In Great Neck, N.Y., Stuart Cohen has joined Lieberman and FRC as vice president, business development.
Members of the QRCA, St. Paul, Minn., have elected a board of directors for the 2018-2020 term. The board members include: Tom Rich as president; Kelly Heatly as vice president; Caroline Volpe as treasurer; Roben Allong as secretary; and Isabel Aneyba, Pam Goldfarb-Liss, Ilka Kuhagen, Janet Standen and Laurie Tema-Lyn as directors.
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), New York, has named Susan Hogan as senior vice president of research and measurement. She will be responsible for driving research initiatives and overseeing the IAB’s development of media measurement best practices and guidelines.
Stockholm-based software company Cint has announced four new hires and an internal promotion. In New York, hires include Katie Gross, senior vice president of sales, Americas; Andrew Harvey, vice president of sales, East Coast; and Marci DiGaetano, director of client development. In San Francisco, Lisa London has been hired as director of client development and Katie Nelson has been promoted to vice president of partner success and supply operations.
Brent Bernie, general manager of comScore Canada, will step down from the company effective Jan. 1, 2019. Bryan Segal, currently vice president of sales, will assume the general manager role.
Simmons Research, New York, has appointed Dana Sergenian as head of brand sales.
Sandie Sparkman has been appointed executive vice president, client solutions for Canada-based research firm Leger. In addition, five people have joined her client solutions and sales team: Laurent Maruani and Mickael Lavergne at the Montreal office; Amber Persad and Philip Skladowski at the Toronto office; and Pardeep Sharma for Leger’s American office in Philadelphia.
Denver-based company NextHealth Technologies has appointed Sonu Kansal as chief product officer.
Warren, N.J., researcher Lightspeed has added Jerrod Seaton as account executive. He will be based in Nashville.
Shopper Intelligence, a voice-of-the-shopper metrics company, has appointed Jason Smith to lead the growth of its U.S. business.
Branford, Conn., company Touchstone Research has promoted Kate Franzis to senior project director.
Canada-based company Explorer Research has appointed Jonathan Asher as executive vice president, based in Minneapolis.
Video technology company Voxpopme has appointed Jon Carbone as vice president of VideoCX, the company’s video-first customer experience solution.
Branford, Conn., company Touchstone Research has promoted Samantha Sproul to qualitative research manager to oversee the company’s online and mobile qualitative research division and Kyle Morrison to quantitative research manager to oversee the quantitative research division.
Nonprofit organization Market Research Institute International, Ann Arbor, Mich., has appointed Jeffrey Henning as executive director, effective Jan. 1, 2019. Henning replaces Reg Baker, who will retire on Dec. 31.
Toronto-based survey software company Q-Fi Solutions has appointed Dan Jackson as director of business development.
Encino, Calif., sampling company InnovateMR has hired Jill Bonnett as global panel recruitment director.
New York online sampling company OvationMR has appointed Michel Jones to the leadership team as general manager and people leader.
Panel company Verve has appointed Rich Preedy, Tim Martin, Paul Lawson and Anna Williams to its European executive team, while Ron Orgiefsky and Jon Allison will join Marie Patenio on the North American executive team. Additionally, Nick Baker has left the business for a new role.
Insight consultancy Firefish has appointed Westin Grabow as director in its U.S. office, based in Brooklyn, N.Y.
U.K. research company Maru Group has appointed Brian James as chief client officer and president of consumer goods and services for its portfolio company Maru/Matchbox.
U.K. consumer insight agency Join the Dots has appointed two senior hires at its headquarters in Manchester: Rory Corcoran as research director and Emily Goddard as associate director and project lead.
Newton, Mass., research software firm MarketSight has named Chris Modzelewski as chief executive officer. Modzelewski, who will also join the company’s board of directors, succeeds Michael DeNitto, who founded and served as CEO of the company.
Digital data collection company Lightspeed has promoted Siddhartha Dutta to managing director, Asia. Dutta will take overall responsibility for Singapore, India, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines.
Customer experience management firm Medallia Inc., San Mateo, Calif., has promoted Sophie Chesters to CMO.
Research America, Philadelphia, has created four vice presidential management positions and has appointed the following to fill them: Amy Benner as vice president of the Detroit office and head of the retail and restaurant insights team; Larry Durkin as vice president in Philadelphia, leading the firm’s health care insights team; Jim Whalen as vice president in Cincinnati, heading the consumer insights team; and Will Krieger as vice president in Cincinnati, leading the sales and marketing team.
IDC Financial Insights, Framingham, Mass., has appointed Rivka Little as research director, worldwide payment strategies, replacing James Wester, who will transition to lead analyst for IDC’s Worldwide Blockchain Strategies program.
GfK, Nuremberg, Germany, has appointed Olivier-Thomas Wade as vice president global retail management, responsible for developing the company’s global retail strategy.
Drive Research, based in Syracuse, N.Y., has promoted Emily Taylor to senior research analyst.
Kenneth Hamilton has joined Branford, Conn., company Touchstone Research as senior survey programmer.
Kantar Public, the public policy consulting division of London-based research company Kantar, has appointed Lucy Joyce as chief client officer for the U.K.
GfK MRI, New York, has named Maureen Doherty to the newly-created role of vice president of commercial data partnerships.
In London, customer data science company dunnhumby has made three appointments to its media business: Jérôme Cochet as global managing director for media; Julie Jeancolas as global head of media partnerships; and Alexandre Cotarmanac’h as global head of product media and customer engagement.
Costa Mesa, Calif., research company J.D. Power has hired Kyle Schmitt as managing director of its global insurance practice.
Santa Monica, Calif., music company Universal Music Group has appointed Jaime Weston as executive vice president of consumer marketing.