Tom Adamski, CEO of digital agency Razorfish Global, died in October at age 43.
Louisville, Ky., firm Thoroughbred Research Group has appointed Jeff Samulowitz as director of research, working specifically with the health care team.
Knoxville, Tenn., media company Scripps Networks Interactive has appointed Shannon Jamieson Driver as senior vice president of network marketing and creative services and Gabriel Gordon as vice president of network research.
BBC Worldwide, the main commercial arm of London-based BBC, has appointed Jaclyn Lee-Joe as its new CMO.
London-based research consultancy TNS has appointed Anne Rayner as global head of communications research. She will be based in Sydney.
The International Institute for Analytics, Portland, Ore., has named Daniel Magestro as its vice president and research director.
Andrew Parece has rejoined Boston management consulting firm Charles River Associates as vice president in the Life Sciences Practice. Additionally, John Cole and Alex Silver have joined the practice in London and Boston, respectively.
London marketing analytics firm Ebiquity has appointed Michael Karg as group CEO.
U.K. research agency Join the Dots has appointed the following: Chris Haydon as senior research director; Benjamin Buckby as research manager and Justine Colin, Martina Raviele and James Collinson as senior research executives.
Portland, Ore., humanitarian group Mercy Corps has appointed Dara Royer as chief development and marketing officer.
Ivar Michaelsen has been appointed COO consumer experiences U.K., Nordics and Baltics for Nuremberg, Germany, research firm GfK.
London-based researcher Kantar has appointed Efrain Ribeiro as its chief research officer.
Denver-based researcher GutCheck has hired Renee Smith as chief research officer.
New York ad tech company Yieldbot has appointed Elissa Reiling-Gray as vice president of brand marketing and Veronica Mendoza as vice president of product marketing.
Starbucks Corp., Seattle, has hired Gerri Martin-Flickinger as its first chief technology officer.
QRCA, St. Paul, Minn., has elected its officers and directors for 2015-2016. The board is led by Monica Zinchiak, Z. Research Services, San Diego. Other members include: Manny Schrager, Consumer Centers of New York and New Jersey, Montclair, N.J., as vice president; Jay Zaltzman, Bureau West Research Group, Palm Springs, Calif., as treasurer; Corette Haf, Corporate Research Consultancy, Malmesbury, Province of the Western Cape, South Africa, as secretary; Daniel Berkal, the Palmerston Group, Toronto; Shaili Bhatt, C+R Research, Chicago; Kathleen Doyle, Doyle Research Associates Inc., Chicago; Tom Rich, Thomas M. Rich and Associates, Mountainside, N.J., and Laurie Tema-Lyn, Practical Imagination Enterprises, Ringoes, N.J.
Atlanta research and consulting firm CMI has appointed Alec Schendzelos as vice president of client services.
U.K. firm Explain Market Research has appointed the following: Alex Gates as marketing director; Sam Riley as a market research executive; and Anna Wiltshire as a market research assistant on a graduate trainee scheme.
Canada-based social media management firm Hootsuite has hired Penny Wilson as its CMO.
Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Inc., New York, has hired Dan Levi as the CMO for Clear Channel Outdoor Americas.
U.K. community panel provider Verve has opened a new office, Verve North, in Leeds, to be headed up by Bryony Hughes. The firm has also hired the following: Anthony Walton as senior research manager and Nancy Baum as research manager for the Chicago office; Alistair Shutt as research director, Alice Banfield as qualitative associate director, Reena Nemchand as qualitative research manager, Qasim Aziz and Pepe Lopez as Web designers and Louise Littleton as senior research executive for the London office and Andreea Stoian and Stefania Filimon as data executives for the Romania office.
New York technology company MediaMath has appointed Joanna O’Connell as its CMO.
Iselin, N.J.-based researcher Schlesinger Associates has appointed AJ Shaw as vice president, qualitative solutions for Schlesinger Philadelphia. Patti McComb has also been promoted to operations manager for Philadelphia.
Kurt Knapton, president and CEO of Plano, Texas-based Research Now, has resigned. The company’s press release specified that Knapton has increasingly felt the need to be present with his father, who is battling ALS. Knapton will remain on the board of directors following the identification of and transition to his successor.
Nuremberg, Germany, firm GfK has appointed James Howitt as digital lead, U.K.
Scott Ernst has been appointed CEO of Tokyo-based research firm Macromill.
Matthew Jauchius is joining Estero, Fla., car rental company Hertz Global Holdings Inc. as executive vice president and CMO.
New York research firm SHC Universal has promoted Hilary Fischer to chief revenue and strategy officer and Sal Brucculeri to executive vice president of client relationships and sales management. The firm has also appointed David Katz as senior vice president of client relationships and Laurie Shapiro as vice president of client relationships.
Milwaukee-based research and consulting firm Market Probe has appointed Dennis Syrkowski as executive vice president.
FocusVision, a Stamford, Conn., research technology firm, has appointed the following to its business development and sales team: Ivelina D. Popova; Valentina Bonazzi as associate business development director based in Singapore; Sidharth Dhawan as business development director, APAC, based in Singapore; Petar Dzhindzhev, Eleonora Georgieva, Jason Ruiz, Milan Stoichkov and Teddy Walter as business development director.
U.K. firm eDigitalResearch has promoted Steve Brockway to managing director and Nada Gillard and Liz Boffey to the board of directors as chief product officer and chief delivery officer, respectively.
Palo Alto, Calif., firm SurveyMonkey has appointed Mark Blumenthal as head of election polling. He will be based in Washington, D.C.
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, N.C., has named Robert J. Gfeller, Jr. as vice president of communications, marketing and media and CMO.
Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, Culver City, Calif., has appointed Louise Chater as executive vice president of international strategy and research.
Pizza chain Papa Murphy’s Holdings Inc., Vancouver, Wash., has appointed Brandon Solano as its new CMO.
Chicago branding and marketing firm VSA Partners has appointed its newest associate partner, Executive Creative Director Chris Cancilla.
Jake Steadman, director of international research at Twitter, has joined the MRS Delphi Group, a think tank set up by the Market Research Society.
Culver City, Calif., research consultancy Kelton Global has hired Brett Davis as its first COO.
San Antonio-based marketing services agency Harte Hanks has appointed Frank Grillo as its CMO.
MFour Mobile Research, Costa Mesa, Calif., has hired Jeannette Ceballos as solutions development representative, William Harp as talent acquisition manager, Caitlyn Sorich as an operations analyst and Irene Manahan as senior research consultant.
U.K. digital marketing firm Blueclaw has appointed the following: Nadia Mursal as client services manager; Kay Brown as content and online PR manager and Laurie Garrison as marketing manager.
New York-based media services agency Horizon Media has hired Michelle Gordon as vice president, director of consumer insights in the agency’s WHY Group.
Lieberman Research Worldwide, Los Angeles, has named Stephen Palacios as vice president and general manager.
Fishkill, N.Y., incentives solutions company Virtual Incentives has hired Michelle Andre as its vice president of marketing. She will be based in the company’s new West Coast office in Oregon.
New York research firm SHC Universal has appointed Matt Walmsley as senior vice president of new product development and Niraj Patel as senior director of its London office.
Reston, Va., research-led consulting firm Heart+Mind Strategies has appointed Maury Giles as systems and decision mapping practice leader.
Framingham, Mass., research and consulting firm IDC Financial Insights has appointed Bill Fearnley Jr. as research director.