On January 20, polling pioneer Burns W. (Bud) Roper died of lung cancer at his home in Bourne, Mass. He was 77. Roper spent more than five decades in polling, joining his father’s firm, Elmo Roper and Associates, after returning from World War II. He later became chairman of the board of the Roper Organization (now RoperASW).
Fanny Gerli has been named director of the new Italy-based health care research division of Taylor Nelson Sofres. She will be based in TNS’ Milan office and will be supported by Associate Director Letizia Galli in Rome.
Peter Johnsen has joined Brain Surgery, an Atlanta marketing consulting firm, as vice president. He was previously vice president of direct-to-consumer research at Market Measures.
Gregory Gordon and Katrina Berezniak have joined L.C. Williams & Associates, a Chicago public relations and research firm, as vice president of research and strategy, and director of research design and analysis, respectively.
Terri-Lyn Hawley has joined the Philadelphia office of Schlesinger Associates as facility director. At the firm’s Boston office, Melissa Goodman has been named senior project director.
In conjunction with its decision to operate as two independent business units with separate management teams, Chicago-based C&R Research has named Robbin Jaklin president; Jeff Berman, executive vice president, and Walt Dickie, executive vice president/chief technology officer. The company’s focus group facilities and phone center will continue to operate under the fieldwork name, with Steve Turner as president; Saul Ben-Zeev as vice president, quality control; Chris de Brauw as vice president, sales and marketing; and Steve Rachel as CFO.
Janice M. Elsesser has been named president of Minneapolis-based GfK Custom Research Inc. Patricia Hughes has been named executive vice president, client development.
Fairfield, Conn.-based Dialogue Resource, Inc., has named Janna Ritzcovan research associate.
Groups Plus, Inc., a Wilton, Conn., research firm, has named Peter Reville managing director.
A restructuring at Millward Brown Asia Pacific has created a four-member Asia Pacific board. Andreas Sperling (regional CEO), Adrian Gonzalez (regional COO), Jamie Lord (regional business development and marketing director) and Luka Softa (regional CFO) are now in charge of the strategic direction of Millward Brown across Asia Pacific. With the managing directors from the eight offices in the region, they also form a marketing board responsible for client relations, new business development and marketing. Both boards are chaired by Andreas Sperling.
Separately, Fabrizio Giordano has been named Millward Brown’s managing director, leisure and entertainment business for mainland Europe. In this role, he will assume responsibility for CIMEC Millward Brown, the joint venture company set up in Spain between Millward Brown and Iberautor to promote leisure and entertainment research. Damien Fleming, currently client service manager at Millward Brown Brazil moves into Giordano’s regional Latin American role.
In addition, Andreas Grotholt has been named managing director, Australia and New Zealand, and managing director at the firm’s Sydney office. Hugh Bloch has been named president, Millward Brown Japan. Stephen Jenke has been named managing director, national operations, including responsibility for project management and NFS Queensland. Mark Zuker has been named director, project management, Australia. Promotions in the U.K.: Debbie Newbould to business development director, qualitative; and Nick Bull to group account director. Promotions in the U.S.: Graham Kerr to executive vice president of Millward Brown’s eastern U.S. region; Eric Villain to executive vice president of the firm’s western U.S. region; Lynn Stables to senior vice president, general manager of the Los Angeles office; and Lisa Parente to director of marketing communications for Millward Brown North America.
Denver-based INgather research has named Michelle Radigan and Brian Andrews facility manager and operations/IT coordinator, respectively.
Renaud Laune will manage client service at the Paris office of New York-based research firm Ziment.
New York-based brand consulting firm the Interbrand Corporation has named Lisa Ponte Fazio managing director of its research practice.
Raymond Pettit has joined Seurat Company, a Washington Township, N.J., precision marketing outsourcing firm, as senior vice president of managed analytics.
Janet Nelson has joined Maritz Research, St. Louis, as account manager for its hospitality group.
Lynne Bartos has joined Ipsos as senior vice president, client development, in the technology and communications sector of the company’s U.S. services division.
Bob Bisciglia has joined Cincinnati-based MarketVision Research as vice president, focused on research in the health care and technology iiadustries.
Jon Wilkins has joined U.K.-based research firm Synovate as director of branded solutions. The firm also named Stuart Jones human resources director for Europe, Middle East and Africa.