Laurie Gooding has joined Cahners In-Stat Group, a Newton, Mass., research firm, as a senior networking WAN analyst in the firm's Voice and Data Communications Group. Gooding will focus on voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) and other technological trends in the wide-area networking industry.
The University of Texas at Arlington is establishing an endowed scholarship fund to create the Philip Barnard Scholarship for students pursuing a master of science in marketing research degree. The fund was established to honor the contributions Barnard has made to the university's graduate research program. Barnard recently retired as executive chairman of the board of the Kantar Group, a London-based research firm. Contribution checks, made payable to the Philip Barnard Scholarship Fund, may be sent to RoseAnn Reddick, Marketing Dept., University of Texas at Arlington, P.O. Box 19469, Arlington, Texas, 76019.
Michael Balzano has been named national sales manager of Penton Research Services, Cleveland.
Bruce Williamson has joined Taylor Nelson Sofres Telecoms as worldwide director of product development and methods. He will be based in San Antonio, Texas.
Howard Shimmel has been appointed executive vice president marketing research services for Symmetrical Resources, Inc. He has also assumed the role of acting president of Simmons Market Research Bureau.
NETWORK, a Covington, Ky., research firm, has named Ann Wilking account director, Leigh Ferrell senior project manager, and Nan Sempsrott project associate. In addition, Cathy Sandlin has been promoted to technical specialist.
Opinion Research Corporation, Princeton, N.J., has promoted members of its management team. Linda G. Shea and James D. Daniels were elected senior vice presidents and Robert E. Clark was elected vice president of the global marketing research and model-based teleservices firm.
Clearwater Research, Inc., Boise, Idaho, has announced several promotions at its Boise office: Rebecca Needles to data collection project coordinator; Julie Rieman to data collection assistant supervisor; Brooke Pace to research analyst; Margie Olson to evening/weekend data collection manager; Mariah Norris to research analyst; Eric Holloway to field services manager; Scott Banner to research analyst; Greg Loveday to lead programmer. In addition, the following new staff members have joined the firm: Selina Carver-Shaw, Janice Rush, and Don Holley as associate study director; Mark LaSalle as human factors research analyst; and Jennifer Suiter and Tonia Davis as usability specialist. At the firm's Council, Idaho, office, Diane Coon has been promoted to data collection supervisor.
Liz Dunn has joined Brintnall & Nicolini, a Philadelphia health care consulting and research firm as senior research associate.
Murray Simon, formerly of DRS HealthCare Consultants, has joined the Qualitative Institute of Strategic Marketing Corp., Bala Cynwyd, Pa., as senior consultant.
R. Casey Goodman and Andrew Heller have joined the staff of Atlanta-based Polaris Marketing Research as project manager. Karl Buchholz and Stacy Woods have been named assistant project manager.
Joseph Durrett, former vice president and CEO of Broderbund Software, as been named chairman, president and CEO of Information Resources, Inc., Chicago. In addition, Tim Ruppert has joined the firm as executive vice president and general manager of its Cincinnati/Minneapolis area.
Nicholas Holt has joined Response Analysis, Princeton, N.J., as vice president and director of the social and policy research group. In addition, Lila Goldstein has joined the firm's telecommunications and information technologies group as senior vice president and group head. In separate news, Response Analysis President James Fouss was selected as the 1998-99 Sigma Chi Foundation/William P. Huffman Scholar-in-Residence at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Garry Hayles has been promoted to vice president/controller at The Eagle Group, Atlanta.
CLT Research Associates, New York, has named the following new staff members: David Braverman as senior vice president; Jan Bell as vice president; Nancy Greenwald as senior project director; Christina Hildebrand as project director; Carolyn Broullon as field director.
Merle Sandler has joined Pathfinder Research Group, Acton, Mass., as project director. The firm has also named Lee Shrier junior project director.
Creative Research Services, Inc., Atlanta, has named Mark Oatman senior vice president and Dorothea Briggman project director.