In Memoriam...

Joel Reish, research manager at Cox Automotive, passed away at age 62 on June 21, 2022.

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Marketing research firm Smarty Pants has hired Clarissa Rivera as insights brainiac. 

Marketing and corporate communications company Omnicom Group Inc. has hired Brian Clayton as chief data privacy officer. 

Advertising and analytics company Xandr has promoted Mark Serhan to commercial director, Phillip Coetzee to associate director, product management and Archana Ganesh to associate director, APAC product support lead.

Market research agency InSites Consulting has hired Heike Viviers and Simone Kakana as research directors, Danie Botha as business development manager, Luzelle van Niekerk and Zanele Coka as senior research consultants and Sasha Maharaj and Lauren Govender as research consultants. 

Behavioral research consultancy PRS IN VIVO has hired Jonah Berg as associate vice president of insights in its New York office. 

Marketing research company Smarty Pants has promoted Christina Massey to insights sage.

Ipsos has named Jessica Ozan as its U.K. head of education, children and families within its public affairs division. 

The QRCA has announced its 2022 award winners including Impact Award winners Caryn Goldsmith and Abby Leafe, the Maryanne Pflug Award winner Jennifer Dale, the President's Award winner Janet Standen and the Rising Star Award winner Frankie Lipinski.

Communications consultancy SenateSHJ has added Paul Di Marzio as head of research.

Ashruti Singh has been appointed to Kantar’s newly created role leading product marketing for its insights division.

Focus Forward Transcription has promoted Matt Devine to director of transcription, Chris Rosentreter to transcription manager and has appointed Lauren Costa to its new development task force. 

Digital insight company Verve has appointed Adele James as a behavioral scientist, Lily Echanis as a social intelligence specialist and Jodie Holland as a user experience lead.

Jim White, president of market research firm RealityCheck Consulting, has hired Alexis Cannon and Kaitlin Yaldo as insight analysts.

Kantar Public has appointed Rowan Foster as senior director within its U.K. evaluation practice. 

Communications consulting firm maslansky + partners has appointed Ben Feller as a partner to its leadership team. 

Carolina Varela has joined MarketVision Research as qualitative research director. 

QRCA has named Frankie Lipinski and Shelley Singh as winners of the Lloyd J. Harris Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Market research and insights company MetrixLab has opened its first office in South Africa and has appointed Nanzala Mwaura as managing director and Rentia Kraucamp as research director. 

Custom insights firm Russell Research has added Nayer Beshay as senior account director.

Consumer insights platform Getwizer has promoted Jennifer Allison to chief commercial officer. 

Dynamic Marketing Systems has promoted Tracy Murgash to chief operating officer and Brian Fallers to chief brand officer.

Customer experience management company Merkle has appointed Ellie Ratcliff as director of its EMEA Adobe alliance.

Consumer opinion platform OnePulse has hired Alex Godsell as chief operating officer.

Ipsos has appointed Dan Lévy as group chief financial officer. 

InnovateMR has appointed Chris Kosar as director, client development, Veeraj Keshwala as manager, client development and Kristen Vance as senior programmer.

Media agency Wavemaker has appointed Radhika Radhakrishnan as global chief financial officer. 

Customer experience management company Merkle has appointed Hawk Liu as chief executive officer in China.

Laurie Visee has joined insight consultancy Basis as head of U.S. quantitative offering. 

Data and insights company Pureprofile has appointed Ashish Pandey as head of sales, data and insights for the U.S. and India. 

The Market Research Society has awarded Vijay Raj and Jan Gooding honorary fellowships. 

Data and analytics software company EDO Inc. has appointed Raman Sehgal as head of marketing.

Insights agency Hall & Partners has appointed Daiana Dal Col as chief financial officer, Josh Shames as U.S. managing partner and Peter Teachman as chief growth officer. 

The Media Rating Council has extended George Ivie’s term as executive director and CEO through 2027. 

Total experience agency Tribal Worldwide has hired Al Taylor and Dave Sullivan as creative directors and Sisley Henning as a creative.

Focus Forward has promoted Kathrina Ramroop to qualitative director, APMs and programming and Rachael Lynn, qualitative director, will oversee the project management teams. 

Analytics firm Gallup has appointed Jon Clifton as chief executive officer. 

Kantar has appointed Will Bordelon as chief executive officer of its Insights Americas business.

Market research firm Dynata has appointed Arun Kumar as vice president, Southeast Asia and India. 

ResTech firm Walr has appointed Ben Walton as chief commercial officer. 

Strategic insight consultancy Firefish USA has hired Rich Fryzel as head of quantitative. 

The Research Agency has appointed Nikki Davey as head of innovation, Tara Collins as account director and Ngaia Calder as business director.

Strategic insight agency Truth Consulting has appointed Kamaljit Kaur as a director to its insight and research team in Germany.

Quest Mindshare has promoted Erin Julien to marketing manager. 

The Advertising Research Foundation has appointed Colin Campbell as its editor in chief for the Journal of Advertising Research.  

RealityMine has hired Joel Ansbro as part of its data engineering team, Louis Ruston as part of the RealityMine apps team and Mason Chee as part of the data products team.

Research and data enablement company CMI has appointed Priya Shanmugam, Todd Stover and Funda Golcuklu to its information sciences team. 

Marketing research and consumer insights firm Touchstone Research has promoted Jacquelyn Andstrom to research manager. 

Behavioral research consultancy PRS IN VIVO has hired Stephanie Surel as its market/business development and global account leader, Switzerland.

Digital insights company Cint has appointed Tina Daniels and Liselotte Engstam to its board of directors. 

Data platform FullThrottle Technologies has hired Jeff Dillman as VP, sales, Chip Carmody as VP, enterprise partnerships, Robert Konkos as VP, data partnerships, Will McGinnis as sales director and Jai Journay as marketing director.

Insights and data company Pureprofile has appointed Shelley Barber as business development director 

Marketing platform Personica has appointed Adam Ochstein as its next chief executive officer.

Data collection company Bilendi has appointed Luigi Casula as country manager to its new Amsterdam office.

Insights agency Hypothesis has promoted Maria Vallis to CEO.

The Market Research Council has named Steve Coffey and Stephen Greyser as its 2022 Hall of Fame inductees.

Touchstone Research has created a quality control team including Jillian Brangi, Kate Franzis, Travis Santa, Andrea Boulden and Kyle Morrison.

Chris Handford and Daniel Eddy have founded research agency Waveform Insight Studio.

Mobile Digital Insights has hired Christine Laurenssen as business director, Africa, David Somers as COO, Hellen Sillis as global head of qualitative, Sam Stelitano as CFO and Sarah Gill-Kildea as insights director. 

MESH Experience’s Fiona Blades has been named president of the Market Research Council.

Reach3 Insights has launched its health practice and has appointed Katy Palmer and Brad Perkins as senior vice presidents.

Deadline reports that research firm Vault AI has appointed Ethan Titelman as president, client solutions, Luke Schoknecht as chief marketing officer, AJ Giovannetti as SVP, product strategy and Rich Calabrese as executive director of insights and strategy.

Customer experience platform Disqo has appointed Andrew Duke to its leadership team as VP, product, consumer applications.  

Global Data Collection Company has appointed Richard Compton to SVP, global sales.

International market research firm AMC Global has hired Ameila Gulding, Lettisha Omo, Jessica Gines, Kate Soifer and Paige Copple to its market research and project management teams.