William Moult has been named chief executive officer of ASI Market Re­search, New York City.

John Vanderhoof has been promoted to field research director at Chamber­lain Research Consultants, Madison, WI.

Ken Benjamin has joined Healthcare Communications, Inc., a Princeton, NJ-based health care promotion research firm, in the newly created position of senior vice president/planning, research & development. Bill Moos has joined the company as vice president/market­ing. In addition, Tybe Marks has been promoted to client services specialist and Erika Perzi joins HCFs Client Services Department as advertising rate card coordinator.

Karen Predow-James has been elected to the board of directors of Mar­ket Facts, Inc.

Richard Luker has joined Chilton Research Services, Radnor, PA, in the new position of account executive.

Simmons Syndicated Studies has named Anna Fountas president.

Dunlap "Scotty" Scott, previously of Gikas International and Quality Con­trolled Services, has joined Consumer Pulse, Inc. as director of the Consumer Pulse of Denver operations.

Village Marketing Research, Skippack, PA, has added Peg Bauder and Jane Genuardi as research assistants.

Troy, NY-based Maplnfo Corp., a developer of desktop mapping software, has promoted Randy Drawas to vice president, marketing communications.

Aaron Grossman has become a part­ner in the New York City based research firm Newman-Stein, Inc. In addi­tion, Gate Cleary has been promoted to vice president.

Walker: Research & Analysis, L.P. has a new president, Thomas King, and a new management team: Linda Tessar, v.p., custom research west; Lee Markowitz, marketing sciences direc­tor; Kimberly Graham Lee, v.p., new product development; Santina Sullivan, v.p., corporate social respon­sibility measurement; and Karen Connolly, manager, marketing & plan­ning. In addition, Terry Erickson will serve as director of the San Francisco client office. Account Group Manager Robert McMahon will head the Princeton client service office. And Mary Smith, account executive, will head Walker's new Chicago client service office. (See this issue's "Research Com­pany News" section for more informa­tion on the new offices.)

Lisa Painchaud has been named di­rector of media/marketing services for CRE, Inc., an Indianapolis-based ad/marketing communications agency. In addition to overseeing the agency's media department, she will direct the newly formed marketing services de­partment, which will offer market re­search as one of its services.

Ron Arden has joined the Stamford, CT-based research firm Leferman As­sociates as vice president for client ser­vice.

Ira Povlin has joined Spagna Dunn Research, Inc. as executive vice presi­dent. Povlin has served as president of Market Facts, New York and been a member of that company's board of directors. He will be responsible for his own account group at Spagna Dunn.