S&T Bank, Indiana, Pa., has named Doug Schwabenbauer vice president - marketing analyst.
Ananda Mitra has been named the first director of the Wake Forest University Survey Research Center.
New York-based Millward Brown has named Joanna Seddon executive vice president.
St. Louis-based Doane Marketing Research has named Hylon Kaufmann as market development manager. She will be based in Sanger, Calif.
Digital Research, Inc., Kennebunk, Maine, has promoted Marcia Wood to research director, heading up the company’s medical education tracking program.
Martin Silcock has been named account director, Millward Brown UK. Jon Tayler has been appointed associate account director.
Ruth Mensing has joined Product Evaluations, Inc., La Grange, Ill., as program development specialist.
Vickie L. Cole has been appointed director of technology research at Decision Analyst Inc., Arlington, Texas.
Utah-based data collection firm PGM, Inc. has named Rebecca Walters client development manager.
New York-based Ipsos has announced the following promotions in its U.S. marketing research division, Ipsos Insight: Mike Bellmont has been promoted to vice president, Ipsos-Insight Services Division, Minneapolis; Matt Kleinschmit has been promoted to vice president, Ipsos-Insight Services Division, Chicago; and Kerri Ryan has been promoted to vice president, Ipsos-Insight Services Division, New York. In addition, Mike Weisberger has been promoted to senior vice president and will succeed Lynne Armstrong as head of the company’s behavioral tracking division. And Curt Stenger has joined the company as vice president of analytics for the Ipsos-Insight consumer products division.
Fieldwork International, London, has promoted Jeff Lucas to project manager within the telephone unit. Madhava Turumella has joined as a systems development manager. Matthew Seabrook has joined eQuesta, Fieldwork International’s online survey department, as a team leader.
ICR/International Communications Research, Media, Pa., has added Steve E. Ballou as senior vice president, advanced research methods. In addition, Nicholas J. Tortorello has joined the organization as vice president of public affairs and marketing research. He will be located in new offices for ICR in New York City with Jim Fleckenstein.
Europe-based research provider Ciao has made seven new appointments. Olga Hoffmann-Kulaga has been named senior project manager, based in Munich. In Madrid, Melanie Wiles has been named senior project manager; Cristina Cucullo has joined as junior project manager; Saqib Farooki Reboredo and James Ifill have been named survey scripters; and Anders Aarstad and Marijn de Visser have joined in panel support roles.
Bartlesville, Okla.-based research firm On-Line Communications has named Jeff Forgey director finance and promoted Christy Ruegamer to project manager.
Merrill Dubrow has been named president and CEO of M/A/R/C Research, Dallas.
Sigma: Research Management Group, Cincinnati has named Ward Lamphere senior research executive.
North Chelmsford, Mass., publishing firm Courier Corporation has added Susan L. Wagner, vice president of marketing research for the Gillette Company, to its board of directors.
Loula Zaklama, president and CEO of Egypt-based Rada Research and Public Relations, has received the Special Achievement Award from the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt.
New York research firm Ziment has named Andrew Scott as managing director of Ziment Europe. In addition, Andrea Manemann has been named manager of client service for Ziment, based in Stuttgart.
Avon Products, Inc., New York, has named Elizabeth A. Smith executive vice president and brand president, effective January 1, 2005. Marketing research will be among her new responsibilities.
DoubleClick Inc., New York, has named Keith Jones as managing director of its Abacus Europe unit.
Synovate has appointed Miranda Cheung managing director of the Singapore office.
Sue Wheeler has joined as general manager of the business-to-business (B2B) department and Reza Chady has been named general manager of the technology department in the newly formed custom research division of U.K-based GfK Martin Hamblin. Both have also been appointed to the GfK Martin Hamblin board.
META Group, Inc., Stamford, Conn., announced that Monte Ford has resigned as a member of the firm’s board of directors to focus his time and energy on his work at American Airlines.
Paris-based Ipsos Group has named Pierre Le Mahn as chairman and CEO of Ipsos Europe. This appointment follows Jean-Michel Carlo’s decision to leave Ipsos and to resume his career in the communication industry.
Evanston, Ill.-based Solucient has named Charlene Bonvissuto as senior vice president, customer service.