Bill Ross has joined DTW Marketing Research Group, Inc. of Flanders, NJ as project director. In addition, Amy K. Alien Drake has joined the firm as manager of operations.
Market Directions, the marketing research affiliate of V-R Communications, Inc., Kansas City, MO, has added two new staff members: Kathy Collins has joined the firm as account supervisor and Mary Craigle has joined the firm as senior project director.
Joseph Y. Leung has been appointed product research manager of Heinz U.S.A.'s marketing research department.
Pat Baker has joined Interviewing Service of America, Van Nuys, CA, as director of data processing services. Previously she was data processing manager at J.D. Powers and Associates.
Lawrence Widi has been named marketing research director at Cramer-Krasselt advertising in Milwaukee.
Irwin Korman has been promoted to executive vice president, operations at Bruskin/Goldring Research. In addition, Matthew Kirby has been promoted to executive vice president, CFO, and Richard Zackon has been named vice president and director of the firm's Cable Television division.
Tom Murray has been named supervisor, strategic planning and research, DDE Needham, Chicago.
Ravi K. Venkitaraman has joined Response Analysis Corporation, Princeton, NJ, as senior statistician. Previously he was with Chilton Research Services.
Virgil D. Thornhill has been appointed director, client service of the Marketing Models division of the NPD Group, Inc., Port Washington, NY.
Chadwick DeVries has been named manager of the phone room at Barnes Research, Inc. in Grand Rapids, MI. In addition Dawn Rothley has joined the company as supervisor of the phone room.
Richard W. Steketee Jr. has been named operations vice president at Kennedy Research, Inc., Grand Rapids, MI.
Dr. Beverly Cowart has been awarded the Moskowitz Jacobs Inc. AChemS award for research excellence in the psychophysics of taste and smell. Cowart is an associate member of the Monell Chemical Senses Center located in Philadelphia. Moskowitz Jacobs, a scientific market research firm based on Valhalla, NY, gives the award to a scientist who submits the best body of research and is no more than ten years from his or her Ph.D.
Audits & Surveys, New York City, has promoted Carl Ravitch to executive vice president.
MDS Decision Systems, a part of The MDS Group, named Sam Irvin vice president and Jerry Feldman senior sales consultant of the company's Marketing Analysis division.
Rich Dindorf has been appointed executive vice president of BRXIGlobal. He will operate the firm's new office in New York City. In addition, Harry Wolf has been appointed vice president. He will head BRX/Global's new office in Long Island.