Elaine Madansky has been promoted to marketing research project manager at Abbott Laboratories Diagnostics Division, North Chicago, Ill.
William Salokar has joined the Atlanta office of Elrick & Lavidge as account director. Previously he was product and research manager at The Georgia Lottery. Also in the Atlanta office, Marsha White has been promoted to vice president. In the Chicago office, Larry Gulledge has been appointed to regional manager. In the Dallas office, Michele DeKinder-Smith has been promoted to vice president.
SOFRES Intersearch, Horsham, Pa., has named Ken DePinto senior vice president and group director of the newly created Taylor Nelson SOFRES Healthcare Group in North America. In addition, Shannon Vanden Berg has been named senior project director in the firm’s Automotive Group in Detroit.
Kari Johnson has joined C. J. Olson Market Research, Minneapolis, as market research assistant.
S. Michael Suplick has been named to the newly created position of chief operating officer at Rockwood Research, St. Paul.
James O’Hara, Jr. and Ted McMillin have joined the Dallas office of Burke Marketing Research as senior account executives.
ACNielsen, Stamford, Conn., has named Paul McNeill senior vice president of global marketing.
Information Resources, Inc., Chicago, has named Kim Feil division president for marketing, product management and business solutions, and Peter Dietz division president for technology and software development.
The following have been named to the management team for MRCGroup’s new data collection center in Las Vegas: Glynis Giangrande, senior project manager; Alan Bumacod, project manager; Pam Auld, phone center tech manager; Sam Stipsky, senior telephone center director; Maryann Welsh, telephone center director.
Susan Northey, an associate research director at the Milwaukee office of the Cramer-Krasselt advertising agency, has been named a vice president.
James Porchey, owner and CEO of Porchey Research, St. Louis, has been named to the advisory board of the University of Texas at Arlington’s Master of Science in Marketing Research program.
John Sadler has joined Quality Controlled Services, St. Louis, as a telemarketing account representative.