Jerome Sopocko studied mathematics and computer sciences in France (EISTI) and the United States (Florida Tech).
He founded Askia in 1994 and moved to England, for love, in 1995; just after Eurostar opened. While his business partner, Patrick George is in charge of managing and growing the business, Jerome’s remit in London was and continues to be R&D.
Askia creates powerful and scalable software for the Market Research industry going from the authoring of surveys to the analysis and including all forms of collection.
Ipsos took a majority stake in Askia in 2020 with the view to make it the leading software provider to the industry.