In Memoriam...
Jean-Marc Lech, co-president of Ipsos, passed away on December 2 in Paris. He started his career in 1970 at the Institut Franais d’Opinion Publique where he became CEO in 1980. In 1982, he joined Ipsos as co-president alongside Didier Truchot, the company’s founder.
Telstra, an Australian telecommunications company, has named Joe Pollard as group managing director, Telstra media and marketing.
Julian Kenway has joined London research firm SPA Future Thinking as commercial director.
M3 Global Research, Washington, D.C., has appointed Roni DasGupta as president of market research, Americas. Also, Anton Richter was promoted to managing director of market research, Europe.
In Melbourne, Australia, Roy Morgan Research has appointed Hugh Amoyal as its deputy CEO and promoted Howard Seccombe to chief digital officer.
Newcastle, U.K., research firm Explain has hired Kat Allen as market research executive and Rhonda Winskill and Michael Spink as market research assistants.
Rachel Epley has joined Epley Research & Consulting, North Liberty, Iowa, as a partner.
London marketing company Ebiquity has appointed Julie Baddeley and Tom Alexander to its board as non-executive directors.
The Toronto office of Ipsos UU, the qualitative research arm of Ipsos Marketing, has hired Gayle Lunn as vice president and Christian Arambulo as director.
Intellishop, a research firm in Perrysburg, Ohio, has named Steve Connelly as vice president, client operations.
Research by Design, Birmingham, U.K., has hired Tracey Downes as a senior market research executive.
Allie Kline, chief marketing officer for AOL Platforms, has been promoted to CMO for all of AOL operations, headquartered in New York.
Informate Mobile Intelligence, Mumbai, India, has appointed Will Hodgman as CEO. The company plans to move to new global headquarters in Seattle.
MWW, a New York public relations firms, has promoted Marisa Conway to vice president, technology.
Deepak Singh has assumed the newly created role of executive director and head of Ipsos marketing in India. He will be based in the Bengaluru office.
Ben Sargeant has been promoted to managing director for Portsmouth, U.K., mystery shopping firm Douglas Stafford.
Xaxis, the New York audience profiling and targeting division of WPP, has named Mickey Zhang as managing director in China.
The British Marine Federation, a trade association based in Surrey, U.K., has hired Alastair Wilson as head of its statistics and market research service.
Giles Finnemore has been named as the chair of AURA, the London-based networking forum for client-side insight professionals.
Assembly, a New York marketing firm, has hired Paul Beck as executive vice president, director of strategic services.
U.K. research company Simpson Carpenter has appointed Weiwei Yang as senior research manager in its pharmaceutical division and Charlotte Donald as research executive on the major studies team. Paul Roberts has joined as digital director.
Pam Maltby has joined Research Now, Plano, Texas, as senior vice president of client development.
Greg Heist has been promoted to chief innovation officer of Gongos Inc., an Auburn Hills, Mich., research firm.
Targetbase, a Dallas marketing company, has hired Manny Mattos as vice president, new business development.
Marcia Kalfas has joined Barlow Research Associates Inc., Minneapolis, as client engagement executive, with responsibilities for new business development.
Toronto-based Engagement Labs has appointed Bryan Segal as CEO, replacing founder Paul Allard, who will assume the role of chief innovation officer.
EDigitalResearch, Southampton, U.K., has hired Liz Ratcliffe as product manager in its product marketing division.
Westport, Conn., research firm Critical Mix has appointed Kevin Orians as head of its customer care team.
James Llewellyn has joined Nuremberg, Germany, research company the GfK Group as its UK head of shopper.
At the London office of uSamp, a research firm headquartered in Encino, Calif., Will Boyd and Richard Merrick have been promoted to sales director and Rahul Krishna has been promoted to senior account director. Martin Schmidt has joined the uSamp Frankfurt, Germany, office as account director.
Enfield, U.K., retailer Tesco has promoted Robin Terrell to head of customer.
Bruce Goerlich, chief research officer at New York researcher Rentrak, was elected to the Advertising Research Foundation’s board of directors in New York.
Red Hill, U.K., sensory research firm product perceptions has promoted Simon Howitt to senior associate director and Tammy Sykes to senior research executive. Denise Bedford joined the firm hired as a senior research executive.
London researcher The Sound has hired Caroline Noon as research director.
London-based Millward Brown Vermeer, the market strategy division of Millward Brown, has appointed Patrick Fry as director for Australia and New Zealand.
London researcher and pollster ComRes has promoted Tom Clarkston to research team leader. Rob Melville has joined the company as research team leader in charge of FMCG and food and beverage. In addition, Aahad Ali, Ross Graham, Josie Warner and Moritz Reinsch were hired as consultants.
In London, the Guardian News and Media has appointed Charlotte Putnam as audience director. She will be responsible for commercial insight, consumer insight and primary research.
Think Now Research, Burbank, Calif., has added Heather Scrittorale and Greg DeLacy to the business development team.
M3 Global Research, Washington, D.C., has promoted Michael Wildt to head of sales and Jim Anderson to senior vice-president of sales operations.
Lightspeed, a Warren, N.J., research firm, has appointed David Bilicic as vice president of business development.
Kary Ball has joined Midwest Video, Troy, Mich., as its chief technology officer, responsible for development of on-site technologies, the M-Stream video streaming platform and the M-Groups online focus group service.
In Cincinnati, MarketVision Research has hired Mary Ellen Motyl as a research manager on the qualitative client services team.
Patrick Arminio has joined Quester, a Windsor Heights, Iowa, research company as vice president of client services.
Innovate, a research firm headquartered in Encino, Calif., has hired Vanessa Carey as senior vice president of global account management and has promoted Amanda Keller to vice president of global client services and Jason Poyser to director of account management. The company has also opened an office in Gurgaon, India.
Christine Dalzell was named vice president of U.S. research at HRW, a London health care research firm.
Prodege MR, a new division of the Prodege research company specializing in sampling and based in El Segundo, Calif., has hired Kris Tarbet as vice president of sales and Daniel Ross as vice president, product management. Dave Gaston joined parent company Prodege as vice president, sales.
In London, ResearchBods has hired Louis Davies as client services director, Shannon Berry as public relations and marketing manager and Benjamin Pelc to the project management team.
Rana Baroud and Anna Fair have joined Chrysalis Research, Bristol, U.K., as research managers.
Sharon White will be promoted to CEO at Ofcom, the U.K. communications regulator in London, effective late March.
Serena Jacob has joined Singapore-based TNS Qualitative in Asia Pacific as managing director.
Infotools has appointed Amanda Boote as business development director for Infotools Europe. She will be based in the London office. Also, Jonathan Bear has been promoted to managing director of Infotools Seattle.
London researcher Hall & Partners has promoted Kelly Mitchell and Bridget Brennan to partner level. Both are based in the firm’s Chicago office.
Rocket Fuel, a Redwood City, Calif., marketing firm specializing in artificial intelligence, has hired Manu Thapar for the newly created position of senior vice president of research and development.