John Mason has been named vice president of the Chicago marketing group of NFO Research, Toledo. He was formerly general manager of the Majers Corp. office, Chicago.
Ron Arden and Nick Mysore have joined HTI Customs Research, a division of the NPD Group, Port Washington, NY, as account executives. Arden was formerly with Decisions Center and Mysore was with NFO Research.
Kathleen Moran has been promoted to research director, Washington office of Opinion Research Corp., from research associate.
James Carter, vice president, general counsel, has been named to the board of directors, Nielsen Media Research, Northbrook, IL.
Corinne Maginnis has been named to the new position of corporate senior vice president, from executive vice president, production services, Marketing Research Group. Also, Jack Wolf has been named to the new position of corporate senior vice president, database marketing, from executive vice president, marketing services group, Dallas.
Gary Johnson has joined Rockwood Research, St. Paul, MN, as account manager. He was formerly with Plasman & Assoc., Minneapolis.
Jeffrey Harris has joined International Communications Research, Inc., Media, PA as vice president. He was previously vice president, client services, at R.H. Bruskin Assoc.
Mel Miller has been named president of Mel Miller & Associates, New York, a qualitative research company. He was formerly doing qualitative research work at ASK Assoc.
Alan A. Roberts recently retired from Continental Grain Co., Chicago, as manager of market research, Wayne Feed Div.
Larry Herman has joined Guideline Research Corp., New York, as vice president. He was formerly vice president and group head with Admar, New York. Joining Guideline Research West, Los Angeles, is Steven Sato as general manager, vice president. He was formerly with Lieberman West, Los Angeles.
Robert McCann will join SAMI as senior vice president, sales & marketing. McCann has been heading the marketing and development efforts of ScanAmerica, a joint venture between SAMI/Burke and Arbitron Ratings. Prior to his ScanAmerica assignment, he served Burke Marketing Services in a general management position for the panel and media services division of the Test Marketing Group and as regional manager of AdTel. He is a former partner of Booz Alien & Hamilton, senior production manager at Colgate Palmolive and account manager at Grey Advertising.
Stephen J. Beer has joined Commercial Federal Savings & Loan Assn., Omaha, as marketing research manager. He was formerly head of his own research consulting firm.
Amy Blonder has joined Newman-Stein Inc., marketing research, as group head. She was formerly group manager at Data Development Corp., New York City.
Christine R. Hanneke has been promoted to senior research associate at Fleishman-Hillard Inc. - Opinion Research Div., St. Louis. She was formerly research associate at the firm.
Karl Preuss has been assigned to a new position as senior vice president, general manager, Warehouse Withdrawal Services. Preuss joined SAMI in 1971 and most recently headed sales for the company.
Chip Certain has joined Research Alliance, San Francisco, as senior associate. He was formerly manager, consumer research, Dole Food Co.