Pete Krainik has joined New York-based DoubleClick Inc. as chief marketing officer.

Harris Interactive, Rochester, N.Y., has named Robert E. Knapp as its new vice chairman and chief executive officer. Knapp has assumed executive responsibility for management and direction of the company and has replaced CEO and founder Gordon S. Black, who will continue as executive chairman. The firm has also named the following to its board as independent directors: George Bell, president and CEO of Upromise Inc.; Stephen D. Harlan, partner in Harlan Enterprises and former vice chairman of KPMG Peat Marwick; Antoine Treuille, executive managing partner of Mercantile Capital Partners in New York; and Dr. Subrata Sen of Yale University. In addition, Scott D. Upham has been named senior vice president of the Automotive and Transportation Research (ATR) group.

The NPD Group, Inc., Port Washington, N.Y., has named Luis Delahoz vice president of sales for NPD Techworld, the company’s technology tracking division. The firm has also named Pamela Smith vice president of client development for the NET service of NPD Foodworld and Warren Solochek vice president of client development for the foodservice side of NPD Foodworld.

Justin Edge has joined Knowledge Networks , Menlo Park, Calif., as managing director/senior vice president. He is based in the firm’s New York office.

Cincinnati-based Burke Inc., has named president Michael Baumgardner as president and CEO. Current CEO Ron Tatham is retiring after 28 years with the company. The management change will be effective October 1, 2004, the end of Burke’s fiscal year. The firm also announced a number of other staff additions: Sandip Narang has been named senior account executive with its client services team; Greg Van Scoy has been named vice president of client services; and Richard G. Miklautsch has been named senior account executive. Keith Kettle and Ravi Venkitaraman have been promoted to senior vice president of client services. In the firm’s Boston office, Jodie McInerney has been named vice president of client services. The firm also congratulates Kunal Gupta , senior consultant, linkage and integration services, on the completion of his doctoral degree.

NFO WorldGroup, Northwood, Ohio, has named Chris George group account director for NFO USA’s northeast region.

James T. Medick, CEO and founder of MRCGroup Research Institute, a Las Vegas research firm, has been named market research executive of the year by Research Business Report .

Bothell, Wash.-based Ethernet networking firm Allied Telesyn has named Todd Chi pman senior vice president of marketing. Marketing research will be among his new responsibilities.

Tenafly, N.J.-based research firm Invoke Solutions has named Corey V. Torrence as its new chairman and CEO. The company has also named Simon Blanks vice president of sales and channels, and David J. Rubinstein vice president of operations and customer care.

Affinnova, Inc., a Cambridge, Mass., product design and development firm, has appointed Dr. John Hauser to its executive advisory board. Hauser is the Kirin Professor of Marketing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (M.I.T.) Sloan School of Management and also heads the Virtual Customer Initiative for M.I.T.’s Center for Innovation in Product Development. The firm has also named H. Robert Hawthorne to its executive advisory board.

Jennifer Steinberg has been promoted to facility director at Focus Pointe Suburban Philadelphia .

Bob Chua has been named head of the new Asia-Pacific regional office of Seattle-based Global Market Insite . The new office is in Sydney, Australia.

Target Research Group, Nanuet, N.Y., has named David Buchler senior vice president. In addition, Larry Herman has joined the company as vice president.

Peter Mills has been named Australian country manager and will manage the new Sydney, Australia branch office of Milwaukee-based research firm Market Probe .

TVG Marketing Research & Consulting, Fort Washington, Pa., has promoted Eric John and Melinda Shorr to associate vice president.

FGI Research, Chapel Hill, N.C., has named Nicole Cicogna vice president of sales.

Walker Information, Indianapolis, has announced several promotions: Kim Veal to accounting specialist; Matthew Bane to IT project coordinator; Kerrie Castelo to director of client service; and Sarah Raines to project director. Walker has also hired the following project directors: Emily Stucky, Joe Horvath and Lauren Block .

Richmond, Va.-based specialty chemical firm Albemarle Corporation has named John M. Steitz senior vice president. In this position, he is responsible for Albemarle’s two global business units, sales and marketing, research and development, market research and the company’s global regions.

Melissa Anderson has joined MRSI (Marketing Research Services Inc.), Cincinnati, as research analyst.

Opinion Research Corporation (ORC), Princeton, N.J., has named Seth Levenstein director of its new ORC Sports Research Desk.

Atlanta-based Creative Research Services, Inc. has named Cynthia Avila account executive, Jennifer Lewis project director, and Pam Auclair manager of field operations. In addition, Lauren Irving has been promoted to senior project director.

ICR/International Communications Research, Media, Pa., has named James F. Fleckenstein vice president, account services. He will head a new ICR office in New York City.

New York-based Arbitron Inc. has named Ian Samuel client service representative for Arbitron Advertiser/Agency Services.

Greenfield Online, Wilton, Conn., has named announces Robert Mandl director of panels.

R. Bruce Williamson has joined U30 Group, Inc., a Knoxville, Tenn., research firm, as vice president of analytics and development.

San Francisco-based Socratic Technologies has named Donna Wydra vice president of its new Consumer Products Practice.