In Memoriam...
Sharon Mutter, owner of Sharon Mutter Field Services, Carmel, Ind., and 32-year MRA member, died on May 14.
Dave Goldberg, CEO of Palo Alto, Calif., research firm SurveyMonkey and husband of Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, died suddenly at the age of 47 on May 1. Zander Lurie will serve as temporary executive chairman of the board at firm SurveyMonkey for a period of three months.
Quirk’s Marketing Research Media, Eagan, Minn., has added Sara Potzmann as assistant news editor.
Dunkin’ Brands, Canton, Mass., announced that John Costello has decided to retire in the middle part of 2016. Costello will remain president, global marketing and innovation, until he retires and will continue reporting to Nigel Travis, Dunkin’ Brands chairman and CEO. As of May 1, he transitioned to a new, more strategic role focused largely on the evolution of the company’s brands with a special emphasis on Dunkin’ Brands’ international businesses. The company will not be replacing Costello and will instead promote two members of the senior marketing leadership team to assume his current responsibilities.
Time Inc., New York, has hired JT Kostman to the newly created position of senior vice president/chief data officer.
Baldwinsville, N.Y., RMS Healthcare, a division of Research & Marketing Strategies Inc., has appointed Meghan House as a CAHPS 1 associate.
Chicago researcher Technomic Inc. has promoted Bernadette Noone to vice president.
Ralph Pagan has been appointed as vice president of strategy and market intelligence for SIS International Research.
Matt Jauchius has stepped down as CMO of Columbus, Ohio, insurer Nationwide. Terrance Williams, president of Nationwide Agribusiness, will replace him.
Discover Financial Services, Riverwoods, Ill., has promoted Julie Loeger to senior vice president and chief marketing officer for its U.S. cards business.
The Carlson Group has promoted Scott Davenport to the newly created position director of sales and strategic partnerships.
Kate Hammeke has joined Industry Standard Research, Raleigh N.C., to further develop its portfolio of syndicated and custom market research in the pharmaceutical manufacturing space.
Chicago firm Edelman has brought in Mediacom’s former head of insights for Asia-Pacific, Catriona Muspratt-Williams, to head up the Singapore office. Meanwhile, Andrew Chapman has been hired as head of Australia.
Baldwinsville, N.Y., firm Research & Marketing Strategies Inc. has named Maggy Terpstra as the marketing and communications coordinator. Separately, the firm has appointed Colin Hack as the new business development coordinator.
Opinions Ltd., Chagrin Falls, Ohio, appointed Iris Blaine as executive director and Kelly Parsons and Janet Kennedy as client services manager.
Ipsos, New York, appointed Oscar Yuan as president of Ipsos’ Strategy 3, its advisory services unit.
MetrixLab, San Francisco, has appointed Kimberly Bastoni to the position of executive vice president North America.
Robert Bridge, head of international marketing at Yahoo, has been promoted with a focus on delivering more personalized content to users as “editorial” is added to a broadening remit.
Leslie Ferraro has been named president of Disney Consumer Products for The Walt Disney Company, Burbank, Calif.
Women in Research announced the appointment of its 2015-2016 advisory board. The newly appointed board consists of the following women: Ashley Chauvin, New York, Citi; Christina Jenkins, London, LinkedIn; Emily Della Maggiora, San Francisco, Qterics; Elaine Madansky, Chicago, Wrigley; Elaine Coleman, Boston, ORA.Systems and Erica Van Lieven, Sydney, Directions First.
Information Resources Inc., Chicago, has appointed Joan M. Lewis as a senior advisor.
Colmar Brunton, Brisbane, Australia, appointed Marian McCormick as chief strategy officer.
Wayne Lashua has joined Cincinnati researcher Burke, Inc. as vice president, senior account executive in client services.
Iris Morgenstern has joined London researcher B2B International as research manager. She will be working in its Dusseldorf, Germany, office.
Nada Stirratt has assumed the CEO role at location-based mobile ad specialist Verve, headquartered in Carlsbad, Calif.
New York marketing firm HookLogic has appointed Patricio Jaramillo as vice president of analytics and insights.
Circle Research, London, has hired Emma James as senior research executive and Tom Russell as project manager.
NatureBox, a San Francisco online snack food firm, has hired Ray Elias as chief marketing officer.
Steve Lavine has re-joined Kinesis Survey Technologies, an Austin, Texas, software firm, as president. Lavine is co-founder of the company.
Paradigm Sample, Port Washington, N.Y., has hired Rick Wilson as vice president of online and mobile solutions.
New York technology firm PlaceIQ has appointed Mandeep Mason, formerly with Microsoft, to oversee its expansion into the EMEA region.
San Francisco technology firm Hewlett Packard has appointed Antonio Lucio as chief marketing officer. He will lead the marketing efforts for the PC and printer division, HP Inc., which is set to split off from the rest of the business later this year.
Baesman, a direct marketing and customer insights agency in Hilliard, Ohio, has hired Leah Cotterman as director of new business development.
Anthony Domine has rejoined Nashville, Tenn., marketing and consulting firm North Star Destination Strategies as vice president of marketing.
Sprint, Overland Park, Kansas, has appointed Roger SolŽ as senior vice president of the Hispanic market and senior vice president of innovation. He will head the firm’s new Hispanic business unit.
London researcher Demographix has hired Gina Lee-Young as its first head of insight.
ICM Direct, a London research company, has promoted Mona BlŠute to deputy operations director and hired Michael Phillips as data services director and Ali Yusuf as solutions development executive.
U.K. television broadcast firm Channel 4 has promoted Charlie Palmer to head of viewer relationship management. He was formerly group marketing manager.
London marketing firm Chime announced eight new hirings in its Insight and Engagement Group (CIE). Jessica Turner has joined Cherry Picked as a qualitative fieldwork consultant. Isobel Rudlin, Liam Kilby and Annabel Wood are now at Watermelon Research, the digital branch, as analysts. Lora Webb and Janine Waters have joined Facts International as research executive and HR manager, respectively. Ashley Lewis is now an insight manager at CIE Commercial and Sania Haq has joined Opinion Leader as research manager.
Horizon Media, a New York marketing firm, has appointed Rick Watrall as chief analytics officer.
Smarty Pants, a Johnson City, Tenn., research firm, has named Amie Turrill Owens as head of syndicated research. She is based on Foxboro, Mass.
Mary Beth West, former Mondelez International marketing head, has been named as executive vice president, chief customer and marketing officer at retailer JCPenney.
Craig Bahner has been appointed as president of Kellogg Co.’s U.S. Morning Foods branch. He previously served as chief marketing officer of Wendy’s.
New York research firm Open Mind Strategy has appointed Jesse Caesar as director of research and strategy.
Cincinnati firm Directions Research has appointed Jim Lane as president and chief marketing officer. He takes over for Randy Brooks, who will assume the role as chairman of the board.
Ipsos, New York, announced that Tim Farmer recently joined its newly-formed Ipsos Connect division, where he will lead the deployment of MediaCell, the Ipsos electronic audience measurement system.
RG+A, a New Hope, Pa., health care research and consulting firm, appointed Amit Vohra as its new vice president for sales and business development.
TNS U.K., London, has appointed Debbie Shuttlewood as the head of mystery customer research.
London cinema advertising firm Digital Cinema Media has promoted Zoe Jones to marketing and insight director.
Stamford, Conn., research firm FocusVision has announced several new hires: James Robertson and Donald Bresee as key accounts director; and Tyler Breilein, Stephanie Ball, Gene Filipi and Nicholas Suggs as business development director.
Seattle marketing agency Razorfish Global has appointed Samih Fadli to the newly created position of chief intelligence officer.
Stamford, Conn., sports and entertainment intelligence company Repucom has appointed Lars Stegelmann as the executive vice president commercial operations for its Cologne, Germany, office.
Marketing Sciences Unlimited, a Winchester, U.K., research agency, has promoted Andy Myers to research director.