Curtis P. Johnson has joined St. Louis-based Quality Controlled Services (QCS) client service office as an account representative. He will be based in Philadelphia. In addition, Kim Reale has joined QCS as a client services representative. She will be based in St. Louis.

Lynda Sanders has joined Eagle Research as sales, marketing & advertising account executive in the Denver office. In addition, Steven McDonald has joined the Atlanta office of Eagle Research as supervisor/facilities coordinator.

Boise, Idaho-based Clearwater Research has announced a number of hirings and promotions. In the Boise office, Craig King has been promoted to assistant study director; Jamie Holloway and Laura Botimer to data collection project coordinators; Margie Olson to data collection senior supervisor; and Sandra Snediker and Rebecca Needles to data collection project technical assistants. New hires at the Boise office include Heidi Aldous as research technical assistant, Sandra Lowe as data collection project coordinator, and David Hoffman as programmer. In the firm’s Council, Idaho, office, Kathy Merritt as been promoted to senior supervisor.

Jill Wynn has joined Taylor Nelson Sofres Intersearch, White Plains, N.Y., as senior vice president and head of the telecommunications business practice in the U.S.

RONIN Corporation has announced several appointments to its staffs in its Princeton and London offices. In Princeton, Anu Bhalla has been named vice president, research services; Kate Feather has been named senior research director; and Stacianne Wright has been named research manager. In London, Umma Kahn, Rafal Gajamowiez and Paul Donagher have joined the research staff. And Graeme Griffiths has been promoted to the research staff and Simon Winter has been promoted to RONIN Technologies as technical consultant.

At Harshaw Research Inc., Ottawa, Kan., Dale Ream has been promoted to vice president/general counsel and Thomas Brundage has been promoted to vice president/research & development.

Michael Ephron has been named account director at Roper Starch Worldwide, New York.

Knowledge Systems & Research, Syracuse, N.Y., has promoted Jeffery Horst to senior research associate and add Kristin Fischer as research analyst.

Charlene Trimmer has joined Information Resources, Inc., Chicago, as executive vice president for sales solutions.