Audrey Palosaari has returned to C.J. Olson Market Research, Inc., Minneapolis, as an account executive. She was the firm’s vice president of interviewing from 1984 to 1987 before taking a sabbatical.
Kathy Nelson has been hired as a director in the Creative Services Group of Conway/Milliken & Associates, Chicago.
Simon Chadwick has relinquished his position as chief executive of Research International USA, New York, in order to devote full time to Winona Research, Phoenix. Both companies are members of WPP Group, London.
Jim Martel has joined the Agricultural Division of Maritz Marketing Research Inc., St. Louis, as an account manager. Dave Dixon has joined the firm’s Systems and Research Services Group as research manager. Linda LaGarce has joined the St. Louis office of the firm’s Performance Measurement Group as an account manager. Dr. James Stone has been promoted to director of European research. In his new position, he will head up Maritz Research, a marketing research division of Maritz Europa located in Marlow, England. Gary Eversole has been promoted to vice president, director GM Customer Satisfaction Center for Maritz’s Automotive Research Group in Toledo, Ohio.
Patricia Saporito, president of Saporito & Associates, Inc., a New York research firm specializing in insurance and related industries, has been elected president of the Society of Insurance Research for the 1996 term. She holds CPCU (Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter) and CSA (Certified Systems Analyst) designations.
Wally Balden has been promoted to vice president at the Arlington Heights, Ill., headquarters of Market Facts, Inc.
Rita Kite has been promoted to director of telephone interviewing at Response Analysis, Princeton, N.J. Scott Keshanech has joined the firm’s sampiing deparlment as statistician.
Simmon's Market Research Bureau, Inc., New York, has appointed Lindsey Draves as associate technical director. In this newly created position, Draves will work with Gregg Lindner, technical director, on design and execution of the company’s syndicated surveys.
Barbara R. Caplan has rejoined Yankelovich Partakers, Inc., Norwalk, Conn., as a partner.