Oklahoma City fast-food chain Sonic Corp. has named James O’Reilly senior vice president and CMO.
Research Now, Plano, Texas, has hired Melanie Courtright as vice president, research services; and Madhu Rajendran as vice president, operations.
New York research company Advanced Focus has promoted Brad Solomon to president and Sara White to vice president.
Scott Van Manen has joined Omaha, Neb., research company The MSR Group as vice president, senior methodologist.
Ken Colen has been named senior vice president at New York research company Ipsos MediaCT.
Shelton, Conn., research firm SSI has named Christopher Fanning as its new president and chief operating officer.
Maritz Research, St. Louis, has named Loretta Seymour vice president, global market lead, Automotive Research Group. Seymour will be based in Torrance, Calif.
London research company BrainJuicer Group PLC has appointed Ralph Komen as client director, Netherlands; and Maria Carla Sanna as country director, Italy.
Market Strategies International, a Livonia, Mich., research company, has made the following promotions: Rob Stone to CEO; George Wilkerson, president; Phil Giroux, CFO; and Andrew Morrison, chairman.
Camm Epstein has been named director, strategic market access, for Princeton, N.J., research firm BioVid Corporation.
GMO Research/Japan Market Intelligence, Tokyo, has appointed Jonathan Sheldrake as European sales director of its U.K. office.
Fresno, Calif., research company Decipher Inc. has hired Richard Collins as director, client development, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Collins will be based in London.
ICM Research, London, has hired James Guild as research director, omnibus. The company has also named Andrew Wiseman acting managing director.
Gareth Nicol has joined Bangalore, India, research company Cross-Tab as associate vice president, European client services.
Lance Hoffman has been made partner of New York research company Opinion Access Corp.
InSites Consulting, a Ghent, Belgium, research company, has named Magali Geens partner. Hakim Zemni and Ramon Pardo have been named managing director of the company’s Belgium and Netherlands offices, respectively. Managing partners Filip De Boeck and Niels Schillewaert have been appointed to lead the New York office. InSites has also made several additions to its ForwaR&D lab team: Anouk Willems, Elias Veris, Bas De Luij and Thomas Troch.
Salt Lake City research company Allegiance has hired Andrew McInnes as director, product marketing.
Farmington Hills, Mich., research company Morpace Inc. has promoted David Myhrer to senior vice president, brand strategy; and hired Zhen Hua (Olive) Zhang as managing director and Chris Tan as senior project director of its Asia-Pacific office in Shanghai, China.
Judy Bahary has joined Reston, Va., research company comScore Inc. as senior vice president, marketing solutions, consumer packaged goods. Bahary will be based in Chicago. Additionally, comScore has appointed Marcos Christensen as country manager for Argentina and Uruguay.
San Francisco research company Terapeak has named Kevin North president and CEO.
Andy Waller has been named global COO of New York research company Hall & Partners. Kevin Ford has been named global head of research solutions.
U.K. research company SPA Future Thinking has hired Jörg Höhner as senior vice president, global head of automotive.
KJT Group, a Honeoye Falls, N.Y., research company, has appointed Tom Richardson as vice president, strategic consulting.
Jayson Roberts has joined New York research company Abt SRBI as vice president, business development, market insights.
Santa Monica, Calif., research company The Phelps Group has hired Alex Perez as team leader.
M/A/R/C Research, Dallas, has honored Alice Butler, vice president, and Betsy Sutherland, senior vice president, with the annual President’s Award. Brian Barnes, executive moderator, was named Employee of the Year. Recipients were selected by a committee of senior management and were awarded based on 2011 performance and service.
Martin Lautman has joined the advisory board at Symphony Advanced Media, a San Francisco research company.
South Africa research company Yellowwood has appointed Matthew Glogauer as group head, research and analytics. The company has also promoted Jenny Moore to head of business development and innovation.
Richard Ow has joined Carlsbad, Calif., research company EEDAR as vice president, sales and strategy.
Paul Mazzoni has joined Atlanta marketing company Cardlytics as director, merchant analytics.
London research company GfK NOP has appointed Richard Lawrance as director, consumer health care, consumer products and retail.
Palo Alto, Calif., research software company Revolution Analytics has hired David Rich as CEO.
Simon Dannatt has joined The Sound Research, Vancouver, B.C., as CEO.
Leeds, U.K., research company Nunwood has appointed Alvin Jackson as director, consulting, customer experience management.