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Walker Information, Indianapolis, has promoted Brian Kovacs to chief information officer and senior vice president. In addition, Sean Clayton has been promoted to business team leader for one of the company’s technology industry teams.

NFO WorldGroup, Northwood, Ohio, has named Linda M. Schmidt vice president and general manager for NFO USA’s Atlanta office.

San Diego Surveys, lnc., is pleased to announce that Joyce Coyle has completed 24 years of service as director of the medical/healthcare department.

Curt Stenger has joined Research International as director, marketing sciences, in the firm’s Cambridge, Mass., office. Also at the Cambridge office, Bob Mills has been named marketing scientist, and Lynne Castronuovo has been named senior research manager. In New York, Kirk McDonald has been named senior research manager.

Susan Sternberg has joined New York-based Visualizer Multimedia Research as director of client service.

GfK Custom Research Inc., Minneapolis, has named Roger Brooks vice president, business development, at the firm’s San Francisco office.

New York-based advertising and marketing information firm CMR has named Carl Dickens senior vice president for the media group.

Consumer Pulse, Inc., Birmingham, Mich., has promoted Leslie Dyer to vice president, operations.

Taylor Nelson Sofres has named Gábor Duránszkai as managing director of TNS Modus in Hungary.
Dan Coates has been named sales director for Chicago-based SPSS MR North America.

Opinion Research Corporation, Princeton, N.J., has named Joel H. Goren global managing director, brand strategy.

Stephen Palacios has joined San Francisco research firm Cheskin as director of business development within the firm’s Consumer Goods & Services Studio. In addition, Greg McHugh will fill the newly created position of COO at Cheskin in charge of all internal operations. And Susan Faulkner has been named strategic director.

Braintree, Mass., research firm Perseus Development Corporation has named Andre M. Boisvert to its board of directors. Boisvert is chairman of the board of Sagent Technology.

Forrester Research, Inc., Cambridge, Mass., has named Warren Hadley chief financial officer and Timothy J. Moynihan as general counsel, succeeding Susan Whirty Maffei, who will remain as a consultant to Forrester for special projects with the chief executive officer and board of directors.

Cincinnati research firm Burke, Inc. has promoted John Seal to vice president, advanced methods.

NetRatings, Inc., a Milpitas, Calif., Internet audience measurement firm has named George Durney senior vice president, sales; Manish Bhatia, senior vice president, product marketing and business development; Sean Kaldor, vice president, analytics and corporate marketing; and Barbara Jarzab, vice president and chief of measurement science.