In memoriam…

Qualitative researcher Laurie Tema-Lyn died on December 23.

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Consumer insights company 113 Industries has promoted Jenna Kerr to VP, strategy and operations. 

Unimrkt Research has appointed Anjali Rathor as voice quality analyst. 

Comscore’s Lead Director Brent Rosenthal will retire from its board of directors and will not stand for re-election at the 2024 annual meeting of stockholders. Comscore plans to nominate Jon Carpenter, CEO, to join the board this year. 

Unimrkt Research has appointed Rishav Pandey, Utkarsh Chib, Aaryan Goel and Kumari Jyoti as research associates, Tapoja Saha as business research associate and Shambhu Sharan Suman as senior research associate. 

Consumer behavior company Circana has appointed Hannah Kim as chief legal officer.  

Blue Marble Research has promoted Sonali Patel to research director and has hired Daniel Brownie as research manager.  

Data and insights company Pureprofile has appointed Ricardo Cordova as business development manager.  

Consumer insights company Researchbods has appointed Alicia Myers as insight director.

Rigour Research has hired Ciprian Pantea as programming analyst. 

Connected TV and cross-screen advertising company LG Ad Solutions has appointed Dave Rudnick as SVP, engineering. 

Research agency Boxclever has appointed Lisa Lawrence as operations manager and Lucy Hampson as quantitative director.

Emporia Research has appointed Rachel Go as client solutions associate.  

Research panel provider OvationMR has appointed Cara Christensen as director, insight solutions.  

Quest Mindshare has promoted Mohit Chaudhary to project manager. 

Commerce media company Criteo has appointed Melanie Zimmermann as general manager, global retail media.  

Insights firm Delineate has hired James Betteley as chief technology officer.

The Insights Association has approved four new members to its board of directors including Kai Fuentes, president and CEO, Ebony Marketing Systems; Katie Gross, chief customer officer, Suzy; Barry Jennings, director, cloud and commercial business planning insights, Microsoft; and Jim Lane, president and CEO, Directions Inc. All will serve two-year terms.

Civicom Marketing Research Services has selected Jonathan Laudencia to assume management of its video streaming solution CCam focus. He will continue to lead Civicom’s respondent recruiting unit, CiviSelect. 

Veridata Insights has appointed Justin Wilbur as chief revenue officer. 

Attention measurement company Adelaide has added Nishat Mehta and Ryan McBride to its board of advisors.  

Advertising company LG Ad Solutions has appointed Mike Brooks as global head, business development and partnerships.

iMAD Research has appointed Amit Narula as senior director, CATI operations. 

Insights agency Vital Findings has appointed Iwan Thomis as chief strategy officer. 

Ironwood Insights Group has hired Jacqueline Rosales as a strategic growth advisor.  

Behavioral science agency BEESY has appointed Kendall Park as senior behavioral science manager. 

Experience research company Alida has appointed Efrem Ainsley as CEO as Ross Wainwright steps down from the role.

Marketing research firm Breakthrough Research Inc. has hired Marcello Magno as chief analytics officer.

Research and polling firm Benenson Strategy Group has promoted Lindsay Vermeyen and Patrick Toomey to partners and has appointed Michael Kulisheck as managing director. 

Consumer marketing insights company Behaviorally has appointed Maria Verbetskaia as insights analyst.  

Stratega Market Research has appointed Maja Sadowska as project manager.

Werk Insight has appointed Naomi Randell as research manager.

ResTech company Walr has appointed Markus Andersson as senior front-end developer and Olivia Florance as account executive. 

Research and advisory company Savanta has hired Richard Brooks as external communications director.   

PSB Insights has appointed Qi Jiang as VP, advanced analytics.

Customer experience management platform Sprinklr has appointed Trac Pham as interim chief operating officer.   

ResTech company Walr has appointed Daisy Jarrett as key account manager, North America. 

Research platform Zappi has appointed Babita Earle as managing director, international. 

Consumer intelligence company CGA by NIQ has appointed Jennifer Knott as consumer research director, EMEA and APAC. 

Research panel provider OvationMR has appointed Alex Sutter as VP, qualitative sales and operations. 

VideoAmp has transitioned Ross McCray to a founder, board member and shareholder role. It has also appointed Peter Liguori as executive chairman, Peter Bradbury as chief commercial and growth officer and has promoted Tony Fagan to president, technology and strategy and Josh Hudgins to chief product officer.

CX platform DISQO has promoted David Karp to chief customer officer.

Data and insights company Pureprofile has expanded to Germany and Portugal and has appointed Thorsten Hardtke as business development manager, DACH and Ricardo Cordova as business development manager, Portugal and Spain. 

Research data and analytics company YouGov has appointed Benedikt Lüthi to CEO, EMEA. 

Insights platform Ideally has appointed Sam Tetro as senior business development manager.   

Innovative Research Technologies has appointed Roddy Knowles as VP, product.

Insights company Alligator Digital has promoted Giorgio Mariani to senior project consultant and Samir Taliep to senior project manager. 

Research and brand consultancy The Sound has appointed Russ Wilson as head, U.K.

Customer engagement platform Twilio has appointed Khozema Shipchandler as CEO and to its board of directors as Jeff Lawson steps down from the role. It has also appointed Jeff Epstein as chair. 

Insights technology and panel provider Toluna has appointed Scott Axcell as chief marketing officer.

Medical market research company MedSurvey has appointed Laurie Shapiro as SVP, global partner strategy.   

Ipsos has acquired Jarmany, a data analytics and strategy company. 

Research services company Opinions LTD has appointed Susan Sabanos as VP, research and strategy.

Insights consultancy Verve has promoted Kim Howard to semiotics research director, Meg Palmer to research manager, semiotics, Danny Vio, Tomi Durosinmi, Samuel Winterbottom, Ben McIntyre and Lauren Irwin to associate directors, Karol Kulesza to research manager, Dhavanya Pillay to senior research executive, Jacob Barns, Saskia Racke, Rachel Hughes, Jade Isaacs and Will Wallis to research executives, Ksenia Zdorovets to senior data executive, Alexandru Rosca to data processing executive and Darius Comanescu and Petronela Oatu to scripting executives. 

Research and analytics company Leger has promoted Tracey Berkenbush to SVP, research, U.S.

Data collection panel and services company Quest Mindshare has promoted Shadab Hussain to project manager.  

Market Research Institute International has appointed Jonathan Lepisto as its board president. 

Insights company Dynata has appointed Derek Brown as VP, Australia and New Zealand, Michael Fegan as VP, North Asia and Russell Carter as country manager, Singapore. 

Research and strategy firm InsightsNow has appointed Michael Clark as senior director, client partnerships.   

Thinks Insight & Strategy has promoted Tim Postle to research executive and Emily Melling and Rhianna Duthie to senior research executives.

Research solutions provider Torfac has appointed Eric Harring as senior director, client development, U.S.  

Potentia Insight has appointed Shaun May as senior data scientist, SigDiff. 

Research agency Boxclever has promoted Andy Haylett to director, head, tech and Alice Langthorne to activation manager. 

Research and consulting firm The Dieringer Research Group has promoted Rob Skog to senior director, research services and Duane Balsiger to senior director, application development.

Research company Appinio has appointed Samer Ragheb as director, marketing and Viktoriya Vasileva as director, people and culture.

Research company Borderless Access has appointed Robert Pierson as SVP, business development, North America.

SCUBA Analytics has appointed Marc Ryan as chief product officer. 

DVJ Insights has appointed Sofia Aberg and Matts Nijman as marketing interns, Niklas Pfeffer as research expert and Lara Dirven as HR business partner. 

Insights company Alligator Digital has appointed Emma Hall as client services director. 

Cross-channel TV advertising company Simulmedia has appointed Jon Werther as EVP, operations and business development.

Consumer data company Wavemaker has appointed Alexia Pilavachi as L’Oréal global media lead.

Behaviorally has appointed Viola Yang as HR business partner.  

C+R Research has appointed Erin Barber as president and chief client officer and Paul Metz as chief executive officer.

Data, analytics and AI company Cynozure has appointed Louise Hutchins as director, data culture and literacy.

Connected TV and cross-screen advertising company LG Ad Solutions has hired Angela Barnett as head, corporate communications.  

Forsta has appointed Kirk O’Connor as senior sales director, qualitative offerings.  

iMAD Research has appointed Sankalp Asthana as lead, project management.

Nielsen has appointed Carole Robinson as chief communications officer.

C+R Research has promoted Sergio Patiño to SVP and partner. 

Data streaming and messaging solutions company DiffusionData has appointed Frank McCarthy as business solutions executive, financial services, EMEA and Andy Peet as CFO.

Customer engagement platform Emplifi has appointed Ohad Hecht as CEO.  

Advertising agency Dentsu UK&I has appointed Dan Truman as chief strategy officer.

Market Research Institute International has appointed Tatyana Bacon, Katie Gross, Finn Raben and Stan Sthanunathan to its board of directors.  

Ipsos has hired Shrutika More as country service line leader for the creative excellence vertical in India.  

Insights consultancy Nature has appointed Gareth Joe as brand strategist.  

Thinks Insight & Strategy has promoted Cate Standing-Tattersall to senior research executive. 

TV advertising company Simulmedia has appointed Ken Rona as chief scientist.  

Unimrkt Research has appointed Shaina Goswami, Aman Gawri and Tanushree Bangia as research associates. 

Potentia Insight has appointed Abubaker Omer as project executive and Steve Burton and Bill McDivitt as data managers.