Tony Wheeler, CEO of Millward Brown for Australia, New Zealand and Japan, died on August 13 at the age of 62. A co-founder of Yann Campbell Hoare Wheeler (YCHW), now Millward Brown, Wheeler died at his Sydney home after a four-month battle against cancer.
Global Market Insite, Seattle, has named Pat Molloy chief technology officer. The firm has also named Tariq Mirza vice president, sales and marketing, GMI Europe, and Andrew Jeavons vice president, GMI USA.
Scott Sweeney has been named vice president at Shop n' Chek, an Atlanta mystery shopping firm.
Northwood, Ohio research firm NFO WorldGroup has named Michele M. Johnson marketing vice president for NFO North America. NFO WorldGroup has also named Robyn Atchison marketing manager for NFO North America’s Atlanta office.
E-Poll, Encino, Calif., has named Amber Marks research director/client services and promoted Susan Hwang to marketing director.
Galloway Research, San Antonio, Texas, has promoted Monica Pang to project supervisor in the firm’s telephone department.
Boston ad agency Hill Holliday has named Bruce Godfrey senior vice president, director of market research.
Mill Valley, Calif., research firm MarketTools has named Peter Daboll president of its newly formed consumer packaged goods division. The firm also named David S. Biernbaum senior vice president of sales for the new division.
New York research firm Taylor Nelson Sofres has named Tacis Gavoyannis worldwide head of its telecoms sector. The firm has also appointed Arno Hummerston worldwide head of its interactive solutions division.
Neil Schwartz has joined TNS Intersearch and Market Development as vice president, business development. He will be based in the Torrance, Calif., office.
Cincinnati qualitative research firm Understanding UnLtd. has added Noelle VonderBrink and Elizabeth Jarosz to its research team. Beth Hoff has joined the firm as accountant/bookkeeper.
Previously based in France and the U.K., Amaury de Conde, managing director of TNS Worldwide, has relocated to Taylor Nelson Sofres’ Horsham, Pa., office.
Eagle Research has promoted DeLynn Newberg to director of qualitative research at the firm’s Denver office. In addition, Rachel Webster has been named manager of qualitative research at the Denver office. At the firm’s Atlanta office, Eleanor Poore has been named qualitative director.
Deerfield Beach, Fla.-based Symmetrical Holdings, Inc., parent company of Simmons Market Research Bureau and SYmmetrical Resources, has named Thomas Birch chief financial officer.
MORPACE international, Inc. has named Tim Taylor vice president of its Yee/Minard strategic marketing research team in Farmington Hills, Mich.
Polaris Marketing Research, Atlanta, has promoted Vicki Stuart to senior data specialist.
Research firm Guideline Chicago, Inc., has named Michelle Schimpff associate project director and promoted Beth Wilson to senior vice president.
Warren Schultz has been named national manager, network radio, advertiser/agency services, at Arbitron Inc., New York.
New York-based Visualizer Multimedia Research has named Jim Fleekenstein as its managing director.
Chicago-based SPSS Inc. has named Louis Davidson vice president and international controller and Terrence Schohn vice president of corporate administration.
Andrew L. McClain has been named group director of client services, and Robert B. Fox associate director, client services, at Genactis, Inc., a Fort Washington, Pa., research firm.