Canvas8 has appointed Becca Smith as head, Toolkit. 

Research agency davies+mckerr has appointed Barny Purvis as research manager.  

Market research company Mustard has appointed Abby Phinn as research manager and Robyn Mason as senior research executive.

Customer journey company Allant Group has appointed Ed Kuderna as SVP and general manager, client success and Eli Ontiveros as SVP, technology. 

Customer experience management company Merkle has appointed Andreas Skopal as managing director, MENA. 

Market researcher Redblue has hired Chloe Finnegan as director, qualitative research.

World Business Chicago has added Liz Buchanan, global head, customer success and platform transformation, NielsenIQ, to its board of directors. 

Behavioral research and strategy firm InsightsNow has hired Stephen McIngvale as senior research director, Shannon Benson as research director, Joshua Lim as insights analyst and Angel Requena as project director. 

Location technology platform Foursquare has appointed Wade Wegner as SVP and global head, product. 

Touchstone Research has promoted Sara Sidlowski to senior project director.

Market research company Freemavens has appointed Eleanor Lloyd Malcolm as co-managing director.  

Health care market research agency and strategy consultancy Day One Strategy has appointed Joel Jitell as global head, operations.

Strategic insights agency Vision One has appointed Alex Brown as director, insights. 

Consumer insights company Dig Insights has appointed Jess Gaedeke as chief revenue officer.

Insights platform Discuss has appointed Jesse Thomson as VP, engineering. 

Kantar has appointed Bérengère Chaintreau Fuchs as global panel director within its Profiles division. 

Consumer intelligence company NielsenIQ has appointed Jacqueline Flam as SVP, beauty retail, U.S.

Full Circle Research has appointed Tasha Keehler as its senior business unit leader.   

Insights consultancy Shapiro+Raj has launched a dedicated technology practice headed by Scott Swigart.

Market research panel provider OvationMR has appointed Gail Koerner as VP, insights solutions. 

Fieldwork and data collection company Yonder Data Solutions has appointed Daniel Singham as commercial director. 

Research and data company Sago has appointed Katharine Reagan as chief revenue officer and Raj Manocha as chief client officer. 

Market researcher RealityMine has hired Mark Owen as product manager for its media content production set, Arran Ireland, Matthew Taylor and Ibrahim Alshamary as software engineers, Jack O’Brien as a sales development representative, Russell Mclean and Haaris Sheikh as data engineers, Tolulope Adeoye as a test engineer and Sola Omoniyi as a data analyst. 

Market research and advisory firm Savanta has hired Erika Alfaro as its first researcher in Mexico. It has also appointed Casey Ford, Carolyn Beschner and Jiachen Zhang as research analysts to its U.S. team.

Life sciences strategy and insight consultancy Basis Health has appointed Mark Rushek as senior director and Caleb Yonder as senior research executive.  

Market research agency Kadence International has launched The Elusive Consumer, a podcast hosted by Ellie Tehrani, CEO, Americas.  

Consumer intelligence company Measure Protocol has hired Christie Hartbarger as chief revenue officer. 

Insights platform Discuss has appointed David Bailey as sales director, EMEA and APAC.  

Data and analytics software provider Whip Media has promoted Carol Hanley to CEO and has named Richard Rosenblatt as executive chair to its board. 

The Advertising & Marketing Independent Network has elected Kelly Ferguson as president of its Americas board of directors.

Blue Yonder Research has named Adam Pottage and Kenzo Atjom as its first recruits for its Level 4 Market Research Executive Apprentice scheme.

Market researcher Boxclever has promoted Alison Gilbertson to head, analytics.  

Market research and consulting firm Smarty Pants has promoted Sam Davis to insights brainiac, a senior analyst position.   

Research & Marketing Strategies has promoted Sabreanna Sinclair to lead telephone survey associate.   

Consumer insight solutions company Researchbods has named Steve Becker as director, insight, U.S., and tapped him to lead the New York office, the firm’s first in the U.S.

Consumer and business insights consultancy BVA BDRC has promoted Adrian Ho, Sophie Fitzgerald and Echo Wu to research executives, Charlotte Craig to senior research executive, Sarmad Nadeem to senior client services executive and Nathaly Kambakara and Alice Wells to associate directors.

Ipsos has named Claire Hanlon as ESG country lead, U.S.

Data cloud company Snowflake has appointed James Petter as VP, EMEA Sales.

Search intelligence platform Captify has appointed Mike Welch as CEO. 

Insights platform Stravito has appointed Vignesh Swaminathan as VP, product. 

Quantitative market research data collection company Precision Sample has appointed Pete Aitkin as VP, client development and Jason Silver as senior director, client development. 

Strategic insight and customer analytics group STRAT7 has promoted Peter Kneale to strategy director, Pranay Jeyachandran to group MD, Lizzie Eckardt to managing director, U.K., Kevin Waters to president, U.S. and Robbie Stewart to group operations director.

Content data platform IRIS.TV has promoted Rohan Castelino to chief marketing officer and Jim Heinzen as VP, finance and operations.

Market research and analytics company Leger has appointed Adam Shafeek as senior research analyst to its health care team. 

The Research Society has appointed Lisa Salas as professional standards officer and Titian Bartlau as member administration manager.

Strategic insight consultancy Firefish Group has hired Susie Hogarth as head, cultural strategy. 

The Association for Qualitative Research has named Lucy Hobbs as chair, Liz Sykes as treasurer and Gemma Baldwin and Ella Fryer-Smith as vice chairs.

Full Circle Insights has been acquired by B2B venture equity firm Scaleworks. It has also appointed Jason Ferrara as CEO.

MarketVision Research has hired Nhi Tran, Julianne Rowland Miller, Jordan Brucato, Emily Mayer and Meghan Long as research assistants, client services; Jenna Knapke and Paige Johnson-McGill as research assistants, graphics; Jackie Osborne as human resources generalist; London Brinkman as research assistant, qualitative; and Nicole Beauchot, Lindsey Jones and Micah Organ as research assistants, marketing research online communities.

Dynata has appointed Mark Lepine as managing director, APAC.

Market researcher BARE International has appointed Jason Bare as president.

Mobile Digital Insights has appointed Inna Merenkova as managing director, Europe.

Predictive analytics company datafuelX has appointed Jo Kinsella and Joanna Drews to its board of directors.  

Data management and integration company Semarchy has appointed Ryan Bankhead as SVP, Americas and APAC sales, Kyle Smith as VP, IT and infrastructure and Craig Spencer as VP and corporate controller. 

Media measurement platform Integral Ad Science has appointed Sam Cox as SVP, product management. 

Echo Market Research has appointed Todd Exler as SVP, head, strategic insights and analytics and Scott Epstein as chief strategy officer.

Research Results’ Joe Torretto has joined survey analysis and reporting software company Displayr’s advisory board.  

Contextual targeting solutions provider Fyllo has appointed Jeff Ragovin as president.  

Consumer data company Wavemaker has named Premjeet Sodhi as global head, measurement and analytics.Â