Allen Hogg has been named marketing director of Burke Interactive, Cincinnati.
Advertain On-Line Inc., a Vancouver, B.C.-based research firm focused on on-line advertising, has named Majid Khoury to the company’s advisory board. Khoury is president of Market Explorers, an advertising and market research firm.
Norwell, Mass.-based CAP Ventures, Inc., a consulting and market research firm, has appointed Gail Clasper consulting associate for its Dynamic Content Software Strategies Consulting Service.
Richmond, Va.-based Circuit City Stores, Inc. has promoted Ann-Marie Stephens to senior vice presidentadministration. In her new assignment, she will have responsibility for store design, construction, real estate and market research.
H. Grace Fuller has been named executive director at the RIVA Training Institute, a division of RIVA Market Research, Bethesda, Md.
Christopher Sloan has been named account executive at the Atlanta office of Burke Strategic Consulting Group. At the Newton, Mass., office, Gabriela Pashturro has been named consultant.
Carma International, a Washington, D.C., media research firm, has named Sandy Gardiner executive consultant.
Research Triangle Park, N.C.-based ClinTrials Research Inc. has named Graham S. May president for North America.
New York-based Arbitron Company has named David Forr manager of encoding operations for the Arbitron Portable People Meter (PPM).
Rita Reicher has been named vice president of Knowledge Systems & Research Inc., Syracuse, N.Y.
BAIGlobal Inc., a Tarrytown, N.Y., research firm, has expanded its worldwide services division by adding several new staff members. Michael Jewell and John Presutti have been named vice president of the division. Michael Simms has been named global coordination director, and Shaan Rotolo and Darren Moore have been named assistant vice president.
New York-based Media Metrix, Inc. has named Rachel Mueller-Lust vice president and director of research of its U.S. operations.
Palo Alto, Calif.-based NextSet Software Inc., has named Ed Acly director of market research.
Newtonville, Mass.-based Lyra Research, Inc. has named Edward Lee its new director of the digital photography advisory service.
Menlo Park, Calif., research firm InterSurvey has hired Aaron Grossman as vice president & senior managing director. He will be based in InterSurvey's New York office. The firm has also named Marty Walker senior vice president and chief technology officer; Ronnie Arnold chief information officer; and Edward Kim vice president of engineering.
Janice Gaub has been named vice president of marketing for Seattle-based dmgstore.com. She will be responsible for brand management, market research, program management, creative communications, and customer acquisition and retention.
Kathleen D. Love has joined New York-based Mediamark Research Inc. as president and chief operating officer.
Palo Alto, Calif., research firm Prognostics has added three new members to its senior management team: Dave Murdoch has been named chief technology officer; Roger McConville has been named senior vice president of account management worldwide; and Annette Hornby has been named vice president of account management Europe.
Meta Group Inc., a Stamford, Conn., research firm, has named William F. Zachmann vice president in its Open Computing & Server Strategies service.
Nash Finch Company, a Minneapolis-based food retailer and distributor, has realigned its market research function to optimize its use throughout the organization. Brian E. Numainville, director of research, now reports to Jim Dorcy, vice president of marketing and advertising. Numainville has responsibility for all of the company's market research activities including consumer research, geographic information systems, site location analysis and customer satisfaction research.
Raymond V. Walsh has joined Lyra Research, Inc., Newtonville, Mass., as director of sales for North America.
Market Strategies, Inc., a Livonia, Mich., research firm, has promoted Mark Alien, Sherrie Austin, Cindy Dederick, David Edwards, Carol Hurwitz, and John Thomas to vice president.
Burke, Inc., has promoted Todd Jacobson to vice president of its Burke Marketing Research Ghent Service division in the metro San Francisco area. In addition, Michael Webster has been promoted to director of interactive operations at the firm's Cincinnati office and Sandip Narang has been named group manager of the consulting and analytical services department.
Mark Durrick has been named eastern regional vice president of business
development and sales at Survey.com, a San Jose, Calif., research firm. In addition, Nancy Stewart has joined the company as senior analyst for the business intelligence & data warehousing research program.
Jim Hood has been appointed to the newly created position of group chief executive officer of Greenfield Companies, a Westport, Conn., research firm.
The Interactive Marketing Research Organization (IMRO), a new organization of professionals from research agencies, corporate research departments and academia dedicated to the creation of ethical and best practices standards for research conducted on the Internet, has elected a board of directors.
Sharon Harap, marketing research manager of Dell Online, will head the committee on standards and ethics. Rosemarie Miller, corporate research, Intel, will serve as board secretary. Caroline Eichman, senior manager, market intelligence, IBM.com, will head the world community committee. John Gilbert, director, market insights and information management, Motorola, and Scott McDonald, director of research for Time-Warner, will serve as directors-at-large.
The officers of the new association are: president - Bill MacElroy, president, Modalis Research Technologies, San Francisco; vice president - Howard Ziment, managing director, Ziment Associates, Inc., New York; secretary - Rosemarie Miller; treasurer - Donna Wydra, vice president/executive director, Market Facts, Chicago; vice president of communications - Jon Rubin, vice president, marketing, Greenfield Online, Wilton, Conn.
The committee chairpersons include: standards & ethics - Sharon Harap; member services - Larry Fisher, senior vice president, NFO Interactive, Chicago; technology tracking - Michael Gray, CTO, Modalis Research Technologies; world community - Caroline Eichman; legislative tracking: Jacob Brown, King, Brown & Associates, San Francisco.
The directors-at-large: Rudy Nadilo, president, Greenfield Online, Wilton, Conn.; Rachel Mueller-Lust, U.S. director of research, Media Metrix, New York; John Gilbert; Scott McDonald; Steven Burch, Touchstone Research; Alan Cutler, vice president, Audits & Surveys Worldwide/UIG, San Francisco.
DigitalBiz Corporation, a West Jordan, Utah, on-line business solutions firm, has named Jim Bagley account executive, on-line market research services.
Dawn Rosso has joined Taylor Nelson Sofres Intersearch, Horsham, Pa., as an executive manager; Barbara Bertner has joined Taylor Nelson Sofres Intersearch in White Plains, N.Y. as vice president; Kevin Joostema has joined Taylor Nelson Sofres Intersearch in Los Angeles as vice president; and Janice Kessler has joined Taylor Nelson Sofres Intersearch in Ellicott City, Md., as a vice president.
Daniel Donohoo has joined the Boise, Idaho, office of Clearwater Research as director of human factors operations.
Modalis Research Technologies, San Francisco, has named Gary Nicholas vice president, accounts, and Jeff Berg and Edward Erickson have been named account executive. In addition, Brian Fowler has been named panel alliances and marketing manager - OPG, and Albert Hilgart has been named director of qualitative services.
Brin Bell has been promoted to senior vice president for business development at Greenfield Online, Wilton, Conn. In addition, Susan Rosovsky has been promoted to senior vice president, research operations.
Directions Research, Inc., Cincinnati, has named Scott Layne vice president of interactive solutions.
FGI, Inc., a Chapel Hill, N.C., research firm, has named Daniel Mosrie senior account manager and manager of research operations for the customer research and quality consulting division. Paul Hayes has been named account manager. The firm also announced the following promotions: Joe Bates to senior account manager; Carla Penel and Jennifer Lewis to account manager; Greg Newman to associate account manager; and Jackie Malik to senior market research assistant.
Los Angeles-based Lieberman Research Worldwide has named Peter M. Kay vice president, general manager, and head of its Internet strategy research division, eLRW.
FocmVision Worldwide, a Stamford, Conn., research firm, has named Barbara Barrett senior account director and Ruth Freedman senior director, research partnerships.
Millennium Research Inc., Apple Valley, Minn.. has named Jennifer Slaughter as a new associate.
Russell McGuire has joined CJ Olson Market Research, Minneapolis, as administrative assistant.
Paul Pacholski has been promoted to division manager of the Maritz, Marketing Research telecommunications research group in Chicago. At Maritz's St. Louis office, Stephanie Feeney has been named project operations manager for the central project management division; Maureen Zvanut Gardiner has been named division manager for the North American operations-research services group; Ken Radigan has been promoted to group vice president of information services; Keith Chrzan has been named director of marketing sciences; Bob Stergos has been named account manager for the South Central region; and Bob Anderson has been promoted to the newly created position of vice president, director information technology - North American Operations.
Jean Quatresooz, president of the INRA (Europe) Network since 1986 and CEO of the INRA (Europe) Group since 1989, has decided to resign from his managerial positions in the INRA companies.
John Hegelmeyer has been named manager, Western advertiser/agency services for The Arbitron Company in Los Angeles.
Richard Wirthlin, founder and chairman of McLean, Va.-based research firm Wirthlin Worldwide, was one eight recipients of the "Outstanding Contribution to Campaign Consulting" award from American University's Campaign Management Institute in May. The award was presented to "pioneers who have made substantial contributions to the electoral process in the United States and who have had a lasting positive impact on the political consulting industry."
Beth Bryan has been named account manager for Arbitron Cable Services in Chicago.
Marilynn Pouland-Backus has joined Eagle Research as facilities coordinator of the Denver focus group facility.
Chicago-based Information Resources, Inc., has promoted John Coyne to executive vice president and area general manager of the company's West client service area.
Paul Lubin has been named CEO/COO at Barry Leeds & Associates, a New York research and consulting firm. He will succeed Barry Leeds, the company's current chairman and founder, who will retire in April 2001.
Larry Gulledge has joined The Marketing Workshop, a Norcross, Ga., research firm, as vice president - client service.
Leyla Namiranian has been promoted to director of international research at Decision Analyst, an Arlington, Texas, research firm.