Debra Portz has joined Taylor Nelson Sofres Intersearch in Chicago as a vice president.
Terri Maciolek has been promoted to vice president at Strategic Marketing Corp., a Bala Cynwyd, Pa., pharmaceutical research firm.
Lisa Wood has joined Arlington, Va.-based Hagler Bailly in its market and survey analysis group, PHB Hagler Bailly, Inc., Madison, Wis., as principal.
Fred Bove has joined San Francisco research firm Socratic Technologies as executive vice president and account executive.
Kelly Purselley has been promoted to product manager at Decision Analyst, an Arlington, Texas, research firm. In addition, Melissa DeLoach has been named project director.
Joe Toole has been promoted to vice president at Cincinnati, Ohio-based Burke Customer Satisfaction Associates.
David Fishken has joined the Sensory Services Division of Boston-based Shuster Laboratories as its lead sensory specialist and market researcher.
Arthur Zimbalist has been appointed president of Meyers Research Center, New York.
Irwin Broh & Associates, a Des Plaines, Ill., research firm, has promoted David Waitz to president and CEO. Irwin Broh remains chairman. In addition, Robert Rowe has been promoted to executive vice president, Michael Saletta has joined the firm as vice president, and Louis Cassuto has been named controller.
Steve Cheren has joined Brintnall & Nicolini, a Philadelphia health care consulting and research firm, in the new position of director of new business development and planning.
Linda Waldman has joined FRC Research Group, New York, as a senior vice president with client service responsibilities.
Eric Halata has joined New York research firm Schulman, Ronca & Bucuvalas, Inc., as vice president and lead strategist in its Customer Loyalty Research Group.
Delice Bolotin has been promoted to vice president in Toledo, Ohio-based NFO Research's Greenwich Marketing Group, Greenwich, Conn. In addition,Terry Schweizer has been promoted to vice president in the company's Chicago Marketing Group.
Digital Research, Kennebunk, Maine, has named Robert Cuzner research director.
Sky Alland, a Columbia, Md., customer relationship management firm, has named Jeanne Hoover vice president in the firm's new West Coast office in Laguna Hills, Calif.
David Fenichell has been named senior vice president for online research at New York-based Roper Starch Worldwide. In addition, Josephine Holz has been appointed vice president in the film's custom research division.
Elrick & Lavidge Marketing Research, Atlanta, has named Burr Brown senior vice president and director of its Business Development Group.
Gregg Lindahl has been promoted to executive vice president and COO at The Eagle Group, an Atlanta research, software, consulting and business services firm.
Jeanine Douglas and Nan Martin have been promoted to senior vice president at Market Facts, Inc., Arlington Heights, Ill. In addition, Larry Labash has been promoted to executive vice president.
Memphis, Tenn., research firm Message Factors has named Mary Day president.
Information Resources, Inc., Chicago, has named Steven Aase, Michael McDonald and David Paragamian senior vice president.
J. Brad Wilson has been elected president of the Society of Insurance Research.