Nielsen has appointed Naobumi Otaki as sales director, Japan.

Media measurement, data and analytics company DoubleVerify has appointed Lisa Mahfud as business director, Netherlands and Daniele Maccarrona as business director, Italy. 

Data collection company Norstat has appointed Marc Leimann as managing director, Germany, effective January 1, 2024.   

ResTech company Livepanel has appointed Ben Leet as strategic advisor. 

Research company Altiant has appointed Meryam Schneider as chief marketing officer and Lyndsey Denyer as VP, client services.

Brand and campaign tracking firm Delineate has appointed Netzica Reyes as client insight director and Andy Davies as associate client director.

Market research solutions provider The Logit Group has appointed Steve Male as EVP, innovation and strategic partnerships.

Search intelligence platform Captify has appointed James Jones as chief marketing officer and John Piontkowski as president, North America. 

Veridata Insights has appointed Heidi Palacios as project manager, global qualitative solutions.

Digital marketing agency Brainlabs has appointed Agnieszka Kosik as CEO, Poland. 

Health care and life science insights provider Apollo Intelligence has appointed Susan Young as chief financial officer.

The National Centre for Social Research has appointed Molly Schultz Hafid to its international advisory board.

Consumer data company Wavemaker has appointed Chris Worsley as global performance lead.

Swift Research has appointed Kelly Marshall as fieldwork executive, Beth Waterhouse and Beth Marshall as graduate data executives, Lauren McMahon and Jessica Head as graduate research executives, Oliver Gibson as research manager and Julie Newson as finance assistant. 

Unimrkt Research has appointed Princy Kushwaha, Muskan Sharma, Muskan Garg, Akshit Rana, Vidushi Yadav and Ravi Ranjan as research associates and Gourav Goel as junior analyst, data quality.

The Advertising Research Foundation has appointed Tom Lynch as director, programs and development, ARF WIDE.

Insights consultancy Shapiro+Raj has appointed Geneva Taylor as director, data analytics and insights.

Consumer insights platform Getwizer has appointed Bruce Friend as CEO.  
 
MediaSense has appointed Matthew Gardner as chief operating officer.

American Directions Research Group has appointed Kevin M. Kelly as CEO and to its board of directors. 

Customer research platform Dovetail has appointed Kate Andrews as head, technology, Sara Caldwell as head, customer experience, Tom Mansfield as head, marketing and Pirow Cronje as head, operations.  

Insights company UserTesting has appointed Jamie Anderson as chief revenue officer.  
 
Insights platform Ideally has appointed Simon Gawn as head, Australia.

Kantar Australia has appointed Colin MacArthur and Mark Kennedy as joint managing partners, consulting.

ThinkAnalytics has appointed Bill Creighton to VP, president, sales and Matt Pagen to its ThinkAdvertising team. 

Insights technology and panel provider Toluna has appointed Angela Morgans as chief commercial officer, Europe, Rebecca Dreicon as managing director, Latin America, Michael Dawson as managing director, market research and consultancy, Michelle de Montigny as EVP, global key accounts, Mark van der Pols as EVP, business finance and Paul Hambly as head, supply. 

Thinks Insight & Strategy has appointed Andrew Johnson as partner, Paul Carroll and Jonny Harper as directors, Eoin Campbell as associate director and Lucy Keartland as research lead.  

Social listening consultancy Bakamo.Social has appointed Ipsita Bandyopadhyay as research director. 

Marketing research firm Breakthrough Research Inc. has promoted John Stern to director, design.  

Market analytics solutions company TalentNeuron has hired Bijoy Verghese as chief financial officer, Jason Roberts as chief operating officer and David Wilkins as VP, marketing.
 
Ipsos has appointed Eleni Nicholas as chief client officer.

AI and data company Virtualitics has appointed Cynthia Rapp to its board of advisors.

Insights platform QualSights has appointed Kyle Parker as sales director and Deepak Taluja as growth marketing manager.  

Customer experience management solutions provider TotalCX has appointed Jennifer Sanford as acting chief marketing officer and consultant.

Data and analytics firm Annalect has appointed Lauren Walker as chief client solutions officer.

Thinks Insight & Strategy has promoted Jon Edwards to director. 

TV measurement company iSpot has hired David Coletti as VP, sports research and insights.

Digital transformation consultancy Kin + Carta has appointed Nick Curran as director, business development.   

Research agency Opinium has appointed Reece Norbury as junior project manager.

Data streaming and messaging solutions company DiffusionData has appointed Neil Seymour as chief operating officer.

Research firm The Martec Group has hired Beth Heiss as business development executive.   

Space Doctors, part of Human8, has appointed Gareth Lewis, head of insight, and Cato Hunt, head of innovation and creative strategy, to lead the company in 2024 as Co-Founder and Managing Director Fiona McNae steps down from the role.   

Consumer insights platform Prodege has appointed James Parent as senior director, sales.

Touchstone Research has promoted Sabrina Bokros to project director II.

CX software company Zendesk has appointed Kelly Grier to its board of directors.  

Research incentives platform Ayda has appointed Ben Leet as fractional CFOO, Susie Spencer as digital product design consultant and Laura Lilienthal as fractional CMO.

Consumer intelligence company NIQ has appointed Kris Ewing as global president, consumer panel services.

Insights firm PublicRelay has hired Anu George as chief operating officer and Ryan Smith as SVP, insights. 

Post Consumer Brands has appointed Stephen Griffiths as director, insights and strategy. 

Consumer insights company RealityMine has appointed Graham Dean as chief AI officer and has promoted Ewan Leith to chief technology officer.  

The Marketing Science Institute, a division of the Advertising Research Foundation, has appointed Tulin Erdem as its next academic executive director. The two-year term will begin on July 1, 2024.   

Marketing company Stagwell has promoted Elspeth Rollert to CEO, Stagwell Marketing Cloud.  

Ipsos has appointed Lauren Donato as account manager.  

Werk Insight has promoted Morgan Goebel to research manager.
 
Dig Insights has appointed Kelly Nielsen as VP, enterprise expansion.   

Ipsos India has appointed Unni Hariharan as executive director, tech and e-commerce.

Advertising measurement platform Innovid has appointed Dani Cushion as chief marketing officer.

Insights company QualSights has appointed Eric Cruz as director, sales operations.

Customer experience agency Great State has appointed Jinny Mitchell-Kent and David Chandler as joint managing directors.

Thinks Insight & Strategy has promoted Aleena Numaan to senior research executive.

Insights consultancy VERVE has appointed Karol Kulesza as research manager.