Marci Grebstein has been appointed as senior vice president of marketing for Famous Footwear.
Hunter Public Relations, New York, has appointed Heddy Parker DeMaria as chief insights officer. DeMaria will be responsible for supervising a team working on consumer and market insights and program measurement across Hunter teams and clients.
North Reading, Mass., company FRESH Communications has named Amy Sullivan as chief marketing officer.
Bhavita Trivedi has joined consumer intelligence firm Maru/Matchbox’s Qualitative Center of Excellence as vice president of qualitative insights. Trivedi will be based in the firm’s New York office.
Minneapolis-based digital marketing agency Parqa has hired Jared Hummel as chief operating officer.
Fiona Blades, founder of London-based research firm MESH Experience, has joined the editorial advisory board for ESOMAR’s Research World magazine.
Dave Ginsburg has been named chief customer officer San Francisco-based insights platform UserTesting.
Encino, Calif., sampling company InnovateMR has added five to its survey sampling business: Joe Regan, Marie O’Malley, Alyssa Witwer, Josh Mankiewicz and Will Luckey. Each holds the title of director of business development.
Honeoye Falls, N.Y., consulting firm KJT Group has promoted Lynn Clement to chief research officer.
In Brussels, Kantar Public, the public policy consulting division of research company Kantar, has appointed Roelof-Jan Molemaker as chief executive officer Benelux
Lisa Gudding has joined research company Ipsos as executive vice president, focused on building new client relationships. She will be based in Minneapolis.
New York-based company SurveyHealthcare has appointed Mili Bhatia as senior vice president, project services and Linda Nguyen as vice president, client relationships.
Consumer intelligence platform Frontier7, New York, has hired Daryl Maloney McCall as vice president of global commercialization.
Irvine, Calif., mobile research company MFour has hired Fang Zhang as a senior software engineer, Yvette Gonzalez as director of fulfillment and Tara Chawla as an accounting specialist. Additionally, the firm has hired Thomas Palompelli as director of product marketing, Allison Constable as a senior solutions executive and Natasha Tran as a senior solutions development representative.
Plano, Texas, data services company Dynata has appointed Dawn Hirsch as executive vice president, human resources.
New York-based consumer insights platform Perksy has appointed Tom Markert as chief operating officer.
Digital data collection company Lightspeed has promoted Jackie Blackler and Simon Buckley to co-managing directors to lead its Europe, Middle East and Africa business.
Princeton, N.J., data solutions and services firm ALC has added Bill Livek, vice chairman of the board for Comscore, to its board of directors.
In New York, digital marketing agency iProspect has appointed Doug O’Reilly as SVP, head of data and insights.
Rockville, Md., research company Westat has appointed Jeri Mulrow as vice president and director of statistical sciences, leading the company’s staff of statisticians. She takes over the position from David Morganstein.
Charleston, S.C., online sample and research operations company Market Cube has hired Craig Dormanen to continue to fuel its growth across North America. Additionally, Iwan Bondarenko has been promoted to vice president to help manage the company’s data collection sales efforts.
ESOMAR, Amsterdam, has appointed Reg Baker as its North American regional ambassador. Baker is currently executive director at Market Research Institute International.
Encino, Calif., sampling company InnovateMR has made new additions to its product team. Amanda Keller-Grill has been appointed as VP of product strategy and Jake Leal has been appointed as director of platform solutions.
The ISA Family of Companies (which includes ISA, Q-insights, SoapBoxSample and icanmakeitbetter) has announced internal promotions and new hires from outside the research industry to focus on specific verticals. Sally DeLuca has been hired as account manager to help support the growth of SoapBoxSample’s CANNApinion Poll, a bimonthly survey of cannabis users. Marisa Morgan has been hired as an account executive, while James Gray has been promoted to CTO of icanmakeitbetter and Paul Dawson will join the development team. Rosa Gomez has been hired as an estimating and vendor relations associate and Kiera Sheppard has been hired as SoapBoxSample’s sales and marketing administrative assistant. Kealan Crowley has been promoted to account manager.
U.K.-based research company Maru Group has appointed Julie Paul as chief of operations.
Insights Curry, a San Francisco-based research technology company and product division of Knowledge Excel, has appointed Mohit Shant as director of innovation. The company also plans to double its employee base and add senior employees to its client services team over the next three months.
Rebecca Brooks has been named CEO of Los Angeles-based research company Alter Agents. Co-founders Angela Woo and Phil Dance will be leaving the company to pursue other opportunities.
In London, SurveyHealthcare has appointed Tamara Burke as director, qualitative business development and Michela Gonano as project director, global qualitative services.
Branded Research Inc., San Diego, has appointed Emmanuel de Boucaud to its board of directors.
London-based research company Kantar has appointed Amy Cashman and Darren Bhattachary as co-CEOs of its insights division. They take over responsibilities from Will Galgey, who was recently appointed chief operating officer of the insights division. Cashman and Bhattachary will share responsibility for day-to-day operations as well as growth and transformation of Kantar TNS and Kantar Millward Brown brands across the U.K. and Ireland. These appointments follow the recent announcements of Mark Inskip leading Kantar Media in the U.K. and Craig Watkins as chief executive of Kantar Public U.K.
Steve August, former CMO of research software company FocusVision, has joined the board of directors for Stamford, Conn., text analytics firm OdinText.
New Orleans-based audience platform Lucid has promoted the following: Nicole Patel to chief people officer; Rick Rodgers to chief operations officer; Andy Ellis to chief revenue officer and managing director, North America; and Ben Hogg to managing director, international.
20|20 Research, Nashville, Tenn., has added Christine Efken to its insights team as a research strategist. The firm has also added Justin Blomgren and Nisha Sheth to its business development group. Blomgren holds the position of director of client engagement, while Sheth joins as a client development manager.
Chicago-based researcher IRI has appointed Baljit Dail as president of IRI Global. He will also join the board of directors. Dail joins the company from New Mountain Capital, a major investor in IRI. Additionally, Piyush Chaudhari, president of the Americas and strategy, will be leaving IRI to pursue a new opportunity.
Joe Baksha, president and CEO of Irvine, Calif., merchandising and marketing solutions firm OSI Creative, announced his retirement, effective March 31. He will be succeeded by John Kellogg, chief operating officer.
Media measurement company Verto Analytics has hired the following: Vinayak Nair as VP of custom research, based in Toronto; Tony Perucca as VP of sales, based in Seattle; Jenni Hartwig as VP of client services, based in San Francisco; and Paul Stenback as VP of finance, based in Helsinki.
Research and analytics company M Science, New York, has hired Gerard Varjacques as global head of sales.
Atlanta-based research firm Marketing Workshop Inc. has appointed Rohan Ullal as director of marketing sciences.
IT analyst firm Storage Switzerland, Fort Worth, Texas, has hired Krista Macomber as senior analyst.
Zoe Dowling, SVP of research at FocusVision, has been appointed to the board of directors for the Market Research Institute International (MRII). She has also joined Women in Research’s mentoring program. In addition, her curriculum on Emerging Methods and the Future of Market Research was added to the University of Georgia Professional Courses as part of MRII Principles Express.
Toronto-based consumer intelligence firm Maru/Matchbox has appointed Daniel Finder as president, international. The role is in addition to his current role as Maru/Matchbox CEO of Latin America.
New York-based consumer data ecosystem Veriglif has appointed Jonathan Ewert to its board of directors. Ewert is CEO of CapZone Analytics and serves on various boards.
Rakuten Insight Global, a wholly-owned online market research subsidiary of Tokyo-based Internet services company Rakuten Inc., has appointed Takahiro Yamaya as president. Yamaya will take over for Hidefumi Watanabe, founder of the previous AIP Corporation. Watanabe is being promoted to a broader director role within the Rakuten Group and will continue in an advisory role within Rakuten Insight.
Consumer insights automation platform Zappi has promoted Julio Franco to lead its newly-formed global customer team, created to establish customer success and value generation through Zappi’s platform. The customer transformation arm of the team includes Patricia Montesdeoca, Tristan Findlay, Katie O’Connor and Jared Carr.
U.K.-based customer data science company dunnhumby has appointed Julie Woods-Moss as chair of its board of directors.
Aragon Research, Palo Alto, Calif., has added Betsy Burton to its analyst team as VP research and fellow.
Native, a New York-based technology company that connects enterprises with data collectors, has appointed Chris Incardona as vice president for the public sector.
Research company B2B International has named Silvia Leiva as APAC regional insights and business growth director, based in Singapore.
Branded Research Inc., San Diego, has appointed Lowell Ricklefs to its board of directors in an advisory role. Ricklefs is currently the managing partner for Traction Advising.
Stockholm-based technology provider Cint has launched its global enterprise solutions team. The team will be led by Greg Dunbar, EVP of enterprise. He will be joined by Mike Misel, SVP of enterprise for the Americas, who will lead the North American operation.
Rhinebeck, N.Y., company Phoenix Marketing International has appointed Tamilselvan Gurusamy as its new CTO. Gurusamy will be based in the company’s Oldsmar, Fla., office.
Los Angeles-based research automation platform PureSpectrum has promoted Travis Miller to vice president, client success and Andrew Alabada to director, client success.