Boise, Idaho-based Clearwater Research has announced a number of staff additions and promotions. At the Boise office, Andrea Hansen and Nanette Wilson have joined the staff as research analysts, and Kathy Boyer has been named transcriptionist. Promotions: Pamela Piirto to data collection supervisor (evening); Tara Green to project technical assistant; Rhonda Merritt to assistant supervisor - transcription; Kenny Shumardto part-time data collection supervisor (evening/weekend); and Willie Montgomery and Sarah Messinger to data collection helpers. At the Boise Human Factors office, Don Carroll has been named usability specialist and Barbara Bullock has been promoted to recruiter. At the firm’s Council, Idaho, office, Leola Rice and Janette Schill have been promoted to data collection supervisor.
New York-based Media Metrix, Inc., an Internet and digital media measurement firm, has appointed Jonathan Jephcott director of research of its Pacific Rim operations.
Steve Diller has been named partner in charge of e-business and media strategy at Cheskin Research, Redwood Shores, Calif.
William Bluestein has been named to the newly created position of president and chief operating officer of Forrester Research, Cambridge, Mass. He will report to George Colony, who will continue as chairman and chief executive officer. Bluestein also has been elected to Forrester’s board of directors, increasing the number of directors on Forrester’s board to six.
Anna Ritchey has joined Northwest Research Group as project manager.
Michael Griego has joined Active Research, Burlingame, Calif., as vice president of sales.
O.J. Harris has joined Eagle Research-Atlanta as a supervisor in the qualitative research department.
Bruce Blakeman has been named team leader of the Grand Rapids, Mich., office of Wirthlin Worldwide, a McLean, Ga., research and consulting firm.
Marketing Systems Group, Fort Washington, Pa., has named Joe Jennings vice president - sales. In addition, Karen Flannery has been named account executive.
AZG Research, Bowling Green, Ohio, has promoted Stephanie Schwaegerle to vice president.
Answers Research, Inc., Solana Beach, Calif., has named Lester Greenberg director of international data collection and Web panel management.
Jeff Shusterman has been promoted to vice president at The Marketing Workshop, Inc., an Atlanta research firm.
Dan Fitzgerald has joined InterSurvey, Menlo Park, Calif., as senior vice president, client development. In addition, Denise Stella has been named vice president and managing director in charge of the consumer packaged goods practice on the East Coast. Both are based in the firm's recently opened New York office.
CORRECTION: In the March issue, Wayne Serie was incorrectly listed as the newly-named vice president and chief financial officer at Minneapolis-based Satisfaction Management Systems. He is president and chief financial officer.