Jim Durkin - Office of Professional Practice - Purdue University

Durkin is co-founder of The Martec Group, a global market research-based consulting firm that includes a portfolio of custom intelligence solutions for clients in a wide variety of industries such as private equity, healthcare, automotive, specialty chemicals, food and beverages, and many others. From 1985-2000, as president, Durkin guided Fortune 1000 and private-equity clients and helped create Martec's Emotion Intelligence analytics.

Prior to Martec, Durkin was a systems analyst at Arthur Andersen (1982-1985).

Durkin is an active member of the Purdue Alumni Association, President's Council and John Purdue Club (Olympian level), and he and wife Laura endowed the Jim and Laura Durkin IE Scholarship (2020).

Purdue experience

Completed a co-op with Goodyear Aerospace