Joel Raphael, director of market research at AT&T, has joined Guideline Research Corp., New York, as senior vice president in charge of technical service and product studies, customer satisfaction and business-to-business research.
Jack Kerins has been named senior vice president of Systems & Technology with the ICT Group, a Langhorne, PA-based provider of telephone marketing and market research services.
Thomas O. Jukan has been named director of Pro Research, a subsidiary of IntelliQuest Inc., Austin, TX.
Port Washington, NY-based Heller Research Group has named Alan Levine executive vice president/marketing director and Arnold Diamond executive vice president/research director.
Branton White has been promoted to market research project manager at Intertec Publishing Corp., Overland Park, KS.
Edward M. Fielding has joined the electronics and computer marketing research department of Cahners Publishing in Newton, MA. Previously he was a manager of quantitative studies with Consumer Science, Inc., Peabody, MA.
Donna Van De Water has joined the Chicago office of Cramer-Krasselt advertising as a research supervisor. Previously she was with Young & Rubicam, Chicago.
Kelly Quehl has joined Quality Controlled Services, Minneapolis, as qualitative manager.
Kathleen Gutkowski has joined Michael Blatt & Company, Los Angeles, as operations manager. Previously she was with Computers for Marketing Corp., San Francisco.
Arthur S. Goldberg, Ph.D., has been appointed senior vice president of the New York office of Schulman, Ronca, and Bucuvalas, Inc.
Two research companies - RMC Research Corp., Hampton, NH, and MarketVision Research, Cincinnati - have been recognized for their "exemplary use of resources to face challenges and emerge stronger" as a part of a national program to enhance American competitiveness. The program called the Blue Chip Enterprise Initiative, is sponsored by Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance and endorsed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Nation's Business magazine. It was launched last September to help small businesses of all kinds compete more effectively through the exchange of insights and strategies for success.
Barbara P. Watson has joined Charlotte, NC-based FacFind, Inc. as account executive. In addition, Kathryn E. Dancy has been named business development director.
Christopher Jaworski has joined Response Analysis Corp.
Peter C. Pfeiffer has joined Booth Research Services, Inc., Atlanta, as an account executive. Previously he was manager, marketing research at Westat, Inc., Rockville, MD.
Newton Frank has joined Lieberman Research, Inc. as vice president.
William R. Winters, formerly marketing manager for NFO Research Inc., has joined New York-based Audits & Surveys Inc. as vice president in the Survey Division.
Opinion Research Corp. has named Nigel Taverner as managing director, UK, for its London office.
Lawrence E. Marks has been named market research manager with Rosemont, IL-based Donahoe & Purohit Inc.
Backer Spielvogel Bates Inc., New York, has named Jerrold H. Gottlieb executive vice president and Larry Chiagouris strategic planning & research director.
Kirk Tyson International has appointed Donald C. Ebel as vice president and managing director North America. Previously with FIND/SVP, Ebel will establish the New York office of Tyson Int'l.
Jill Falk, associate director, project development at Dataquest, Inc., has been presented with the Joie Award by the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Marketing Association. The Joie Award is presented annually in conjunction with the Marketer of the Year Award. It is given to the volunteer deemed to have made the most significant contribution.
Joanne Orlandi joins Healthcare Communications, Inc., Princeton, NJ, as director of client services.
Paul Donato has been named president of Simmons Syndicated Studies, New York.
Robert J. Biniak has been appointed marketing vice president of NFO Research, Inc., Greenwich, CT.
Douglas Ranshous has been elected vice president of the Ehrhart-Babic Group, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. He was previously director of corporate marketing. In addition, Teresa Mahnami has joined the firm as an account executive.
Krishnakumar S. Davey, Ph.D., has been selected as first-place winner in the 1991 American Marketing Association Doctoral Dissertation Competition. A consultant with Princeton, NJ-based Opinion Research Corp., Dr. Krishnakumar's winning thesis is titled, "Predicting Shares from Preferences for Multivariate Alternatives."
Mary Ann Smith-Janas has joined Epley Marketing Services Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA, as project analyst. Also, Steve Knier has been promoted to project analyst.
On July 1, William Neal assumed chairmanship of the Board of Directors of the American Marketing Association. Neal is co-founder and senior executive officer of SDR, Inc., Atlanta.
Laura L. Hinze has been promoted to president of Conversational Voice Technologies Corp., Gurnee, IL.
Scott T. McGurn has been promoted to assistant vice president and market research manager at the corporate headquarters of First Citizens Bank, Raleigh, NC.
Bruce Westcott will head Guideline Chicago, the new Midwest division of New York-based Guideline Research Corp.
Thomas Keels has rejoined Schulman, Ronca & Bucuvalas, Inc. as vice president, financial services research. He returns to the New York-based market and opinion research firm after spending four years at financial institutions and as a consultant.