Facebook, Menlo Park, Calif., has hired Antonio Lucio as chief marketing officer. Lucio joins Facebook from HP, where he led the company’s marketing team. Prior to HP, he was the CMO at Visa and PepsiCo.
In New York, qualitative field logistics firm FUEL and its studio The Focus Room have added Angela Pack as director of business development.
Auckland, New Zealand, research solutions firm Infotools has added John Bird as executive vice president, client development, representing the company’s business in North America. He will be based in the San Francisco Bay area.
Cultural artificial intelligence platform Qloo, New York, has hired Giorgos Papachristoudis as chief data scientist.
Market research company Macromill Inc., Tokyo, has appointed Derek Swanson as senior vice president of strategy and corporate development, a newly-created position.
Oslo, Norway, research solutions firm Confirmit has promoted Heidi Brumbach to executive vice president, global human resources, and Tim Hannington to chief revenue officer.
Marketing services firm Harte Hanks, San Antonio, announced that Karen Puckett has stepped down as president and CEO. In the interim, the board of directors created a temporary office of the CEO, composed of board members Jack Griffin and Martin Reidy as well as Harte Hanks executives Jon Biro and Andrew Harrison.
Digital research agency MetrixLab has appointed Luca Antonietti to lead its first commercial office in Italy. Based in Milan, Antonietti will take on the role of managing director for Italy.
Audience data firm Eyeota has hired Howard Luks as senior vice president, data products and partnerships, a newly-created role. He will be based in the New York office.
Marketing software company Marketo, San Mateo, Calif., has appointed Mika Yamamoto as global president.
San Francisco-based digital lending platform provider Roostify has added Magid Abraham, co-founder of comScore, to its board of directors.
London-based agency WPP has appointed Mark Read as CEO of the company and executive director of the company’s board.
Sarah Hofstetter has joined Reston, Va., firm comScore as president. Hofstetter will be responsible for the company’s commercial strategy, including marketing and sales, as well as advancing its movies reporting and analytics group. The firm has also hired the following: Ajay Sravanapudi as senior vice president of technology architecture and engineering; Kumar Rao as vice president of analytics; and Sumit Shukla as senior vice president of strategic partnerships.
Toronto-based data services firm Maru/Blue has hired the following: Katie Gawlik as director of strategy and development on the agency sales team; Sal Rustom as manager of strategy and development; Terry Kim, who has experience in customer service and sales; Michael Theophile-Uruena and Aruran Tharmalingam each as senior project manager; and Valen Arnesto as quotations coordinator.
David Anderson has joined Nielsen, New York, as chief financial officer. Anderson succeeds Jamere Jackson, who resigned to pursue an opportunity outside of the company.
Jenn Petell has joined research firm Smarty Pants, New York, as insights genius, a director-level role. Petell will be responsible for developing, managing and executing research initiatives for several of the company’s CPG, food and media clients.
The Insights Association, Washington, D.C., named new members to the board of its international chapter. Raj Manocha, executive vice president of Delvinia, will serve as chair. Joining him are Peter Costa, vice president of client services at Protobrand, and Anne Brown, CEO of Gazelle Global Research Services.
Chicago-based researcher IRI has appointed Harvey Goldhersz as executive vice president of data and innovation for the IRI Media Center of Excellence.
Auckland, New Zealand, research solutions firm Infotools has named Lena Cox as group client director for its global Coca-Cola partnership. She will be responsible for guiding management, leadership, coaching and strategic design discussions for clients’ international market research initiatives.
Tini Sevak has joined CNN as vice president, audiences and data at CNN International Commercial, the division of Turner International that is responsible for the business operations of CNN’s properties outside of the United States. Sevak will lead the company’s international data strategy and oversee a team of data and research specialists using Turner resources and out-of-house capabilities.
Researcher Burke, Inc., Cincinnati, has promoted Diane Surette to president and chief client officer.
Complete Research Connection in Columbus, Ohio, has promoted Julia Stahl to client services manager – call center.
Uber, San Francisco, has appointed Rebecca Messina as global chief marketing officer.
The Marketing Research Education Foundation (MREF) added two to its board of directors: Susan Waltman, Ipsos global president, and Tim Urmston, founder and CEO of Seek Company. The additions of Waltman and Urmston bring the total number of MREF board members to seven.
Consumer intelligence firm Maru/Matchbox, Toronto, has promoted Michelle Walkey to managing director, retail and technology and has added Allan Dykstra as vice president, business development for the retail and technology team.
Timothy Gell has joined Drive Research, New York, as a research analyst.
Chicago-based business intelligence company EnsembleIQ has named Terese Herbig as president of The Path to Purchase Institute.
Port Washington, N.Y., information company The NPD Group has named Kimberly Magnus as president for the firm’s U.S. toys business.
Arlington, Va., retail platform Basket has hired Pam Caffrey as vice president of data solutions.
Customer insights and messaging consultancy Engagious has hired Gina Derickson as research director and Robin Greenspan as director of sales.
MFour Mobile Research, Irvine, Calif., has hired Kanadpriya Basu as a data scientist; Prince Mabandla as a senior software engineer; and Kyung Lee as a controller.
Yardley, Pa., research company Health Strategies Group has appointed Anita Burrell as vice president and practice lead for global market access. Burrell will assume the leadership role for syndicated and custom solutions for Health Strategies Group Global Access Insights.
Las Vegas-based enterprise software products and services firm Rimini Street Inc. has appointed Pat Phelan as vice president of market research.
PortMA, a marketing analytics and research company based in Portland, Maine, has hired Katie Clark as COO/research director.
Madison, N.J., health care analytics firm Real Endpoints has appointed Jeff Berkowitz as CEO and member of the board of directors.
Barbara Murrer, senior director of marketplace insights for Levi Strauss & Co., has been named chairperson of the board for the Advertising Research Foundation. She succeeds Jed Meyer, director, brand measurement for Google, who has held the position since 2016.
Brian Wansink, a nutrition researcher at Cornell University, has resigned from his position after JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine and JAMA Pediatrics have retracted six articles that included Wansink as author. His resignation will be effective at the end of the current academic year. Cornell said Wansink committed academic misconduct, including “misreporting of research data, problematic statistical techniques, failure to properly document and preserve research results and inappropriate authorship.”