MORPACE International, Inc., a Farmington Hills, Mich., research firm, has named William G. Pendry to vice president. At the MORPACE Irvine, Calif., office, Susan Sabanos has been named vice president. She will lead the Irvine Diversified Research Team.
New York-based Arbitron Inc. is realigning its U.S. media services organization and will integrate all U.S. media services marketing resources under a single executive and all U.S. media services sales organizations under a single executive, both reporting to Owen Charlebois, president, U.S. media services. As a result, Scott Musgrave has assumed the role of senior vice president, marketing, U.S. media services. And Carol Hanley has been named senior vice president, sales, U.S. media services. Musgrave will continue to be based in New York and Hanley in Chicago.
Separately, Arbitron Inc. has realigned its outdoor division. The new structure integrates the marketing and sales functions for Arbitron Outdoor under separate executives, both reporting to Pierre Bouvard, president, new ventures. Jacqueline Noel has been named vice president, marketing and out-of-home advertising agencies. Joan Gerberding, who recently assumed the role of vice president, sales for Arbitron outdoor, will lead the overall sales effort for the division. Both Noel and Gerberding will continue to be based in New York. Arbitron Outdoor also announced three new account managers: Frank Ball, Debora Stein and Kelly Flynn.
Brian Backer and Andy Roberts have joined Polaris Marketing Research, Inc., Atlanta, as project manager.
Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research, Inc. has named Charles Chang president, Forrester Asia Pacific.
Stephanie Cohen has joined G & S Research, Carmel, Ind., as senior consultant in the analytics division.
Bellomy Research, Inc., Winston-Salem, N.C., has added Robin Craven as research associate, Karen Lefler as account director, and David MacDonald as director of business development.
Todd Fleischhauer has been named general manager, R. L. Polk Canada, Inc., Toronto. He replaces Kendra Rawls, who has become vice president, Northern Europe at Polk’s location in St. Albans, U.K.
The Dallas Morning News has named Laura Bloom Gordon senior vice president/marketing. Marketing research will be among her new responsibilities.
David Lauth has been named managing director of the new Munich office of J.D. Power and Associates, Westlake Village, Calif.
Jan McCarten has been named senior vice president, Millward Brown, Naperville, Ill. At the firm’s Fairfield, Conn., office, Tony Ducoli has been named vice president, and Sharon Hallock has been named vice president, Internet project management.
Sandy Livingstone has been appointed business development director to head up Enlightenment, a new, U.K.-based customer intelligence service from BMRB and Millward Brown.
Research firm Synovate has named Steve Garton director, media research - Asia Pacific. At the offices of Synovate Asia Pacific in Hong Kong, Mike Sherman has been named executive director, consumer insights.
Netherlands-based media and information firm VNU has named Rob Ruijter as successor to Frans Cremers, who will step down after eight years as CFO. Ruijter will become a member of the VNU executive board on December 1, 2004, and will become CFO on January 1, 2005.
European Web portal and research provider Ciao has named Georgette Thaler sales director North America. The company also named Martin Grupe, Asim Burney and Jessica Yo rke as sales manager in its London, Munich and Paris offices, respectively.
U.K.-based retail research firm ESA has named Cathy Head senior project executive in its client service division. In addition, Claudia De Simone has been named contact center manager.
NOP World, New York, has named Caro Giordano vice president of its U.S. technology sector.
At Piedmont Natural Gas, Charlotte, N.C., Ranelle Q. Warfield, vice president - sales, has assumed the additional responsibility for marketing as vice president - sales and marketing. Marketing research will be among her new responsibilities.
Waltham, Mass., research firm Applied Marketing Science has named Steven G askin senior consultant.
Invoke Solutions, a Tenafly, N.J., research firm, has named Joanne Manley as director of marketing.
Norway-based research software firm MI Pro AS has named Andrew Jeavons president of its new U.S. division, MI Pro USA Inc., Cincinnati.
Alison Morgan has been named director of sales, Eastern region, at the new Boston office of Seattle-based Global Market Insite. The firm has also named Lowell Ricklefs as vice president of global sales.
Insight Research Group USA, Mountainside, N.J., has named Arlene Cohen president.
At the New York offices of Ipsos, James B. Douglass has been tapped to lead its North American Health Division. And David Pring has joined the company’s consumer products division as senior vice president and general manager.