Howe Burch has been named senior vice president global communications and sports marketing for Fila, New York. Marketing research will be among his new responsibilities.
Walker Information, Indianapolis, has promoted Mark Ratekin to finance and administration group vice president and David Thomas to vice president of statistical science.
Janet Hackman has rejoined Qfact Marketing Research, Cincinnati, as project director. In addition, the firm has named Rob Hanson director of marketing and business development.
Marketing Technology Solutions Inc. (MTS), a New York marketing information company, has named Jeff Clinton head of client service for the MTS syndicated division.
Millward Brown Group has named Brian Jacobs to head its newly created Media Research Unit. He be based in London. Millward Brown has named Edward Laginess to the newly created position of global director, human resources, based in Naperville, Ill. Blázs Feitel has joined the firm’s Hungary office as client service director. At SMG/KRC Millward Brown in Poland, Jan Kunkowski has been promoted to director of the department of realization of computer-assisted projects.
In conjunction with the acquisition of New York research firm Barry Leeds and Associates, Inc. by Calabasas, Calif.-based Informa Research Services, Paul Lubin has been named managing director of Barry Leeds and Associates, Inc., and will also serve as senior vice president at Informa Research Services, Inc. Michael Adler becomes the CEO of Barry Leeds and Associates, Inc.
Fort Washington, Pa.-based TVG Marketing Research & Consulting has named Irene Forssen executive director, David Moak executive director, and Gary S. Silverman vice president. The firm has also named Jim Hoch West Coast business development associate. He will be based in Los Angeles.
NFO WorldGroup has named Dean Heller marketing manager for NFO USA’s Northeast Region. He will be responsible for developing and executing research projects for clients serviced from the company’s Toledo, Ohio, and Greenwich, Conn., offices. Separately, Louis Turner has been named vice president and general manager of the company’s Minneapolis marketing office.
Lewis Oberlander has been named vice president for domestic marketing research at Warner Bros. Pictures.
Arbitron Inc., New York, has named Michael Sharp northeast regional manager for Arbitron Advertiser/ Agency Services.
Ken Tan has been named president of Perseus-Asia, the new Singapore office of Perseus Development Corporation, a Braintree, Mass. research software firm.
Charles Pearson has been named vice president and general manager, West Coast operations, for Greenfield Online, Wilton, Conn. He will be based in San Francisco.
Frank J. Quirk has been promoted to president of Opinion Research Corporation, Princeton, N.J. In addition to his new responsibilities, Quirk will remain CEO of the ORC Macro subsidiary.
Ted Kendall has been named director of market intelligence services at Glow Teknologies, Greenwood Village, Colo.
Adam Smith has joined U.K. market research firm ORC International as account manager.
In line with a new organizational structure, VNU has named Steven M. Schmidt president and chief executive officer of ACNielsen and executive vice president of VNU Marketing Information. Frank Martell has been named chief operating officer of ACNielsen and senior vice president of VNU Marketing Information. Brian Chadbourne has been named president and chief executive officer of VNU Advisory Services, and executive vice president of VNU Marketing Information. Separately, VNU has named Maarten Schikker vice president corporate sustainability.
NOP World, New York, has named Denise Teeling chief financial officer.
Suzanne Johnson has joined GfK Custom Research Inc. as senior vice president and manager of its San Francisco office.
William Lawliss has joined Sports Research Partnership, a joint venture between SGMA International and Sports Marketing Surveys, as director of business development.
Meyers Research Center, New York, has named Matthew Germain vice president.
Pete Farrand has been appointed senior research associate at FDS International, a London-based
research firm.
Paris research firm Ipsos has named Alain Péron managing director (France) of the company’s quality and customer satisfaction division, Ipsos Loyalty. Separately, Randall Emond has joined the company as CEO of the Ipsos Forecasting, Modeling and Consulting global division, which includes the Ipsos-Novaction and Ipsos-Vantis modeling and forecasting practices.
John Birmingham has been named vice president/marketing for Chicago Tribune. Marketing research will be among his new responsibilities.
London-based health care market research firm Isis Research announced that its 2003 graduate training program has now finished and that the 12 recruits have now joined their respective teams across the globe. Joining as junior research executives are: Lindsay Thomas and Jennifer Yu, who have joined the Isis Maryland team; Gemma Calero Noves, who has joined the Isis Spain team; Cecille Plasabas, from the Isis Philippines office and Emily Sumner, Jennifer Bickett, Elaine Bonnici, Annabelle Gourlay, Nick Hedley, Pieter De Richter, Elizabeth Allison and Nicola Scott have all joined the U.K. office.
Randall S. Smith has been named president and chief executive officer of comScore Survey Solutions, a new business unit of Reston, Va.-based comScore Networks.