Nadim Sadek has joined Research International as its worldwide commercial and strategy director.
Cincinnati-based Marketing Research Services Inc. has added four new employees, naming Jay Bigler senior research analyst; Kate Muehlfeld and Jan Arthur senior project director; and ZoEtta Bulluckscoder.
Australia-based research process outsourcing firm Pulse Group has named Sheikh Zain head of marketing. Jeremy Ng has joined as business development manager. Alim Yassir Yahya has been named multimedia designer. Tan Ling Howe has been hired to expand the firm’s CATI services. And Jacklyn Tan has been promoted to senior client services executive.
Omaha, Neb.-based research firm the MSR Group has named Laura O’Gara vice president of marketing.
Burke, Inc., Cincinnati, has named Judithe Andre account manager. She will work from Burke’s Chapel Hill, N.C., office. Steve Clark has been promoted to senior vice president, data acquisition and processing.
Survey Sampling International, Fairfield, Conn., has appointed Jim FollettCEO.
Gary Dilts has joined J.D. Power and Associates, Westlake Village, Calif., as senior vice president - U.S. automotive.
Dow Jones Indexes, New York, has named Kathleen Delaney senior director of marketing.
Flake-Wilkerson Market Insights, Little Rock, Ark., has named John Stebbins vice president.
Jim Longo has joined Saskatoon-based Itracks as vice president, client development.
Diagnostics Plus, a State College, Pa., research firm, has named James Fong president.
Synovate has named Frank Gabbert vice president of its qualitative division in North America. He will be based in the firm’s Detroit office. Separately, Synovate Healthcare has named Kelly Price head of the Asia Pacific Tandem Oncology Monitor in China, Korea and Australia.
Stamford, Conn., research firm InsightExpress has named Kevin Hill vice president, group director, advertising media.
Baltimore-based research firm B-More Informed has named Kelly Carter executive director of client relations and Sandy Tomak director of research and development.
Online Survey Solution, a division of M/A/R/C Research, Irving, Texas, has added Meg Ryan as director of client development.
Richard Catrone has joined Menlo Park, Calif.-based research firm Knowledge Networks as senior vice president, operations. He will be based in the New York and Cranford, N.J., offices.
Julie Holbein has joined MarketVision Research, Cincinnati, as vice president with a focus on client management and development.
Kimberly Travis has been promoted to senior research associate at Gateway Commercial, a St. Louis real estate services firm.
Cincinnati radio marketing and research firm Critical Mass Media has named Liz Pokora-Sadowsky executive vice president of marketing.
Freedom Interactive, Irvine, Calif., has named Linda Fisk vice president of marketing. Research will be among her new responsibilities.
The NPD Group, Port Washington, N.Y., has named Frank Racioppi vice president of market-level point-of-sale (POS). Sheri McKee has joined NPD as product director of market-level POS. Emil Martinez has been named vice president of business and product development.