Robert H. Steinfeld, senior vice president, tax and corporate development, has been named senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary at IMS Health, a Westport, Conn., health care information firm.
Lynd Bacon has joined Menlo Park, Calif., marketing information firm Knowledge Networks as senior vice president and chief scientist. In addition, Suzanne DuFore has been named vice president and managing director of custom research, Melinda Smith de Borrero has been named vice president and managing director of marketing science, and Jay Mattlin has been named vice president for media planning research.
Galloway Research Service, San Antonio, Texas, has named Carlos Jáuregui research group department director.
Coinciding with the acquisition of Footwear Market Insights (FMI), a Nashville, Tenn., syndicated consumer purchase information company, by NPD ShoeBiz, the footwear tracking unit of Port Washington, N.Y., marketing information provider the NPD Group, Inc., Michael J. Kormos, president and founder of FMI, will join the NPD ShoeBiz team. NPD ShoeBiz and Kormos will build on NPD’s footwear point-of-sale (POS) service and newly launched consumer tracking service.
The Marketing Research Association, Rocky Hill, Conn., has named Marry Rotblatt operations director.
Wilton, Conn.-based research firm Greenfield Online has named Rick Allen senior vice president for global client development.
SPSS Inc., Chicago, has named Sarah E. Mattingly director of partner alliances for the North American public sector business unit.
Josh S. Weston, honorary chairman of Automatic Data Processing, Inc., has been elected to the board of directors of Aegis Communications Group, Inc., an Irving, Texas CRM and research firm.
Chicago-based SPSS MR has named Jim Whaley national sales manager for North America.
Opinion Research Corporation, Princeton, N.J., has added three new independent directors to its board of directors. Joining the board are Seth J. Lehr, partner of LLR Equity Partners, L.P.; John J. Gavin, president and COO of Right Management Consultants, Inc.; and James A. Bulvanoski, CEO of SPT Electric. Including these new members, Opinion Research now has nine members on its board of directors.
New York-based Marketinglnfo.com Inc., an online market research informarion source, has appointed Ernest von Simson to its board of directors. He is senior partner of Cassius Advisors, a consulting firm.
James Velayas has been named vice president of marketing research at Porchey Research, St. Louis.
The Arbitron Company, New York, has appointed Troy Howard national accounts manager for advertiser/agency services. In addition: Cathy Kaufman has been named account manager for advertiser/agency services in Atlanta; Lovlyn Corbett has been named account managerfor Eastern advertiser/agency services; Michael Hopkins has been promoted to advertiser/agency manager for webcast ratings; and Ed Cohen has been promoted to vice president, domestic radio research.
Dale Watt has joined Market Probe, Inc., Milwaukee, as vice president and branch manager of the firm’s Atlanta office.