Robin Spengler, Robert Burke, Robert Mozelewski, Donald Siebert, Philip Barnard and Beatriz Marcet Champagne have been named to the advisory board of the University of Texas at Arlington's Master of Science in Marketing Research degree program. Spengler is the director of international product development and research for Kansas City, Mo.-based Hallmark Cards Inc. Burke is vice president of sales and marketing at Pace Foods Ltd., San Antonio. Mozelewski is director of marketing research at Electronic Data System in Dallas. Siebert is director of marketing research for Fruit of the Loom Inc., Bowling Green, Ken. Barnard is the chairman and CEO of Research International Group in London, England, and Champagne is the director of Inter American Heart Foundation for the American Heart Association in Dallas.
Ann Benson has been named executive director of the Quantitative Services Division of Research Data Analysis Inc., Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Karyn Troiano and Ruth Philippou have joined the firm as project directors. Meanwhile, Dick Peterson has been named the western regional director of RDA West, the company's San Rafael, Calif., branch. (cf. Research Company News)
Amanda Hall has been tapped for the vice president, client services position at MarketVision Research Inc., Cincinnati. She specializes in market strategy development, market and economic analysis, new product and services analysis, demand forecasting, integrated resource planning and regulatory issues for public utilities. Hall has opened an Atlanta office for the firm and has responsibility for Market Vision's Atlanta-area clients and the company's public utilities business segment. (cf. Research Company News)
George Mathew has been named vice president of Data Niche Associates, Northfield, Ill. His expertise is in the development of databases and software forthe pharmaceutical industry. The company will depend on him to identify client needs and help clients implement database use.
Ilene Lanin-Kettering has joined Conway, Milliken & Associates, Chicago, as an account group vice president. She comes to CMA from Maritz Marketing Research's Chicago office.
Susan Tenley has been promoted to data collection manager at C.J. Olson Market Research Inc., Minneapolis.
Terrie Maize and Bryan Marks have joined Kansas City, Mo.-based Market Directions Inc. Maize is a research manager and moderator. Marks is a senior analyst. Meanwhile, Vicki Owens has been promoted to telephone center manager for the company, ownership of which has recently been assumed by Market Directions President Susan Spaulding. (cf. Research Company News)
Healthcare Communications Inc., Princeton, N.J., has effected four staff changes. Jack McAleer has moved from the company's client services department to its sales team; his new title is vice president - marketing. Fran Magdziak has left marketing research to become the company's director of online client services. Most recently with Ciba-Geigy, Gene May has joined the company as director of marketing research. And Anne Smith has been promoted to project manager in charge of HCI's Media-Chek reports.
Barry Wilensky has joined Leferman Associates Inc., Stamford, Conn., as a vice president for client services. With an extensive background in quantitative research, Wilensky will help Leferman's clients understand their markets and consumer behavior and response to advertising.
As part of its push to increase its coverage of the Northeast, Cincinnati-based Market Decisions has named Steven P. Wenderfer regional vice president. Wenderfer, who is based in Hackensack, N.J., will lead the company's effort to serve consumer products clients with in-store research services in the Northeast and in the mid-Atlantic section of the United States.
New York-based FIND/SVP's acquisition of Specialists in Business Information Inc. - a Long Island, N.Y., publisher of market profiles - has resulted in SBI founder Stuart Hirshhorn becoming a vice president of FIND/SVP and the managing editor of the SBI product line. (cf. Research Company News)
Bonnie J. Kenoly has been promoted to vice president at Decision Analyst Inc., Arlington, Texas. A Decision Analyst staffer since February 1980, Kenoly in her new position leads a team of executives assigned to the media, entertainment, tourism and food industries. Meanwhile, Kim Fleger, vice president of client service at the company, has been tapped to serve as chair of the health care committee of the Dallas-Ft. Worth chapter of the American Marketing Association.
Daniel H. Dickson has been named president and COO of Pine Co., Santa Monica, Calif. Dickson joined Pine in 1992 to help devise and implement strategies to expand the company's products and generate new growth, and has been involved in the development of Pine Co.'s optical scanning division. He is leading a search for new products and opportunities. Benjamin Pine, founder and CEO of the company, will now focus on the company's future direction and its relationships with core clients.
Andy Lilliston has joined Service Strategies International Inc., Dallas, as executive vice president and general manager. Cindy Ford has joined the company as vice president and director of market research and customer satisfaction measurement. She comes to Service Strategies from Southern Methodist University's Center for Statistical Consulting and Research, which she directed.