Thomas Pearson has been promoted to vice president of Minneapolis-based IMI Research.
Sherryl Pertzborn has joined Gene Kroupa & Associates, Madison, WI, as account supervisor in charge of focus groups.
Total Research Corp., Princeton, NJ, announces the following staff additions/promotions: Elaine S. Walker has joined as field director. Previously she was field director for Schrader Research. James M. Hennessey was named project director. Previously he was a study director for the Gallup Organization. Christopher W. Kuever has joined as director of operations. Previously he was manager of data processing at The Data Group, Inc. Sue Sender has joined as director of focus group and conference facilities. Previously she was regional field supervisor with ABG Television Research. William J. Dorman was named manager of client services. Doris Antonello has also joined as manager of client services. Previously she was client service manager for McGraw-Hill Research. Stanley M. Zdep, Ph.D., has joined as vice president. Previously he was vice president of Audits & Surveys, Inc. Thomas J. Dubanoski was promoted to director of client services. Suzanne Janny has been promoted to senior research analyst. Joan Fredericks has been promoted to senior methodologist. Ken Zeldis has been promoted to research director in the Financial Services division.
Brian Heinecke has joined Nielsen Marketing Research as vice president, client service-customer information services. Previously he was with the marketing research department of Procter & Gamble as manager-development, Market Measurements Organization. Also, Gary Parkhurst has been named vice president, general manager—Western Region. William McNair has been named customer research/information analysis coordinator.
Two developments from the 31st annual conference of the National Marketing Research Association: Priscilla K. Kamrath, vice president of sales and customer service for Walker: DataSource, received the Member Service Award; Nancy Hayslett, branch manager of Walker: DataSource' s Tempe, AZ, Telephone Center, was named president of the Marketing Research Association.
Harry S. Sunenshine, Ph.D. has been appointed division president of Walker: Research & Analysis, a unit of Indianapolis-based Walker Research, Inc. Previously he was senior vice president of development for Kentucky Fried Chicken Corp.
Gary Hiramoto has been named vice president/client services for The Response Center, Philadelphia. Previously he was vice president and senior account manager for Accountline Financial Services, Inc.
Walter Eduardo Meneses has been promoted to vice president of operations for San Diego-based Analysis Research.
Laura Ranieri has been hired as a research associate at New South Research, Birmingham, AL. Also, Wendy Murry and Demitrius Miller have been named administrative assistants; Lisa Trehan has been named research associate and B.J. Melton has been named national accounts manager.
Jim Trullinger, Ph.D., has been named vice president-telemarketing and general manager of Stamford, CT-based Coast to Coast Telephone Center.
Bob Rowe will head the new Marine Management division of Des Plaines, IL-based Irwin Broh & Associates.
David M. Passe, Ph.D. has joined Rockwood Research, St. Paul, as project director. Also, Lisa Schwartz has been promoted to senior project director.
Irwin Korman has been named research director of New Brunswick, NJ-based R.H. Bruskin Associates. Bill Gay has joined the company as director of new business development. Also, Judi Lescher and Michael Brooks have both been promoted to associate research director.
Thomas J. Finkle, Ph.D., has been named vice president general manager of Goldfarb Consultants’ recently opened New York office.
Audrey Moriarty has been promoted to field and technical services director at Catherine Bryant & Associates, Winston-Salem, NC. In addition, Shelby Redmond has joined the Technical Services division of CB&A and Bobbie Sapp has been promoted to Technical Services team leader.
Steven Akerson, senior vice president and market research director, Colle & McVoy, Inc. has been appointed to the Marketing Research Council of the American Marketing Association.
Susan Weinberg has joined AB Research Associates, Inc., Norwalk, CT, as a senior project director.
David S. Shanker has been named trade service manager in the Trade Relations Department at the SAMI division of The Arbitron Co. in Parsippany, NJ.
John J. O'Hara has been named vice president, sales, of The Ehrhart-Babic Group, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.