David Schuster has joined Maryland Pennysaver Group, Inc., as group research director.
Vaughn Stakes has been appointed branch manager for Marketeam Associates’ Shaker Heights, Ohio, market research, phone, field and focus group operations.
Kathleen Fischbach has been promoted to branch manager for the Minneapolis office of Quality Controlled Services.
Rx Remedy, Inc., Westport, Conn., the parent company of Remedy Research, has appointed Peter Hoover president and chief operating officer.
Geoffrey Engert, director of business development and market research at Arbination Forums, Inc., Tampa, Fla., has been elected co-chair of the Property and Casualty Subrogation Work Group within the ASC X12N Insurance Subcommittee.
Tadaaki Funayama and Brian Heywood, who work at the J.D. Power Japan office, have been promoted to partners with J.D. Power and Associates, Agoura Hills, Calif. At the firm’s Torrance, Calif., office, David Letson has been promoted to partner-in-charge.
Robert L. McCann, Jr. has been named senior vice president-corporate planning and development and a member of Stamford, Conn.-based ACNielsen Corp.’s Operations Leadership Committee.
Dan Paul-Heskins has been named partner of Bozell Worldwide, Advertising. He has been a strate#c planner with Bozell’s New York office since January 1996.’
Ronin Research Services, Princeton, N.J., has named Jill Polymeropoulos director and senior vice president.
Migliara/Kaplan Associates, a Baltimore, Md., health care market research firm, has promoted Gerarda Collins and Barry Ceff to vice president.
Elaine Hanson Cardenas has joined Chilton Research Services, Radnor, Pa., as a research consultant for its government/non-profit team.
Elrick & Lavidge, Atlanta, has announced a number of staff additions and promotions. In the Atlanta office, Amy Afford has been named project director, Anita Shaffer has been named moderator, Jean Gaudreau has been named project manager, and Chris Echols has been named senior accountant. In the Chicago office, Toni Oster has been promoted to goup leader and Debbie Santiers to project manager. In the Kansas City office, Terri Catlett has been promoted to account-manager and Elizabeth Oldweiler to account executive. In the Dallas office, Michele DeKinder-Smith has been named account director.
Jeff Ellis has been promoted to director, customer value assessment for Maritz Marketing Research Inc.’s Performance Measurement Group. In addition, Matthew Knain has joined Maritz as director of packaged goods research.
Traci Sinnwell has been appointed research coordinator at Aragon Consulting Group (ACG) in St. Louis. The firm also appointed Lawrence A. Felix Jr. vice president and senior consultant. Felix will work out of the firm’s San Francisco-area office. In addition, Robert Souders has been appointed ACG’s assistant controller and John W. Adams has been named vice president and senior consultant.
David L. Edgell has been appointed executive director of the Tourism Division of Ruf Strategic Solutions, Olathe, Kan.
Survey Sampling, Inc., Fairfield, Conn., has named Christopher DeAngelis to the newly created position of national sales manager. Larry Chavis has joined the firm’s sales department as client service specialist. And Peter Brownstein has been promoted to account executive.
ICT Group, Langhome, Pa., has appointed James Shannon president of ICT International Sales; Dorothy O’Byrne business development goup manager of ICT Europe; and Carlos Terud vice president of ICT Spantel.
ACNielsen Corp., Stamford, Conn., has reorganized its Asia-Pacific region and named a new leadership team. Asia-Pacific Chairman K.N. Tang will oversee the area of strategic business units. Malcolm Spry has been promoted to the new position of goup chief executive - Pacific, encompassing all of the firm’s Australia and New Zealand businesses. William Pulver has been promoted to managing director - Pacific. Bienvenido Niles Jr. will serve as managing director of the Southeast Asia sub region.
Diana Nicholls has been appointed senior project manager with Market Directions, Inc., New Castle, Pa., and will oversee the firm’s expansion into a new facility.
Steven McFadden has been named president and COO of ICR, Media, Pa. With the move, Fred Soulas will become chairman and CEO. New senior vice presidents include Lynn Spitzer and Patricia McCue. New vice presidents include Daniel Soulas and Jane Cutler.