FocusVision Worldwide, Inc., Stamford, Conn., has announced several management and personnel changes. Peter C. Houlahan has been appointed president and COO. John J. Houlahan, founder of FocusVision, continues as chairman and CEO. Tom Myers has been promoted to manager of U.S. and international sales. Jack Campisi has been named senior account director in sales.
Jonna Wisnieski has joined Businesslink, the business-to-business marketing and research division of Des Moines, Iowa-based MarketLink, as business consultant.
Fort Washington, Pa.-based pharmaceutical research firm TVG has named Shelli Field executive vice president.
Daniel Kahneman, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and professor of public affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in economic sciences. In its announcement, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited Kahneman "for having integated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty." In a press release, Deborah Prentice, chair of Princeton’s psychology department, said Kahneman has challenged the microfoundations of economics. "He has documented the shortcuts people take decisions. When people don’t have a systematic way of making a decision, they do what they can, and that was news to psycholoNsts and economists," she said.
Melanie Moses has been promoted to vice president at Field Dynamics, Encino, Calif.
Frances Germeshausen has joined Berkeley, Calif.-based Greenberg Germeshausen Qualitative Research, Inc. as senior project manager.
Foresight Research, Inc., Troy, Mich., has named Steven D. Bruyn partner.
Christopher Wurtz has joined Lindsay, Stone & Briggs, a Madison, Wis., branding firm, as brand discovery planner. He will conduct brand research for clients.
Stephen Palacios will head the new New York office of San Francisco-based research firm Cheskin.
John Packer has joined MarketVision Research, Cincinnati, as research director focused on the travel and tourism industry. Packer is president of the Travel & Tourism Research Association.
Millward Brown Client Service Director Corinna Streibart has been named head of the new Millward Brown office in Hamburg, Germany.
Wander Meijer of TNS Hong Kong, will oversee the integration of the Hong Kong and Mainland China offices of Taylor Nelson Sofres and will ultimately assume responsibility for the operations and marketing of the merged offices. Working with Meijer is Ashok Sethi in his new role as managing director of TNS China, which he assumed on November 1st, following the relocation of former Managing Director Susan Sabanos to the U.S.
Separately, Taylor Nelson Sofres plc announced the following changes to its board. Rémy Sautter has been appointed as a non-executive director. He is currently chairman of Channel 5, the U.K. television company, and chief executive and chairman of RTL Radio, a French media business. He is also a non-executive director of PartnerRe inc, a global reinsurance company. Deputy Chairman Nick Hodges, who has been a non-executive director since 1997, retired from the board on December 31, 2002 and will be replaced as senior independent director by Rob Rowley, who joined the board in September 2002. Jacques-Henri David, who joined the board as a nonexecutive director in 1998, will step down on January 31. In addition, the chairmanship of each of the board committees has been reviewed and the following changes took effect from January 2: Neil Cross, former chairman of the nomination committee, became chairman of the audit committee. Rob Rowley has taken the position of chairman of the remuneration committee. Stephan Buck, former chairman of the audit committee, has taken over as chairman of the nomination committee.
NFO WorldGroup, Northwood, Ohio, has named Frank Leinweber director of NFO Automotive, its automotive sector research company.
Newton, Mass.-based food industry research firm Gazelle Systems, Inc. has named Stephen M. Pytka president and chief executive officer.