Allan Benedict and John Wargo will join Chapel Hill, N.C-based FGI, Inc., as managing director and account director, respectively, of the firm’s new Detroit office. Previously Benedict was a partner and executive vice president at Nordhaus Research, Southfield, Mich. Wargo was a vice president at Nordhaus.

Elizabeth Hurlow-Hannah has been named director of the Training Institute of RIVA Market Research, Inc., Bethesda, Md., and Jill Treby has been named training coordinator.

Response Analysis Corp., Princeton, N.J., has added Joe Hagan as vice president for banking research services. Previously he was president and founder of 20/20 Financial Research Corp. In addition, Regina Goutevenier has joined the firm as vice president in the telecommunications and information technology group. Previously she was with AT&T and NYNEX.

Merrill Dubrow has joined the Paramus, N.J., office of Elrick & Lavidge as senior vice president-Northeast. Previously he was president of Phonelab Research, Philadelphia.

Todd Napier has joined the Cincinnati office of Burke Customer Satisfaction Associates as an account executive. Previously he was vice president, Healthcare Services Group, for Alliance Research.

Roper Starch Worldwide, New York, has added June Wallach as account director. Previously she was sales director at International Data Corp.

Todd Winfrey and Heather Parker have been named assistant project directors in the Atlanta office of Creative Research Services.

St. Louis-based Porchey Research Inc., has promoted Kathy Farmer to senior vice president, Jill Donahue to vice president, and Christian Watkins to manager of research and technology.

David Keen has been named study director of the Energy Research & Consulting Division of Market Strategies, Inc., Southfield, Mich. Previously he was senior research director at Affina in Troy, Mich.

Sharon Thompson has been promoted to research coordinator, and Melissa Gibbs to project coordinator, at Aragon Consulting Group, St. Louis.