Core Insights Research and Marketing Strategy LLC, Boulder, Colo., has promoted Emily Steider to study coordinator.
BrainJuicer Group PLC, a London research company, has appointed Alex Hunt as vice president, U.S. client service. Hunt will be based in New York.
Polaris Marketing Research Inc., Atlanta, has hired Ashley Popham as a data analyst and Helen Pham as a research assistant.
Knowledge Networks, a Menlo Park, Calif., research company, has made several new hires: Wendy Mansfield, vice president, client service, government and academic research; Stephan Benzekri, associate vice president, client service, pharma/health care; Sara Doran, associate vice president, client service, pharma/health care; and Joe Richardson and Eric Robertson, research analyst, project management.
Ina Noble has been named vice president, strategic account management, of TVG Marketing Research and Consulting, Dresher, Pa.
Hypothesis, a Los Angeles research firm, has named Larry LevinCOO.
Paris research company Ipsos has hired Mary Kaye O’Brien as vice president. O’Brien will be based in Seattle.
Rochester, N.Y., research company Harris Interactive has appointed Stefan Schmelcher as president, global loyalty solutions. Schmelcher will be based in Munich, Germany.
Denver research company iModerate has hired Shannon Audino as senior director, client development.
Lightspeed Research, Princeton, N.J., has added three new members to its Wimbledon, U.K., team: Angela Bonora, project manager; Puja Myne, sales coordinator; and Matthew Seabrook, client operations manager.
Innerscope Research, Boston, has hired Andre Marquis as senior vice president, sales and marketing.
Millward Brown, a Naperville, Ill., research company, has named Bernd Büchner managing director, Germany.
Roger Green and Associates Inc. (RG+A), a New Hope, Pa., research company, has hired John S. Clark as senior vice president, client strategist, and Katie Ka as associate director, research. RG+A has also promoted Season Stuffle to director, research operations.
IMS Health, a Norwalk, Conn., research company, has elected Bradley T. Sheares to its board of directors.
Cal Martin has joined Luth Research, San Diego, as a consultant.
The Market Research Society, London, has named Rita Clifton to be its next president. Clifton is currently with New York research firm Interbrand.
InsightExpress, a Stamford, Conn., research company, has promoted three employees within its digital media measurement group: Harmen Westra to senior director, Nancy Dillon to Northwest regional manager and Alicia Allijan to senior account executive.
Synergy Research Group, Reno, Nev., has named Sam Alunni and John Armstrong vice president, research.
Jeff Berg has joined MRops, a Doylestown, Pa., research company, to lead its MR-Communities division.
Interpret, a Santa Monica, Calif., research company, has hired Yuanzhe “Michael” Cai as vice president, video games.
Verilogue Inc., a Horsham, Pa., research company, has promoted David Franke to director, insights and analytics.
John Kelly, chairman of Market Direction International, Surrey, U.K., has been elected an emeritus director of the Marketing Research Institute International (MRII), St. Louis. The MRII board of directors has also elected the following new directors: David Haynes, Western Wats, Orem, Utah; Michael Lautenschlager, The GfK Group, Nuremberg, Germany; and Wayne McCullough, Intelligent Data Mining and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Josh Mendelsohn has rejoined Chadwick Martin Bailey, a Boston research firm, as vice president, marketing.
Greenfield Online Inc., a Wilton, Conn., research company, has hired Sam Rai as director, client development.