David Spangler, former director of marketing research for Levi Strauss & Co., has been named director of marketing and member services of the Council for Marketing and Opinion Research, Port Jefferson, N.Y.

Ilene A. Ritz has joined the White Plains, N.Y., office of Taylor Nelson Sofres lntersearch as vice president. Peter Hallock has also been named vice president at the White Plains office.

Creamer Dickson Basford (CDB) has appointed Dr. Lloyd Kirban as executive vice president/director of research, heading CDB Research & Consulting, the New York agency's research practice.

Sky Alland, a Columbia, Md., customer loyalty management firm, has named Ray Zukowski chief operating officer.

Cynthia Clarke has been promoted to director of quality at Polaris Marketing Research, Atlanta.

Barbara "Bobby" Klein Womack has been named director of market research at Research Engine, the new market research division of Desbrow & Associates, a Pittsburgh communication and design firm.

Bill Snow has been named vice president of engineering at Active Research, Burlingame, Calif.

SIL - Worldwide MarketingServices, a Delray Beach, Fla., research firm, has named Frans Badenhorst director of operations. In addition, Fulvio Origo has been named international projects manager.

MarketTools, a Sausalito, Calif., research firm, has named Mark Thompson vice president and CFO and John McCrea vice president of worldwide marketing.

Michael Pelaia has been named executive vice president and COO of The Eagle Group, Atlanta, and president of Eagle Research, Atlanta.

Jim Jubelirer has been promoted to vice president of Burke Customer Satisfaction Associates, Cincinnati. In conjunction with a joint venture between ACNielsen Corp., Stamford, Conn., and NetRatings, Inc., Milpitas, Calif., Michael Connors, ACNielsen's vice chairman, has been appointed to the NetRatings board of directors.

Solana Beach, Calif.-based Answers Research, Inc. has named Kenny Kuhn director of business development. He will head the firm's new office in St. Louis.

Sage Research, Inc., Natick, Mass., has named John P. Morency executive vice president of consulting.

Ed Sugar has joined Triton Technology, a Los Angeles research firm, as senior vice president sales and marketing.

Laurence Curtis has been promoted to chief executive of Maritz TRBf, a new Marlow, England-based holding company formed by St. Louis-based Maritz Marketing Research Inc. to support its European research efforts. Janet Kiddle has been promoted to managing director of TRBI. David Jamieson has been promoted to managing director of Maritz Research, another Maritz firm in the U.K.

Catherine Suzanne Dine has been named president, and Carol French executive vice president, of Market Probe Canada, Toronto.

Alliance Research, Cincinnati, has named Melissa Kevorkian senior account director.

New York-based Arbitron has named Margaret Bustell manager, Eastern advertiser/agency services. Jim Tobolski has been promoted to manager, Midwestern advertiser/agency services in Chicago.

Eager Manager Advisory Services, Louisville, Ky., has named Steven Loeffler financial analyst and Daniel Siculan senior project manager. Loeffler will focus on data collection and analysis for the firm's annual Benchmark Studies. Siculan will serve as the manager of branding and positioning research.

Boise, Idaho-based Clearwater Research has named David Grant and Jody Smith evening data collection supervisor. Mike Exinger has been promoted to director of research administration. At the firm's Council, Idaho office, the following promotions were announced: Angela Simpson to project technical assistant, Janette Schill to data collection supervisor, and Heather Kaupanger to supervisor helper.

C&R Research Services, Inc., Chicago, has added four new staff members: Lisa Hutto has joined C&R as an analyst; Estrella Lopez-Brea has joined the firm's Hispanic research group; Sarah Kriger has been named quantitative analyst; and Kathy Janies has joined the firm's Kid Quest group.