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Digital Research, Inc., Kennebunk, Maine, has named Katherine Alexander director of marketing and communications.
 
Galloway Research Service, San Antonio, Texas, has named Daniel Hernandez marketing research consultant.

Doug Malcom has been named senior analyst at Kansas City, Mo., research firm Market Directions.

San Diego Surveys has named Chris Winkler director of research.

Mediamark Research, Inc., New York, has named Cec Serrano account executive in the firm’s Chicago office. In addition, Jeff Tiddens has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as account executive.

Research firm Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) has named Sam van der Feltz managing director of Northern and Central Europe. In addition, Ross Broadbent has joined the Interactive Solutions division of TNS (TNSis) as product director and Gabriel Hughes has joined TNS is as new product development manager. Nigel Foote has been appointed manaNng director of TNS Tellex, a U.K.-based broadcast monitoring firm.

Susan Phillippe has been promoted to director of quantitative services at JRA, J. Reckner Associates, Inc., a Montgomeryville, Pa., research firm.
 
Atlanta-based Polaris Marketing Research has named Cameron Cramer marketing and business development manager.

In conjunction with Southfield, Mich., automotive data services firm R.L. Polk & Co. increasing its holding in Marketing Systems GmbH to 100 percent, Leo Lucas, Marketing Systems sales and marketing director, has been appointed managing director of the Marketing Systems Group. Rudolf Lewandowski, founder and former president of Marketing Systems, has been appointed chief consultant to Polk.

U.K.-based Medical Marketing Research International Ltd., has named Paul Donnelly head of its Global Data Collection division. In addition, Phil Howe has been named research director.

South San Francisco, Calif.-based research firm RHK Inc. has named Marc Litvinoff chief-executive officer.

Katena Markus has been named chief financial officer of Chicago-based Research International USA, Inc.