Home improvement retailer Lowe’s Companies Inc., Mooresville, N.C., has appointed Jocelyn Wong as CMO.
Target Corporation, Minneapolis, has promoted Rick Gomez to executive vice president and CMO.
Software firm Internet of Things Inc., Toronto, accepted the resignation of Richard Zhou as director, who left to pursue other interests.
Customer experience company MaritzCX, Salt Lake City, has appointed Michael Sinoway as president and CEO. Sinoway succeeds Carine Clark, former president and CEO, who stepped down.
Alexandria, Va., political and public affairs research firm Public Opinion Strategies has promoted Vice Presidents Jim Hobart and Micah Roberts to partners at the firm.
Peter Goldschmidt, president of Sandoz U.S. and head of North America for Germany-based pharmaceuticals company Sandoz Inc., was court-appointed to Nuremberg, Germany, researcher GfK’s Supervisory Board on Dec. 2. Goldschmidt’s appointment completes the Supervisory Board after a vacancy arose when former chairman Arno Mahlert resigned on Sept. 13 and Ralf Klein-Bölting was elected as his replacement.
Brian Krier has accepted the position of marketing research director for Ben Franklin Technology Partners’ Transformation Business Services Network. Ben Franklin Technology Partners’ is a technology-based economic development program based in University Park, Pa.
Complete Research Connection, Columbus, Ohio, has added Johnny McElroy as facility assistant, a dual role that assists both the facility and project management departments.
Integrated data services firm Norstat France has appointed Sorina Jian as senior business development manager and Sylvain Da Costa as senior project manager for its Paris office.
Jonathan Deitch has joined social listening consultancy Bakamo.Social, based in Budapest, Hungary, as CEO and company director.
In Wilton, Conn., Nielsen has named Nancy Ramsey Phillips as chief human resources officer.
Los Angeles researcher SoapBoxSample has promoted Dan Parcon to vice president of operations and Elinor Gaida to vice president of research and analytics.
MFour Mobile Research, Irvine, Calif., has hired Hristo Botev and Michael Dennis as software engineers to join the labs and engineering team. The firm has also named Celeste Blanchard and Holly Wong to its operations team to contribute to the process of programming, fielding and data reporting for clients’ research projects.
Chicago-based retail consumer insights firm SPINS has added Kelly Marion as senior vice president of customer experience.
Technology company Acxiom, Little Rock, Ark., has appointed the following to its audience solutions division: Marc Fanelli as group vice president; and Chandos Quill and Karen Caulfield as vice presidents of global data.
LRW (Lieberman Research Worldwide), Los Angeles, has promoted Jeff Reynolds to president and COO of SWHoldings, the holding company for LRW businesses. Additionally, Sandy Wax has joined LRW as executive vice president and COO, reporting to Reynolds.
Simmons Research, New York, has added Lois Brennan and Grant Ligon as account directors and has appointed Jackie Anderson, formerly vice president of custom research, as chief client officer.
The board of the Market Research Institute International, Ann Arbor, Mich., has elected Jon Last, founder and president of Sports and Leisure Research Group, as board president for 2017. He succeeds Lisa Courtade, executive director, global customer and brand insights for Merck, who becomes immediate past president. The board also elected Jeffrey Henning, CEO of Researchscape, as president-elect and Michael Mermelstein, executive vice president of Nichols Research, as treasurer. Naomi Grewal (Facebook), Jonathan Lepisto (dunnhumby) and Bill MacElroy (Socratic Technologies) were also elected, replacing retiring board members Chuck Dodson (ADM), Roger Green (RG+A) and Cathy Scott (Kimberly-Clark). Dodson, who previously served as president and ex officio subject matter expert, was elected board member emeritus. Wayne McCullough (College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University), also a past president, was elected ex officio subject matter expert.
Carol DiBattiste has joined Reston, Va., firm comScore as general counsel and chief privacy and people officer.
Hanover Research, Arlington, Va., appointed Anil Prahlad as chief content officer.
20|20 Research, Nashville, Tenn., appointed Michael Steinberg as executive vice president, business development for the company’s technology and iModerate divisions.
Joanne Van Vranken has been named project and community manager for online panel myCLEARopinion.
Mike MacLeod has joined San Francisco researcher AYTM (Ask Your Target Market) as director of business development.
Marketing communications agency ChizComm Ltd., Toronto, has appointed Carine Sroujian as director of marketing and communications.
Research consultancy Market Strategies International, Detroit, has promoted Paul Hartley to SVP, managing director of the technology and telecommunications division. He is assuming the role vacated by Jean Malarkey, who announced her retirement. Additionally, Leigh Admirand has joined the tech and telecom team as a senior vice president.
Chicago-based retail consumer insights firm SPINS has added Anissa Buckley to its product library team to accelerate products and services for North American brands and retailers.
Syracuse, N.Y., research firm KS&R has elected Mike Bard to its board of directors.
In New York, Andrew Feigenson has been named chief revenue officer for Nielsen Catalina Solutions.
Research consultancy Incite appointed three new hires in the last quarter of 2016. The San Francisco team added principals Jenni Forbes and John Tearle, who join from the firm’s London headquarters. Incite also added associate Caroline Aulis to its team. Additionally, the firm’s New York office is moving into a larger space in Manhattan by the end of Q1 2017.
U.K. technology and professional services firm MARU Group has appointed Steve Brockway as managing director of MARU Operations Group UK, while Liz Boffey has been appointed managing director of Maru/edr.
Netherlands-based customer insights agency SKIM has named Christina Liao as vice president of product development and innovation. She will be based in Atlanta.
In London, research and consulting company Phronesis Partners has appointed Alan Gray as VP - client success.
Customer agency C Space, Boston, has named Jessica DeVlieger, the company’s senior vice president of sales and marketing, as president of C Space in the Americas. DeVlieger assumes the role previously held by Howard Kogan, who will take on the role of global COO of C Space.
In Washington, D.C., customer experience technology firm EXLRT has named Karl Johnson as managing director of U.S. operations.
Boise, Idaho, retailer Albertsons Companies has named Narayan Iyengar as senior vice president, digital marketing and e-commerce.
In the U.K., researcher IRI has appointed Anthony Graham as executive vice president of international solutions and innovations. Graham will replace Lynda Gammell, who has led the solutions and innovations team in Europe for six years and will return to the U.S. to take on a new role at IRI, leading the product management of IRI’s Shopper KnowledgeBase.
Framingham, Mass., research and consulting services firm IDC Government Insights has appointed Mark Zannoni as research director for Smart Cities and Transportation within IDC’s Smart Cities Strategies research service.
Paul Allen, executive VP at Olson Research Group in Yardley, Pa., will serve as 2017 president of the Pharmaceutical Marketing Research Group.
Research company Precision Opinion, Las Vegas, has added Christopher Brogan and Kevin Unter to the Precision Analytics and Consulting Division.
Honeoye Falls, N.Y., research firm KJT Group has appointed Cindy McElroy as research director.
In New York, researcher Ipsos has appointed Amy Fenton as CMO in North America.
Complete Research Connection in Columbus, Ohio, has added Nathan Smith to its project services team, assisting with project management and facility logistics.
Marketing software company Bridg, Los Angeles, has appointed Mike Horowitz as chief product officer.