London researcher Sparkler has hired Ed Greggs as associate partner and Marielle Cottee as a senior consultant.
Amanda Phillips has joined research firm Millward Brown as head of sales and marketing in the U.K.
The board of directors for the Ad Council, New York, has hired Lisa Sherman as president and CEO.
Dawn Hudson is the new chief marketing officer for the National Football League, New York.
Almac Group, a pharmaceutical firm in Craigavon, Northern Ireland, has created two new positions to expand its global marketing team. Matt Cocking has been hired as market development director for the clinical technologies business unit and Laura Montgomery will serve as the senior market insight director.
Gurgaon, India, researcher Annik has appointed Lata Iyer as senior vice president, research and analytics.
Suzanne Costa has joined Verve, a Toronto research firm, as senior vice president of operations. Also, Jack Lee has been hired as senior community manager and Megan Wardley as community manager.
Terri Sorenson has been appointed as senior project coordinator at Dub, a Saskatoon, Canada, research firm.
In Cincinnati, Directions Research Inc. has hired Betsy Sutherland as senior vice president of client service and named Kacie Liederbach and Mike McCormick as account manager.
Stockholm research software company Cint has appointed Hanna Jahnstedt as its CFO.
EurotaxGlass, a London automotive intelligence specialist, has appointed Lindsey Roberts as CEO.
Catalytics Performance Consulting, a Philadelphia management firm, has appointed Steve Aukers as senior catalyst.
In Cincinnati, MarketVision Research has promoted Stephen Cox to research manager.
New York researcher KJT Group has appointed David Luery as managing director, global research.
Paris research company Ipsos has hired Jake Dorn as senior vice president, chief client director for Microsoft.
Facts International, a Tonbridge, U.K., research company, has added Ellie Osborne as associate director, Kirsty Bridgland as senior research executive, Cindy Ramnath as learning and development advisor and Dawn Chapman as client services executive.
Kailash Nagdev has joined London researcher YouGov as managing director of its research services in Dubai.
San Francisco Internet firm Krux has appointed Yacov Salomon to lead its global data science development. He will work from their Sydney office.
Michael Chavvaria has joined SoapBoxSample, a Los Angeles researcher, as director of business development.
In Cincinnati, Ryan Hardesty has joined MarketVision Research as a research manager.
Infotools, a New Zealand marketing firm, has promoted Chris Spence to lead the company’s global sales team and marketing initiatives and hired Horst Feldhaeuser as global client director.
Dean Burnett has been appointed as senior director, global panel and sampling operations, for researcher uSamp. Encino, Calif. In addition, the firm promoted Andy Jolls to chief marketing officer.
Alexis Schultz has joined Op4G, a Portsmouth, N.H., researcher, as senior director of client development. She will be based in the Connecticut office.
London staffing firm Hasson Associates has appointed Beatrice Zornek as an associate and Aileen Ryan as office manager.
Chelsea Gibbons, a qualitative director at Denver researcher iModerate, was awarded a Young Professionals Grant by the Qualitative Research Consultants Association, allowing her to attend the QRCA annual conference in October free of charge.
Kenneth Bohlin, president and CEO of Informa Financial Information, London, and Informa USA, will retire at the end of the year.
EMI Research Solutions, Cincinnati, has named Janet Miller as sales and business development consultant.
Anthony Buzzanca has joined the sensory research department of Denver-based Ingather Research and Sensory.
Matt Campion, executive vice president at South Iselin, N.J., research firm Schlesinger Associates, received the Pharmaceutical Market Research Group R.R. Fordyce award, recognizing a member dedicated to the betterment of the industry.
Shelly Berg has joined GfK’s Retail and Technology team in the U.K. as senior vice president.
Effective Measure, a Melbourne, Australia, Internet company, has appointed Graham Plant as CEO.
Darlene Lee has joined the New York office of researcher Penn Schoen Berland in the newly created role of senior vice president.
AudienceScience, a Bellevue, Wash., researcher has hired Danny Kim as director of innovation.
The Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA), Chicago, inducted Dave Balter, founder of BzzAgent, Pete Blackshaw, global head of digital and social media, Nestle, and Ed Keller, CEO and co-founder of the Keller Fay Group, into its Hall of Fame in November at WOMMA’s Summit inHollywood, Calif.
John Pflum has joined 20|20 Research, Nashville, as vice president of accounting and finance.
Cincinnati researcher Burke, Inc., promoted John Thomas to managing director, Burke Healthcare.
Carlos Garavito has joined the Marketing Store, Chicago, as vice president, creative director. He will be based in Toronto.
Ian Dobson has joined British retailer Argos, Milton Keynes, U.K., as head of customer and market insight.
The Insight Centre for Data Analytics, a partnership between University College Dublin, the National University of Ireland at Galway, University College Cork, and Dublin City University, has appointed Oliver Daniels as CEO.
Roger Streight has joined Toronto researcher Asking Canadians as its director of custom solutions.
Joseph Kim has been appointed as director of client services at New-York based SIS International Research. He will be based in Seoul.
In Baldwinsville, N.Y., Research and Marketing Strategies has hired Heather Banks as a health care transformation coordinator.
Terri Gaughan has joined the E.W. Scripps Co., a Cincinnati media company, as director of loyalty and partnerships.
San Francisco software company Instagram has hired Marne Levine as its first chief operating officer.
Nika Kabiri has been appointed managing director of Ipsos MarketQuest in Seattle.
Research Rockstar, based in the Boston area, has hired Debra Mascott as director, curriculum development.
Los Angeles researcher SoapBoxSample has added Michael Sanders, senior developer, and Bradley Smagcz, Web programmer, to its technology department. Adriana Hemans has joined as marketing coordinator.
Elys Roberts has been promoted to president of Ipsos Marketing in the U.S. He is succeeded by Steve Girling as president of Ipsos Healthcare in the region.
Millward Brown has named Philip Dickinson as group head of its U.K. food and household client management team. He will be based in Warwick.
ResearchBods, Leeds, U.K., has hired Kelly Charles, Josh McGregor and Reuben Barker to its digital solutions and communities offering department. John Gould has also joined as part of the new business development team along with Emma Shah as a project executive.
Michael Schmall has joined the automotive team of Detroit researcher Morpace as vice president.
Alfred Moellenbeck, managing director of Euroforum, will retire at the end of the year. Euroforum is a subsidiary of London business intelligence firm Informa. Ann-Marie Brems will assume his duties.
In Washington, D.C., Michael Dimock has been named president of the Pew Research Center.
Crowd DNA, a London market research firm, has promoted Chris Haydon to insight and innovation director and Sarah Brierley to strategic initiatives director. Also, Claire Moon has been promoted to associate director.
TNS BMRB, the public sector division of Kantar, has appointed Keith Bolling as head of national and official statistics surveys and Gillian Prior as head of longitudinal studies.
Amanda Hirsch has joined Vital Findings, a Los Angeles research firm, as vice president.
London researcher Firefish has added Simon Gedman as an associate director along with five research executives, Ellie O’Dell, Anna Leggett, Posy Knightly-Brown, Tom Hayes and Toni Coker.
In New Orleans, software company Fulcrum has appointed Bob Ferro as executive director, client development.
Lindsay Pattison has been promoted to global CEO at New York marketing firm Maxus UK, a division of Group M.
Margaret Zabel will leave her role as CEO of the Communications Council, Sydney, Australia, at the end of December to become the vice president of marketing at McDonald’s.
Nick Collins has joined Emeryville, Calif.-based researcher Greenberg Strategy as its chief client officer.
In New York, Viacom has named Ross Martin to the newly created position of executive vice president, marketing strategy and engagement for Viacom Media Networks.
Josh Levin has joined New York marketing research start-up newlio as chief marketing officer and partner.
Asia Insight, a Singapore market research firm, has named Rebecca Chan as general manager. She will head the Shanghai office.
Legal consulting firm DecisionQuest has hired Daniel Wolfe as a senior vice president and Joan Jackson as business development manager, both in the Chicago office. At the south Florida office, Donna Browning has joined as a director and Marjorie Tinney as director of business development.
MSLGROUP, a subsidiary of New York-based Publicis Group, has appointed Benjamin Koe as regional director of strategic insight and impact. He will be based in Singapore.
Philadelphia researcher MRops has hired Chris Fabber as senior vice president sample solutions.
Albany, N.Y., research firm THREE has appointed Emily Graban as senior strategist. She will be based in the firm’s Raleigh-Durham, N.C. office
Charles Pearson has joined London research company Verve as senior vice president client development North America.
Luke Atkinson has been appointed by Smirnoff, London, as vice president of global consumer and cultural planning. He will be based in New York.
Cambridge, Mass., researcher IDTechEx has appointed Yasuo Yamamoto as head of business development in Japan.
New York researcher SIS has promoted Mandy Pan to general manager, APAC region, and hired Kevin Wang as vice president of operations, APAC region, and Jackie (JaLi) Huang as project analyst, APAC region. All are based in Shanghai. Janette Lavares and Jumelle Villamora have joined the firm as senior project manager in the Manila office and Joseph (Youngsun) Kim has been hired as director of client relations in the Seoul office.
In Atlanta, marketing researcher Bug Insights has hired Christopher Smith and John Rezac as senior consultant.
San Francisco, Internet company KISSmetrics has named Brian Kelly as CEO.
Paul Allen, executive vice president of business development at Olson Research, Yardley, Pa., was awarded the Pharmaceutical Market Research Group (PMRG) President’s award, designed to recognize a member who demonstrates long-term commitment to PMRG.
Neil Seeman, founder and CEO of RIWI Corp., received the Disruptive Innovator Award at the Market Research Event in Boca Raton, Fla., in October. The award is designed to recognize individuals who have acted as change agents and made significant contributions to harnessing disruptive innovation to promote research industry progress.
Kantar Health, based in New York, has hired five new staff for its Epsom, Surrey-based team. Hazel Haskayne joins as group director for qualitative practice, Jenny Maddock as a junior designer with the creative impact team, and Anna Tapson, Will Edgar and Rachel Dixon in the graduate program.
Barbara Gassaway, president of Observation Baltimore and the Research Group, received the 2014 Top 100 Minority Business Enterprise Award, honoring outstanding women and minority business owners in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware and the District of Columbia.
Matt Hill has been named research and planning director at Thinkbox, the marketing body for commercial TV in the U.K.
Baldwinsville, N.Y., research firm RMS Healthcare has added Heather Banks to its RMS Practice Transformation team.
The National Food Lab, Livermore, Calif., announced three promotions: Debbie Lohmeyer to senior vice president of consulting services; Julie Hill to senior vice president of lab services; and Wilfredo Ocasio to chief science officer of food safety.