Kapuler Marketing Research Inc., Arlington Heights, Ill., has made the following appointments and promotions: Wynne Corson has joined as a vice president in the client services group; Hung (Matt) Le has been promoted to MIS director; Edward Hibsch has been promoted to data processing manger; Sharon Swanson has been promoted to associate group manager; and Kathy Dalsaso, Laura Hopkins, Jane Martsinovsky and Samantha Phillips were promoted to associate project directors.
J. Edward Shrawder has been elected a director of Total Research Corp., based in Princeton, N. J. Shrawder is a former president of Elrick and Lavidge and has led his own marketing and marketing research consultancy since 1992. He was a director of CASRO in 1990-91, and is currently a member-speaker of the American Marketing Association.
Grace Chin has joined Asian Perspective Inc. as project manager.
Joe Bailey has been appointed vice president of sales and marketing at Market Pulse, Cambridge, Mass. He will oversee all domestic sales and marketing functions of the company.
Neil Blefeld has been promoted to president and Michael Feldman to executive vice president at Philadelphia-based RSVP/Research Services, formerly known as RSVP/Interviewing Services. Blefeld and Feldman will assume joint responsibility for management of the company. Gerald Feldman has assumed the newly created position of chairman and will serve in an advisory capacity.
Peter Daboll has been named general manager of Chicago-based Information Resources Inc., Canadian information services operation. In this newly created position, Daboll will be responsible for developing, marketing and servicing IRI's database services in Canada.
Lorna Opatow, president of New York-based Opatow Associates, has been elected to the board of Caravan Institute. Caravan Institute is a nonprofit organization founded in 1929 to promote education and the arts.
Marilyn Mitchell, Ph.D., has joined Hispanic Market Connections Inc., Los Altos, Calif., as vice president.
Jerry Ohlsten has been named director of marketing at Simmons Market Research Bureau, New York/Chicago. Cindy Steinbach, vice president, customer/microcomputer services has added the title of product manager for the firm's Choices II package. Hugh Curley has joined the company as senior account manager, Julie Michaelson has joined the Chicago office as junior account manager, and Karen Fusco has been promoted to senior account manager, Midwest region.
Edwin Batson has joined Interviewing Service of America, Van Nuys, Calif., as director of analytical services.
Paul Seever has been named to write Market: Basket, a new publication that follows global trends in purchasing. Seever is principal in Global Business Opportunities, Pound Ridge, N.Y. The publication is a joint venture of Global Business Opportunities and W-Two Publications Ltd., Ithaca, N.Y.
Carl Ackerman has been named corporate controller at Scelba, Scelba, DeTitta & Wolfson, Montville, N.J. He will be responsible for the internal financial functions of the firm, and will help provide financial expertise to client programs, budgeting, feasibility studies and return on investment analysis.
Clarice Irwin has been named chief executive officer of Irwin Research Services Inc., Jacksonville, Fla. Irwin is a founder of the firm. Scott Irwin has assumed the presidency of the firm and announced the following appointments: Kathryn Blackburn, vice president/director of qualitative research; Denise Henry, vice president/director of telephone operations; and Teresa Ray, vice president/director of mall research.
John Leggett has joined Parkwood Research Associates, Allentown, Pa., as project director. In his new position, Leggett will guide the execution of the firm's research projects, including survey design, implementation and evaluation.
Thomas Neri has joined Custom Research Inc.'s east coast office in Ridgewood, N.J. He will serve as vice president and will handle a full line of research service for CRI clients.
Maureen Brannan Gillespie has been promoted to research manager in the TEC Group at Chilton Research Services, based in Radnor, Pa. In her new position, Gillespie will be responsible for the design, scheduling, implementation and administration of telecommunications research projects. She will also provide sales support to TEC research consultants and leadership to the study direction team. William Augustyn has been promoted to research consultant at Chilton Research Services. In this position, he is responsible for the sales, design and execution of consumer and business service studies and customer satisfaction research projects as well as the presentation of research results and recommendations.
Craig Miller and Steven Buchholz have joined Advanced Data Research Inc., Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Miller has been named sales and marketing manager; Buchholz has been named consulting service manager.