David Bell is the new client services director at Marketing Emluations Inc., Port Washington, N.Y. Bell will handle business development and serve clients for the company.

Jill W. Polymeropoulos has joined Response Analysis Corp., Princeton, N.J., as a vice president in the firm's telecommunications group. She will direct research projects and develop new business for Response Analysis, specializing in telecommunications and advertising research.

David Kalmus has moved into the Gardena, Calif., Automotive Research Group office of St. Louis-based Maritz Marketing Research. Kalmus is a founder of Auto Quest Services, a financial education service for consumer purchasing, and Marketscan International Inc., and automotive marketing research and planning organization.

Lisa Hammer has been promoted to vice president - research at Marketing & Research Resources Inc., Frederick, Md. She is responsible for the daily operations of the company's MIS and research divisions, including a 32-station, CATI-equipped telephone center.

Allan Vivian has taken the position of vice president at Nordhaus Research Inc., Southfield, Mich., while R. Scott Snow has signed on as a senior project director. Vivian comes from Brand Consulting Group. Snow comes from J.D. Power and Associates.

Ronald L. Tatham, the chairman and CEO of Burke Marketing Research Inc., Cincinnati, is latest appointee to the University of Texas at Arlington's burgeoning advisory board for its master of science in marketing research program.

Bridget O. Armstrong has been promoted vice president - marketing at NFO Research Inc., Greenwich, Conn. She runs the company's Chicago Marketing Group and will oversee business conducted in a Midwest territory that includes Illinois and Wisconsin.
 
Deborah Allen and Fran Firth have joined STAT Resources Inc., Boston, while Shaun Illingworth, Ph.D., has been promoted by the company. Allen is serving as director of marketing and sales. Firth has been installed in the newly created position of manager of client services. Illingworth has been moved up from manager to director of research services.

Kathleen Henderson has been promoted to vice president - product development at Healthcare Communications Inc., Princeton, N.J.

Jeffrey D. Clark has joined Response Analysis Corp., Princeton, N.J., as account executive with the firm's Organizational Performance Division.

Kris Nelson has joined Miller Meester Advertising, Minneapolis, as senior vice president for planning and research. In addition, Eric Peterson has joined the firm as research manager.

Elizabeth Riegel has been named director of the Super Group San Francisco office. Super Group, a division of Conway Milliken & Associates, focuses on consumer-based ideation and concept development. In addition, Erika Callahan was named director of the Super Group Los Angeles office.

Waldbillig & Besteman, a Madison, Wis., ad agency, has added Ann Coates to its staff as marketing research coordinator.

Barbara Caplan and Jon Berry have joined the staff of Roper Starch Worldwide. Caplan will serve as senior vice president, director of client services. Berry will be the director of editorial services for the Roper syndicated services group.

ICT Group, Inc., Langhorne, PA, has appointed Carl E. Smith as its senior vice president of finance and administration and chief financial officer.

Scott Barnett has been promoted to account executive in client services at Phone Base Research. Fort Collins, Colo.

Roger Bedessie has joined Higginbotham Associates Inc., a Scottsdale, Ariz., research firm, as general manager. The company also announced that Kirsten Bech has chosen to pursue her career elsewhere.

The Matrix Group, a Lexington, Ky., research firm, has added Laura Pikel to its staff as research analyst.

Forrester Research. Inc., Cambridge, Ma., has promoted several top analysts. Stuart D. Woodring has been named director. Global 2,000 Research Services. John C. McCarthy has been named director of research, New Customer Connection. Bobby Cameron will succeed Woodring as director of the Software Strategy Service. Paul D. Callahan is now director of Network Strategy Service.

Cindy Glenn has been named director of RMA Research, a new division of Rawle Murdy Associates, Inc., a Charlotte, N.C., marketing, advertising and public relations firm.

Sheila Smith has joined Consumer Pulse, Inc., as director of the firm's Detroit field office and Universal Mall location.