and has been at the forefront of new methods in qualitative research, leading the analysis of qualitative research projects across the country and especially among the key audiences of suburban voters and GOP primary voters.  

Prior to her work in political and public affairs polling, Jamie worked at The Advisory Board Company, a health care research company, which specialized in advising some of the largest hospital systems in the nation.  Jamie earned her BA in Biology from Rollins College, where she was a member of the women’s lacrosse team.  She currently lives in San Antonio, Texas with her husband Michael and their two children.

Jackson Ellis is an Associate at UpONE Insights. Prior to joining UpONE Insights, Jackson Ellis was with Public Opinion Strategies for over three years where he held positions ranging from Junior Research Analyst to Director of Special Projects.

While at UpONE Insights, Jackson has worked on projects for clients that include the Walton Family Foundation, Amazon, and Google. During the 2024 election, he conducted surveys in the swing state of Michigan on behalf of America PAC and the swing districts of Oregon CD-4, Michigan CD-8, and Connecticut CD-5 in addition to others. 

At Public Opinion Strategies, Jackson facilitated the completion of over 200 research projects covering both public affairs and political clients, including research on opinions on public education for TN SCORE and Ohio Excels, COVID-19 research for the Ohio Department of Health, annual research for the American Trucking Association, and political polling for GOP Senators and Congressmen, as well as the Kentucky House and Senate Republican campaign committees. Additionally, Jackson helped analyze a 23 weeklong online focus group of suburban swing voters leading up to the 2020 election on behalf of N2 America. 

Jackson attended Washington and Lee University where he double majored in German and Global Politics. During college, Jackson interned with UniExperts GmbH, a consulting firm in Cologne, Germany with support from the German-American Chamber of Commerce. After graduation, Jackson earned a Fulbright Award and taught English in the town of Oschatz, Germany. 

Jackson is originally from Richmond, Virginia and now resides in Washington D.C. He is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Global Communications with a concentration in U.S. Foreign Policy from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.