Paul E. Green, professor emeritus of marketing in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, died in September at age 85. Prior to joining the marketing department faculty in 1961, Green held multiple positions as a statistician and research analyst.
Jim Spring, founder of Leisure Trends Group, a Boulder, Colo., research company, died in October at age 75.
Bob Michaels, former radio programming and ratings consultant at Columbia, Md., research company Arbitron Inc., died in October at age 54.
Seymour “Sy” Lieberman, longtime research consultant for the American Cancer Society, died in October at age 86.
Ann L. Urban, founder of Greater Pittsburgh Research, Pittsburgh, died in October at age 70.
Netflix, Los Gatos, Calif., has appointed Adrien Lanusse as vice president, consumer insights, and Dave Decelle as director, consumer insights.
Charles Guarino has been promoted to senior vice president and director of marketing for Five Star Bank, Warsaw, N.Y. Research will be among his responsibilities.
Phoenix research consulting company Cambiar has hired Peter Milla as associate.
Ryan Harrivan, Frank Forney and Jake Wolff have been hired as director, client development, at Stockholm, Sweden, research company Cint’s U.S. team. Cint has also promoted Susan Dickman to director, client development. Additionally, Erin Vreeland has joined Cint’s U.S. team as associate project manager.
Paul Gondek has joined Atlanta research company CMI as health care lead and vice president, client solutions.
Bob Domine, founder and chairman of Digital Research Inc., Kennebunk, Maine, has assumed responsibility for day-to-day operations of the company.
Matt Gershner has joined Bangalore, India, research company Borderless Access as vice president, sales, East Coast.
The Futures Company, a Chapel Hill, N.C., research company, has hired Lee Shupp as senior vice president.
Illumination Research, Mason, Ohio, has named Jennifer Holt director, marketing and new business development, and Heather Smith director, insight strategy.
Vancouver, B.C., research company Vision Critical has appointed Scott Miller as group CEO. Additionally, Vision Critical has hired Aaron Paquette as executive vice president, TV and film, and Gateley Meeker as vice president, TV. Paquette and Meeker will be based in the company’s Los Angeles office.
Andrea Durning has joined Bellomy Research, Winston-Salem, N.C., as vice president, shopper insights.
Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., research company SHC Direct has named Debbie Ramsay president, business development.
Jim Hornor has joined Portland, Ore., research company Revelation Inc. as lead methodologist.
Valient Market Research, Rochester, N.Y., has appointed Emily Eberhardt as vice president, business development. Eberhardt will be based at the company’s Buffalo, N.Y., office.
Insight Strategy Group, a New York research company, has named Philip Underwood manager and Sarah Gardiner director.
George Llorens has been promoted to executive vice president and global head of sales at Encino, Calif., research company uSamp.
New York research company Ipsos MediaCT has named Jon Greenwood president.
Leslie Townsend, president of Kinesis Survey Technologies LLC, Austin, Texas, has been appointed to the TrueSample Quality Council. TrueSample, a division of Palo Alto, Calif., survey software company SurveyMonkey, established the Quality Council to drive data quality standards and best practices across the research industry.
Fairfield, Conn., research company Kantar Health has named Gary J. Gatyas Jr. senior vice president, global marketing and communications, and Louise Tamblin group director.
Schlesinger Associates, an Iselin, N.J., research company, has hired Bridget Bachmann and Simona Kats as director, client development. Separately, Schlesinger Associates has appointed Laura Haxton-Wilde as managing director, The Research House. Haxton-Wilde will oversee the company’s operations in the U.K.
Gregory Mishkin has joined Livonia, Mich., research company Market Strategies International as a vice president, research and consulting.
Phoenix Marketing International, a Rhinebeck, N.Y., research company, has appointed Susan Cornish as vice president. Cornish will be based in its Somerset, N.J. and Atlanta offices.
Integrated Research Associates, Cincinnati, has promoted Brian Poore to vice president.
London research company E-Tabs has named Mathew Francis global director, consultancy.
Abt Associates, a Bethesda, Md., research company, has appointed Mary Joel Holin as division vice president, social and economic policy, and Christopher Lovelace as principal associate, international health.
Misha Tsvelik has been promoted to director, research operations, at EasyInsites, a Surrey, U.K., research company.
Michael Greene has been named director, research and marketing strategy, at New York digital marketing technology company AudienceScience.
Three Group Research, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., has hired Juli Denike as director, partner relationships, and Adam Turner as senior vice president, advanced analytics.
Bruno Paro, managing director of Netquest Brasil, has been appointed counselor of Sao Paolo, Brazil, research association the Associação Brasileira de Empresas de Pesquisa’s board of governors.
London research company BrainJuicer Group PLC has appointed Rodolphe Jounot as country director, France. Jounot will be based in Paris.
Dan Goldstein has joined San Marino, Calif., research company DB5 as chief strategy officer.
Cincinnati research company dunnhumbyUSA has promoted Justin Petty, Eric Grau, Nancy Hudak and Anthony Kilili to vice president.
The Research Partnership, London, has appointed Claire Richardson as director of its U.S. office in Philadelphia.