Betsy Frank has been named to the newly created position of executive vice president, research and planning, at Viacom’s Cable Networks, Film and Publishing .
Tricycle, Inc ., a Chattanooga, Tenn., provider of technology products and services to the carpet manufacturing industry, has named Caleb Ludwick market intelligence manager.
Peter Picard has joined Teenage Research Unlimited , Northbrook  Ill., as research director.
Brad Harmon has been named vice president, consulting services, at Walker Information , Indianapolis . The firm has named three new project directors to its client services department: Jessica Kirsch, Joel Schaafsma, and Christina Will. Walker also has promoted the following associates in the client services and technology departments: Jennifer Geise to director, IT project manager; Rebecca Tearman to programmer/analyst 2; and Brian O’Rourke and Mike Schwarz to programmer/analyst.
Michael Frantz has been named executive vice president - marketing services, of NOVO 1, Inc., a Waukesha, Wis., direct marketing firm. Marketing research will be among his new responsibilities.
Steve Carroll has joined J.D. Power and Associates, Westlake Village , Calif. , as a senior partner and executive vice president of client services.
Maura Lewis has joined New York search engine marketing agency icrossing as director of analytics.
New York-based IMAP Research, a division of The Ziment Group, has named Mike Kelly president.
Jennifer Karsh has joined C&R Research , Chicago, as a qualitative research director with InVision, the company’s qualitative division. In addition, Joy Boggio has been named senior manager of coding.
John Carter has joined the consumer products division of New York-based Ipsos as vice president.
Jeff Carroll has joined FocusVision Worldwide, Stamford , Conn. , as vice president of VideoMarker services. In addition, Jennifer VanGele has been named senior account director for the Southeast territory.
John Kerr has been named account associate at Directions Research Inc., Cincinnati . The following have joined Directions as associates: Debra Miller, senior data analyst; Steve Decker, project manager; Jeffrey Krohl, on-site account manager; Amanda Chalk and Michael Hunter , research assistants.
London-based research firm Synovate Healthcare has named Simon Woodlock chief financial officer. Separately, Synovate has named Christian Batte as general manager of its Maghreb (Morocco , Algeria and Tunisia ) operations. And Andreas Zachariou has been named general manager of Synovate’s UAE office.
Millward Brown has announced a number of appointments. Joanna Seddon has been named executive vice president. At Millward Brown France, Anne Monnier has been named head of client service; Robin Pellaton has been named client service director; and Kalya Ousmane has been named associate client service director. At Millward Brown UK , Sara Law has been appointed associate account director.
Derek Allen has been named senior vice president, marketing sciences at Research International , Chicago.
Netherlands-based VNU has named Rob Ruijter chief financial officer, effective January 1, 2005.
Maria Santonato has joined Product Evaluations , Inc., La Grange, Ill., as an account executive.
Following Kjell de Orr’s appointment as group managing director of GfK Martin Hamblin , Andrew Reid has taken over his role as the global head of strategic accounts and client development (SACD) in Germany-based GfK’s Custom Research division.
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