Blue Yonder Research has appointed Polly Jackson-Blease as associate director, qualitative.
DVJ Insights has appointed Lola Willems and Dominique Gijsbertsen as research experts and Jelmer Wit and Pete Canning as client consultants.
Insights consultancy Human8 has appointed Asha Pope as people and culture director for its U.S. operations.
Emporia Research has appointed Nicole Vista and Nikita Capistrano as project delivery associates.
Creative performance platform Hunch has appointed Gareth O’Neill as chief business officer.
Unimrkt Healthcare has promoted Alexander Clive Parkman to head, global sales, health care research.
Neuroscience and AI company Neurons has appointed Kayla Neto as senior account executive and Nikolai Kalistratov and Leonid Yeromin as senior full-stack engineers.
Emporia Research has appointed Nicole Vista and Nikita Capistrano as project delivery associates.
Creative performance platform Hunch has appointed Gareth O’Neill as chief business officer.
Unimrkt Healthcare has promoted Alexander Clive Parkman to head, global sales, health care research.
Neuroscience and AI company Neurons has appointed Kayla Neto as senior account executive and Nikolai Kalistratov and Leonid Yeromin as senior full-stack engineers.
Predictive advertising company Cadent has appointed Peter Naylor to its board of directors.
Route Research has appointed Ruth Chalisey as director, research.
Material has hired Marisa McMahon as SVP and consumer portfolio lead, Erik Overby as SVP and health care portfolio lead and Mark Burles as SVP focused on technology and B2B companies.
Charles Baylis, co-founder and former CTO of Ascribe, now part of Voxco, has announced his retirement following a pioneering career in text analytics.
Strategic research consultancy 5D has launched 5D-AI, a new division to improve how businesses leverage insights from data. The division will be run by Lyndall Spooner, founder and CEO, Abhishek Jayant, director, technology and operations and Nick Wyatt, data scientist.
Unimrkt Research has appointed Prayrana Kumari Panigrahi, Utpal Rai, Ayush Mayank and Sunidhi Singh as research associates, Laavanya Sharma and Yashika Bhatia as voice quality analysts, Ashita Mahajan as data quality analyst and Sparsh Goyal as presales executive.
Research and planning consultancy STRAT7 Incite has appointed Blake Falcongreen as senior associate, Yoana Petrova as graphic designer and Ned Vodenicharov as qual project manager.
Swift Research has promoted Tom Hollingsworth to research manager.
Healthcare Research Worldwide has appointed Laura Clarke as business support services coordinator.
Basis has appointed Glen Kristensen as VP, Basis consumer, U.S., and Abigail McMillan as manager, Basis Health, U.K.
Catalyse Research has appointed Pranay Cholkar as associate project manager.
Insights company Pureprofile has appointed Guilherme Campello as client development director, based in the U.K.
Research consultancy Protobrand has appointed Lars Pahlman as managing director, Sweden.
Marketing communications agency The Bliss Group has promoted Meghan Busch to group VP and Emma Skultety to VP.
Dig Insights Founders Dominic Atkinson, Michael Edwards and Ian Ash will step back from their day-to-day roles, remaining as owners and continuing to act as consultants, as Co-Founder Paul Gaudette continues as CEO. Dig Insights has also appointed Marcie Connan, EVP, to lead research excellence and Kevin Hare, EVP, to lead client growth and global adoption of its tech platform Upsiide. It has also promoted Kathleen Coll, Razvan Rosu, Lesley Sloggett and Julien Naggar to SVPs.
Research and analytics firm MarketCast has appointed Amy Fenton and Paul Forgue as co-presidents.
MiQ has appointed Marion Hargett as U.S. chief revenue officer.
Massive Wave Research has appointed Mohammed Saleh Bham as division head, health care.
Research company Simpson Carpenter has appointed Leanna Appleby as senior associate director, Chris Warren as senior director, Tristan Farron-Mahon to head, sport insight and innovation and has promoted Sophie Davey to senior research executive.
Circana has appointed Cara Pratt as president, global retail and media.
Amplified Intelligence has appointed Anneliese Urquhart as CEO as Karen Nelson-Field steps down from the role but continues to play a strategic and research role in the business.
TKW Research has appointed Gareth Clark as operations manager, effective June 2.
B2B insights consultancy Adience has appointed Lynsey Showman as head, growth and has promoted James Keeling to SVP and Sally Watts to VP.
Ipsos has appointed Desislava Yordanova as research project management team leader.
Emporia Research has promoted Jason Maddocks to VP, engineering and Jonathan Blanton to VP, strategic accounts.
Advertising automation platform Basis Technologies has named Mike Hoyle as EVP, AI.
Unimrkt Research has appointed Prapakaran Seenivasan as manager, field operations.
Consumer insights platform Zappi has appointed Mike D’Aloia as chief revenue officer.
Research expert network Zintro has hired Alla Rhey Flojo as a project manager.
Semrush has appointed Caroline Tsay to its board as an independent director.
Research and data analytics firm CMB has appointed Santiago Media and Amanda Delgado as senior insights associates.
Basis has appointed Juliana Mckee as research coordinator and Mahee Doshi, Bernado Burnes and Kylie Sabo as associates to its Basis Health team.
Emporia Research has appointed Jordan Savage as software engineer, Natalie Blodgett and Tram Pham as senior client solutions associates and Dianne Sombilon as project delivery associate.
Research agency Pye Tait has promoted Olivia Bray to research manager and Harry Rowntree to senior research executive.
Revenue Analytics has appointed Gotham Majumdar as chief product and technology officer.
Research and strategic consulting agency Smarty Pants has promoted Alejandro Hernández to the role of insights know-it-all.
Nexxt Intelligence | inca has appointed Tim Benner as customer success director, Louis Devane-Waters as senior manager, customer success in the U.K. and Onose Ikekhuah as manager, customer success in Canada. It has also appointed Yang Lu as conversational AI lead, Mahmoud Shahwa as full stack engineer and Dongwan Kim as engineering manager.
Nick Richardson, founder of The Insights Family, has been appointed as entrepreneur in residence at the University of Greater Manchester.
Insight consultancy Lovebrands has appointed Eimear MacGarty as director, based in the U.K.
Konovo, formerly Apollo Intelligence, has added Gadi Lachman to its board of directors.
Data platform Adverity has appointed Lee McCance as chief product officer.
Zappi has appointed Alexander Ganz as product manager, Suzanne Mackie as senior technical writer and Nick Francké as senior customer success manager.
Strategy consultancy The Forge has appointed Mehmet Fidanboylu and Charlie Archer as directors.
Insight consultancy Trinity McQueen has appointed Danielle Hume as managing director.
Mediaworks has appointed Kevin Telford to its executive board as a non-executive director.
Kantar has appointed Andy Gallagher as head of its creative and media business, Singapore.
Polar Insight has appointed Robyn Summers as director, client operations.
Insights consultancy Basis has appointed Louise Naraine as senior project manager and Megan Li as client success director.
Thinks Insight & Strategy has appointed Jessica Atkinson as senior research executive.
International fieldwork agency Q2Q Global has promoted Rebecca Boden to head of sales.
Consumer insights platform Zappi has appointed James Harris as director, GTM enablement.
UX research agency Key Lime Interactive has appointed Ali Mirza as a senior sales executive.
Research company Leger has appointed David Driscoll as EVP and co-leader of Leger USA.
Research firm Orchard has appointed Joe Corace as chief customer officer.
Behavioral data provider RealityMine has appointed David Stanton as chief marketing officer.
Health care insights provider Validation Institute has appointed Al Lewis as CEO.
Insights agency Beano Brain has appointed Laura Christian as commercial insight director.
Ad effectiveness measurement platform DISQO has appointed Claudia Flores as VP, people.
Ipsos has appointed Lauren Barnett as associate director.
Press Ganey Forsta has appointed Luke Williams as chief customer experience and research officer.
Pricing strategy company Priceagent has added Philip Carls and Oscar Carlsson to its board of directors.
Data solutions company Kochava has appointed Peter Naylor to its board of directors.
DVJ Insights has appointed Fons van Workum as account director, Jorge Lopez as client consultant, Alicia Landers as business controller and Tom Diepenhorst as technology lead, The Lab.
Insights firm Burke has promoted Maggie Liddell to VP, client services.
Ipsos has appointed Daren Poole as creative excellence leader in Australia.
Behavioral data company Behavix has hired Julia Roland to support business development across the U.S. East Coast, Liam Corcoran as a strategic advisor, Alex Costakis to support its expansion into the pharmaceutical, advertising and media sectors and John McLaren as a commercial advisor for the West Coast market.
Consumer research platform Attest has appointed Christopher Colley as VP, sales to lead the new business sales teams in the U.S. and U.K.
Breakthrough Research Inc. has promoted Anika Hoff to associate research director.
TV ad measurement company iSpot has appointed Steven Millman as chief scientist.
MMR Research Associates has promoted Catherine Payne to senior account executive.
Consumer insights platform Zappi has appointed Kamogelo Maape as senior QA engineer.
Opinion analytics platform CivicScience has appointed Danielle Rutkin as director, brand and agency sales.
Insights consultancy Human8 has appointed Jonny Ayres as business development lead, U.K.