E. Kirk Ward, director of consumer and trade research for Hershey Chocolate North America, and William "Jay" Wilson, chairman and CEO of Roper-Starch Worldwide, have been named to the advisory board of the University of Texas at Arlington's Master of Science in Marketing Research degree program.
Joseph P. Diamond has joined Migliara/Kaplan Associates, a health care marketing research firm with offices in Princeton, N.J. and Owings Mills, Md., as vice president. The company has also added David Bracho, David Bruning, Anne Donusz, Christine Huffman, Rob Steen and Amy Sullivan as project managers; Andrea McDonough and Glenda Grob as senior project managers; David Moak as account manager; and Alicia Hines as project manager/managed care.
Group Dynamics In Focus, Inc., Bala Cynwyd, Pa., has appointed Robin Kaplan to its board of directors with search analyst. Gregory Wills, vice president and senior consultant, will manage Aragon’s new Denver office.
Erik Andersen has rejoined Custom Research Inc., Minneapolis, as vice president. In addition, Randi Stillman has joined the firm as senior research associate and John Segala has been named research associate.
Bill Reader has been named account manager for Polk’s Research Sampling Group in Southfield, Mich.
KGA Advertising, Middletown, Conn., has named Michael Fox as account planner.
Walker Information, Indianapolis, Ind., has named Jeffrey B. Walz vice president, client services within the energy, communications and technology client services group.
Soumya Roy has joined Maritz Marketing Research Inc., St. Louis, as senior research analyst.
ACNielsen Corporation, Stamford, Conn., has named Darial R. Sneed vice president, investor relations.
Paul Cook has been named director of marketing research and Melissa Ewen has been named project manager at Food Insights, a Cordova, Tenn., research firm.
Dr. Carol Raffel has been promoted to vice president of qualitative services at Burke Marketing Research, Cincinnaiti, Ohio. In addition, Lori Turner and Kirsten Bech have been promoted to account executive at the Cincinnati office and Beth Dauch has been promoted to account executive at the Dallas office. Dan Evarrs has been promoted to senior account executive in the Cincinnati office of Burke Customer Satisfaction Associates.
Capstone Research, lnc., Lyndhurst, N.J., has promoted Bonnie Reenstra to manager, product retrieval services.
Atlanta-based Elrick & Lavidge has announced a number of staff additions and promotions. At its San Francisco office, Todd Jacobson has been named vice president, Timothy Gaughan has been named account director, and Partrice Sandoval has been named senior project manager. In Atlanta, Teresa Minshew has been named project manager-MSD and Denise Krause has been promoted to project manager. Other promotions include: Brian White to vice president at the Kansas City office; Pat Taylor to branch operations manager at the Chicago office; and Eric Hogue to account manager at the Dallas office.