In New York, media company Univision Communications Inc. has appointed Jed Meyer as executive vice president, corporate research.
Microsoft has appointed Jolaine Boyd as its new CMO for Asia-Pacific, based in Singapore.
Stockholm-based research firm Cint has appointed Greg Dunbar as vice president of sales, EMEA and Dag Magni as CFO. Also, Richard Thornton, chief commercial officer, has been promoted to deputy CEO.
In London, Charles Pearson has joined research firm FlexMR as SVP, strategic business development.
Monsanto Company, St. Louis, has appointed Nielsen CEO Mitch Barns to its board of directors. His appointment is effective immediately and he will stand for election to the board at the 2017 annual meeting of shareowners. He will serve on the science and technology committee and the sustainability and corporate responsibility committee.
In New York, consumer products company Colgate-Palmolive has appointed the following: P. Justin Skala as COO, North America, Europe, Africa/Eurasia and global sustainability; Noel R. Wallace as COO, global innovation and growth and Hill’s Pet Nutrition, including leadership of the company’s global marketing, research and development, global manufacturing and customer development organizations and Franck J. Moison as vice chairman overseeing the company’s business in Asia-Pacific and Latin America and its business development efforts. Fabian T. Garcia, formerly COO, global innovation and growth, Europe/South Pacific and Hill’s Pet Nutrition, announced his departure from Colgate to assume a leadership role outside the company.
Research firm Firefish has appointed Beth Broughton as managing director of its U.S. business, based in Brooklyn, N.Y.
R. Dennis Wildsmith, most recently vice president of risk operations for Dallas-based money transfer provider Moneygram International, has been named executive director of The Joseph School, a college-prep school based in Cabaret, Haiti, and Nashville, Tenn. The school was launched in 2011 by Nashville, Tenn., firm 20|20 Research and its founder/CEO Jim Bryson following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The school opened last September with 31 students and five teachers. Wildsmith will be based in Nashville but will spend a portion of his time in Haiti.
San Francisco-based cloud analytics platform Keen IO has hired Will O’Brien as COO.
Portsmouth, N.H., online research panel Op4G has appointed Don Wasylyk as technology systems manager based in the firm’s Austin, Texas, office.
Irvine, Calif., firm MFour Mobile Research has hired Eric Chou as software engineer.
Research company Mozaic Group has appointed Vaishali Daga as analytics director.
In Atlanta, research firm CMI has appointed Will Leopold as senior research manager for its Healthcare and Life Sciences team. Dave Williams has rejoined the firm as manager of technology services.
India-based online panel services firm Borderless Access has appointed Arindam Som as a non-executive director responsible for contributing to the insights and innovation at the firm and Steve Hamilton Clark as a non-executive director for the Middle East region.
San Francisco application intelligence company AppDynamics has appointed Kendall Collins as CMO.
Alan M. Park has joined Waltham, Mass., emotion recognition software firm Affectiva as its chief revenue officer.
Disney|ABC Television Group, Burbank, Calif., has named current ABC Research executive Elizabeth Sloan and Jane Gould to the newly-created positions of senior vice president, consumer insights, for the group’s broadcast/studio and cable teams, respectively. Sloan will lead all consumer insights, research and analytics functions across ABC Entertainment, ABC Studios and ABC News. Gould will oversee all consumer insights, research and analytics functions across the group’s four cable networks – Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Disney XD and Freeform – as well as Radio Disney. In addition, she will provide guidance for and collaboration with research partners at Disney Channels around the world.
Consensus Point, a Nashville, Tenn., provider of prediction market research technology, has appointed Bart Gamble as vice president, client service and analytics, effective immediately.
Michael W. Link has been named president and CEO of Abt SRBI, a research firm and subsidiary of Cambridge, Mass., researcher Abt Associates. Link is the past president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
New York-based researcher SHC Universal has hired Rachel Knowles as director, joining the firm’s London-based team. SHC Universal has also named Jerry Arbittier as its new CEO.
Mike Boehm has joined Irvine, Calif., firm MFour Mobile Research as director of communications.
San Francisco-based Grand View Research Inc. has appointed Bhabesh Panigrahi as director of strategy and research.
In New York, researcher Ipsos has appointed Joe Marshall as president of Ipsos Marketing Quantitative in the U.S. He will be based in Chicago.
U.K. video research technology company Voxpopme has appointed Brin Moore as VP of sales for North America.
Lightspeed GMI, based in Warren, N.J., has expanded its Latin American business led by Luis Martin, senior account director, and Account Director Benjamin Huston, with teams operating in Mexico City and S‹o Paulo. The firm has also added Jose Vanderley, senior project manager, to its Latin America team.
Celebrity Cruises, operated by Miami-based cruise vacation company Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., has named Peter Giorgi as CMO.
MTV, a unit of New York-based Viacom, has named Laurel Weir as senior vice president, strategic insights and research.
Natasha Hritzuk has joined the research division of Atlanta-based media company Turner as vice president of client insights and content partnerships research. She will be based in New York.
New York-based research consultancy Millward Brown has appointed Louise Ainsworth as CEO of Millward Brown in the U.K. She will replace Dale Beaton, U.K. managing director, who is moving to the role of SVP global practice lead, Millward Brown.
Sylvain Gauthier has joined Canada-based research and polling firm Leger as vice president of research for its Quebec City office.
UK Online Measurement Company, the industry body owned by the Internet Advertising Bureau and Association of Online Publishers, has appointed Julie Forey as its first director of insight.
In Atlanta, researcher Focus Pointe Global has appointed Todd Napier as chief business development officer.
RealityMine, a U.K. mobile research technologies and consumer analytics firm, has named Tom O’Sullivan as chief revenue officer.
Nuremberg, Germany, research firm GfK has reported that Wolfgang C. Berndt, Bernhard DŸttmann, Hauke Stars and Hans van Bylen will leave the firm’s supervisory board. Additionally, at the request of GfK Verein, GfK’s majority shareholder, the supervisory board has nominated Dieter Kempf, former CEO of DATEV eG, members of the executive board of GfK Verein Ralf Klein-Bšlting and Raimund Wildner, as well as Bruno Piacenza, a member of the management board of Henkel Management AG, for election. Changes to the board have been anticipated since last year, with Berndt announcing upon his re-election that he would resign from the supervisory board in light of the maximum tenure laid out in the corporate governance codex. In addition, Stars informed GfK at the end of last year, as did DŸttmann more recently, that he would resign before completion of his term. Van Bylen, who is to become CEO of Henkel Management AG, informed GfK at the end of March that he too would resign, effective April 30.
Research firm TNS UK, London, has appointed Richard Clissold-Vasey as COO, with a place on the U.K. board.
Martine Reardon, CMO for Cincinnati-based retailer Macy’s, left the company in May after 32 years of service.
Alan Mavretish has joined Schlesinger Interactive as vice president, client development. He will be based in Pittsburgh.
In Chicago, customer science company dunnhumby has hired Rob Christian as senior vice president of business development.
New Orleans-based audience platform Lucid has appointed Ben Hogg as managing director, EMEA. He will be based in the firm’s London office. Additionally, the firm has announced new titles for two senior executives: Andy Ellis, president of Lucid’s Fulcrum and Federated Sample business units, has been named chief operating officer, Lucid and Brett Schnittlich, Lucid’s chief technology officer, has been named president and CTO, Lucid.
New York indoor cycling company Peloton has named Lori Marcus as its new CMO.
Sweden-based research company Nepa has added Bo Mattsson, founder of Sweden-based research company Cint, to its board of directors.
Betsy Bergman has joined NBCUniversal TV Distribution, New York, as senior vice president, marketing and brand strategy.