Fitch, a Boston-based design firm, has named Russell Branaghan practice head of its U.S. research and strategy groups.
Mary Barton has joined Farrand Research, Long Beach, Calif.. as research director.
Brad Nowlin has been named client services manager of RHI, an Overland Park, Kan., research firm.
Jacqueline Noel has been named to the newly created position of national manager, network & syndication radio, advertiser/agency services for the Arbitron Co., New York. In addition, Michael Powderly has been named senior client service representative, national radio services.
Ketchum, a New York public relations firm, has named Carol Cotton executive vice president, director of global research and account planning. She joins Graham Hueber, recently promoted to vice president/director of national research and measurement, to form the new leadership team which will succeed former Research Director Walter Lindenmann, who retires in March.
John Hetherington has been named associate study director at the Boise, Idaho, office of Clearwater Research. In addition, Rhonda Merritt has been named transcription specialist, and Charles Dickinson and Krista Gragg have been promoted to associate study director. At the firm's Council, Idaho, office, Leola Rice has been promoted to data collection assistant supervisor.
Schulman, Ronca & Bucuvalas, a New York research firm, has chosen Mindy Rhindress to head its transportation research group.
Tim Sauer has been named national marketing manager for Quality Controlled Services, a St. Louis data collection firm.
Kevin Waters has been named vice president and general manager of the San Francisco Marketing Group of Greenwich, Conn.-based NFO Research, Inc. In addition, Julie Ann Cox has joined the company has director of business-to-business research and will oversee NFO's Toledo, Ohio-based business-to-business operations center.
Linda Dupree, vice president of sales, advertiser/agency services, for the Arbitron Co., New York, has been named as a Fellow of the International Women's Forum (IWF) Leadership Foundation. She will participate in the foundation's 1999-2000 Fellows Program, which is designed to promote women in leadership positions. The IWF is a global association of women leaders in 18 countries.
John Gilfeather has been named vice chairman of Roper Starch Worldwide, a New York research firm.
Carol Randall-Grier has joined the Atlanta office of Eagle Research as vice president/operations.
Sherry Miller has joined Scarborough Research, New York, as vice president, agency and advertisersales.
Burke Strategic Consulting Group, Cincinnati, Ohio, has promoted JoAnn Sciarrino to practice leader of marketing strategy.
Tracey Howard has been named director of Murray Hill Center Southeast, the new Atlanta facility of New York-based Murray Hill Center which is scheduled to open in January 2000.
Atlanta-based Equifax has named Bill Catucci executive vice president group executive of Equifax's North American Information Services Group.
Susan Sweet has been named senior research associate at Doyle Research Associates, Inc., Chicago.
Research Data Design, Inc., Portland, Ore., has named Jeff Palish national sales director.
Janet Jenness Eason has joined the marketing department of BellSolith International as senior manager marketing research.
Dan Steinberg, president of Salford Systems, a San Diego, Ca!if., software firm, has won Japan's Nikkei Quality Control (QC) Literature Prize. The award recognizes literature that contributes to the progress and further development of quality control and quality management. The prizewinning book is a theoretical and practical introduction to CART (classification and regression trees) decision-tree methodology. Titled Applied Tree-Based Methods Using CART, the book, currently available only in Japanese, is coauthored by Yuji Horie and Atsushi Ootaki.
Margaret G. Dyer has been named vice president, marketing in a newly created position for Allstate Life, Northbrook, Ill. Dyer will be responsible for Allstate Life & Savings marketing strategy, new product development, marketing research, customer communications and sales support.
Answers Research Inc., Solana Beach, Calif., has announced three promotions: Chad Johnson to manager, market research; Melissa LeHardy to manager, client services; and Steve Kretschmer to manager, analysis and repOlting.
Les Leathem, vice president of Concord, Mass.-based research firm MORPACE Pharma Group, Ltd., will head the firm's new Princeton, N.J., office.
Survey.com, a San Jose, Calif., research company, has named Sylvia Waelter vice president of the business intelligence and data warehousing research program. In addition, Peter J. Auditore has been promoted to president of syndicated services.