Sir Bernard Audley, founder of U.K.-based AGB Research, died on January 4 at the age of 83.

Scott Migli has joined Wilson Research Strategies, Washington, D.C., as vice president.

Research firm Morpace Inc., Farmington Hills, Mich., has appointed Lee Swiatkowski as client services director, Dale Wilson as research director and promoted Tricia Rodgers to vice president.

Survey Sampling International, Fairfield, Conn., has appointed Volker Andresen as marketing manager Europe.

Research and development firm AlphaDetail, San Mateo, Calif., has added Beth Thompson as director of the firm’s qualitative research department.

Gilmore Research Group’s Focus Division, Portland, Ore., has added Donna Glosser to manage the division and oversee qualitative operations and facilities in Seattle and Portland.

Nick Polk has joined Edison, N.J., research firm Schlesinger Associates as facility director at the firm’s new Houston focus group facility.

Valient Healthcare, Rochester, N.Y., has named Allison Tait manager, health care sector business development.

Vancouver research firm Vision Critical has named Ida Goodreau, president and CEO of  Vancouver Coastal Health, to its board of directors.

Lightspeed Research, Basking Ridge, N.J., has added John Short as director of panel operations.

Atlanta research firm CMI announced that Roger Bacik has retired as senior vice president of marketing in charge of the company’s new client development.

ICT Group-Research Services, Philadelphia, has added Marcus Turner as director of business development.

Bobby Richard has been named senior project manager at Research Results Inc., Fitchburg, Mass.

Mansour Fahimi has joined Marketing Systems Group, Fort Washington, Pa., as vice president, statistical research services. He is based out of Rockville, Md.

Synovate Healthcare, London, has added Greg Chu as head of U.S. custom research.

Larry Fleischman has joined GCR Custom Research, Portland, Ore., as director of business development, based in Austin, Texas.

iModerate, Denver, has hired Robert Liguori as director of strategic accounts.

Germany-based GfK Group has appointed Debra A. Pruent as the management board member responsible for custom research activities in North America.

Denver advertising firm Thomas Taber & Drazen has named Paul Leinberger senior vice president, strategic planning.

Observant LLC, Boston, has named John Hartman vice president and Jennifer Potter director.

Sue Kroll has been named president, worldwide marketing, at Warner Bros. Pictures, Burbank, Calif.

Synovate has named Hans Raemdonck as global head of decision systems.

Diane Kosobud has been named incoming co-chair of the board of directors for the Council for Marketing and Opinion Research (CMOR), Washington, D.C. CMOR also announced the election of Jane Moore as incoming co-chair of its government affairs committee.

Andrea Alfonsi has been named president of New York-based research company Medefield America.

Quirk’s Marketing Research Review has hired Alice Davies as directory manager and Emily Cook as content editor.