The American Marketing Association, Chicago, has selected Christine Moorman as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Marketing. Her four-year term will begin on July 1. Moorman is the T. Austin Finch Sr. professor of business administration at The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University.
Research consultancy The Melior Group, Philadelphia, has hired Jessica Dunbar as staff assistant. She will provide administrative support, coordinate technology and operations solutions and will be responsible for managing day-to-day details for Melior’s studies.
Canada-based research software firm Vision Critical has appointed Alan Price as chief technology officer.
Quester, a marketing research firm based in Des Moines, Iowa, has hired Alice Gold as senior vice president, client services. She is located in southern California.
New York-based research firm SIS International has appointed Anita Meng as China country manager, based in Shanghai.
Behavioral health researcher Scott P. Novak has joined Bethesda, Md., research firm Abt Associates as a principal associate. He will direct several of Abt’s opioid and behavioral health research projects.
Facebook has appointed Jérôme Pesenti to lead FAIR, Facebook’s AI research arm. He replaces Yann LeCun, who will take on the role of chief AI scientist.
Leah Perlmutter has been promoted to director of research and strategy at New York research company Open Mind Strategy.
The Market Research Institute International, Ann Arbor, Mich., has announced that Executive Director Reg Baker intends to retire by the end of 2018. The board has formed a committee to direct the search for a new executive director.
MarketVision Research, Blue Ash, Ohio, has promoted Janice Gennaria and Megan Schohl to senior research associate, while Hannah McIntosh has been promoted to research associate.
Ronald Zavala has rejoined Competitive Edge Research & Communication Inc. as director of operations. Zavala will lead operations at the company’s new interviewing and recruiting center in El Paso, Texas.
Seongjoon Koo has been named chief data officer, a newly-created position, for Costa Mesa, Calif., research firm J.D. Power.
Consumer intelligence firm Maru/Matchbox, New York, has appointed Ted Chen as managing director, financial services. Also, the firm appointed Steven Spencer-Steigner to the technology consulting team in San Francisco as vice president of qualitative insights.
MFour Mobile Research, Irvine, Calif., has hired Dorian Smiley as a software architect, while Kristin Caiella has joined the sales team as a solutions executive and Vanessa Hernandez has joined the operations team as a fielding expert. Also, David Constantine has been added as director of marketing and Wendell Hicken has been named chief technology officer.
In London, marketing agency Merkle has promoted Thomas Byrne to lead its agency operations across EMEA. Byrne will also join the Merkle EMEA executive leadership team as the representative for Merkle’s agency services division. The firm has also appointed Guy Howland as creative director and Sarah Painter as SEO director. Both are based in London.
Chris Coville has joined Drive Research, New York, as a project manager.
Media and technology company Comcast, Philadelphia, has named Dana Strong as president, consumer services.
Maggie Randolph has joined research company Lightspeed’s U.S. sales team as account executive. She is based in Chicago.
Germany-based researcher Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft has appointed Andreas Meuer as executive vice president in charge of controlling and digital business processes.
Audience data firm Eyeota has appointed Jill Orr as chief operating officer. Orr is based in London.
Market intelligence firm InCrowd has hired five new employees: Vince Russo as chief technology officer; Matt Cruz as director of client services; Steve Rand as senior product designer; Tyler Tuttle as digital marketing manager; and Mike Ambrosino as junior developer. The company has also expanded to a larger office space in Watertown, Mass.
Canada-based customer engagement agency Bond Brand Loyalty has appointed Jason Chomik as vice president of technology.
Technology company Rakuten Marketing, San Mateo, Calif., has named Stuart Simms as president.
Cincinnati researcher Burke, Inc. has promoted Michael Pangallo to vice president, manager and senior consultant, decision sciences.
Forrester Research Inc., Cambridge, Mass., has appointed two new members to its board of directors: Neil Bradford, CEO of Financial Express Ltd. and Jean Birch, chair of the board of Papa Murphy’s Inc.
Norm Johnston has been appointed CEO of U.K. video ad tech company Unruly. Johnston will replace outgoing CEO and co-founder Sarah Wood, who will take on the role of non-executive chair of Unruly’s board of directors.
University Hospitals, Cleveland, has appointed Arthur E. (Ted) Keegan as chief marketing officer.
Ipsos Marketing, New York, has appointed Chris Sinclair as president, U.S., Ipsos Marketing practices, while Jessica Schneider has been promoted to president of Ipsos Marketing’s quantitative business unit in the U.S.
Virginia Beach, Va., research company Issues & Answers Network Inc. has appointed Gregg Kennedy to its sales team as senior account executive.
In New York, Ipsos has made two appointments at Ipsos Understanding UnLtd, its qualitative research division: Heather Carruthers as president in the U.S. and Rob Hernandez as senior vice president, CPG.
Fairfax, Va., health technology company Vibrent Health has appointed James C. Wade as chief medical informatics officer. Wade will provide direction in clinical, scientific, behavioral and lifestyle research as well as standardization of the measurement and evaluation framework for Vibrent’s digital health programs.
San Francisco-based marketing technology company Motista has appointed Dave Cameron as vice president of analytics.
Jenna Allen has joined U.K. agency DJS Research as research director, responsible for setting up and building an employee engagement department and strengthening the company’s public health offer. Allen will be part of the senior management team, which has also recently added Simon Driver from Future Thinking and Elliot Simmonds, David Marchant, Rebecca Harris and Alex McCluckie, who have been promoted to associate directors.
Research software company Remesh, New York, has appointed the following: Noele Emmons as sales director; Emma Borochoff as marketing director; Bertram Byam as customer success manager; Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky as senior software engineer; and Mike Varga as a data scientist.
Paris-based crowdsourcing company eYeka has appointed market researcher Dan Foreman as chair of its advisory board. Foreman will steer the company’s developments within the market research industry, supporting in business strategy, corporate growth, sales and marketing.
MDC Research, Portland, Ore., has named Dima Sokolov as its new president. Sokolov succeeds Michael Oilar, who will continue with the company in a consulting role for a period of time.
London-based strategic marketing agency CLEAR M&C Saatchi has appointed Adam Garrett as managing director, U.S.
M3 Global Research, Fort Washington, Pa., has appointed Laura Haxton-Wilde as head of European qualitative research, based in London, and Miriam Haynes as global head of survey programming, based in the U.S.
Digital marketing agency iProspect, New York, has appointed Joel Grossman as chief technology officer and Belle Lenz as chief marketing officer for iProspect U.S.
Muriel Lecomte will join research company The NPD Group as senior vice president, responsible for leading operations client service, new initiatives and development, product development and management and research science in Europe. She will be based in Paris.
20|20 Research, Nashville, Tenn., has added Margaret Kozlark to its business development team as vice president of business development.
Van Nuys, Calif., insight community platform icanmakeitbetter has promoted Jeff Livingston to director of research services.
Research technology company Confirmit has appointed Birte Steen as VP sales Nordic, based in the company’s Oslo, Norway, head office.
Los Angeles-based research firm Hypothesis has named Suzanne Nuzzi as VP of finance and Jessica Tornek as president of Momentum, the company’s strategy-led group.