Mildetta Robinson has joined Bernett Research Services Inc. She will be mall manager at Bernett's South Shore Plaza mall intercept facility in Braintree, Mass. Andrea Saks has joined the firm's Fort Myers, Fla., office as senior vice president/custom research services. She will also work in the firm's Jupiter, Fla., satellite office.
Peter Kochenthal has joined Bruskin/Goldring Research, Edison, N.J., as senior vice president, client services. Bob Homeyer has been promoted to associate project director for custom research, and Stephanie Sinn has joined as an OmniTel associate project director.
Joann Arndt has been appointed database product director at Cahners Direct Marketing Services, Des Plaines, Ill. Edward Fielding has been promoted to market research analyst at Cahners Research, Boston division.
Catherine Kneidl has been promoted to group vice president for quality controlled services at Maritz Marketing Research Inc., based in Fenton, Mo. Gail Gilbert has been promoted to vice president, division manager, in the firm's full-service division in St. Louis. William Kattner has joined the firm's Minneapolis office as senior account manager.
Edward (Ted) Byers has been appointed president and CEO at Cambridge Reports/Research International, Cambridge, Mass., a subsidiary of Research International USA.
Bret Fox has been named research analyst for Cattle-Fax, Englewood, Colo.
John Golanty has joined Chicago-based ConwaylMilliken & Associates (CMA) as senior vice president and member of the CMA management group.
Dr. David Jacobson has joined the New York office of Creamer Dickson Basford lnc. He will serve as vice president/associate research director.
Dennis Anspach has joined Minneapolis-based Custom Research, Inc., as vice president.
Dan Nigbur has been named manager of customer support at Customer Insight Co. Inc., Englewood, Colo.
Taylor Bond has been appointed national director of market research for Domino's Pizza Inc., Ann Arbor, Mich.
M. Scott Ulnick has been named fourth partner in Ducker Research Co. Inc., Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Rhonda Bowes has been promoted to senior analyst.
Dr. Deborah Jay has been promoted to president and CEO of Field Research Corp., San Francisco. In addition, Eleanor Murray, executive vice president, will assume the added responsibilities of technical director; and Mark DiCamillo, vice president and research director, will also take over as director of The Field Poll.
Jack McAleer has joined Healthcare Communications Inc., Princeton, N.J., as director of on-line client services.
Phaedra Gilpin and Bill Burkett have joined Hygeia Marketing Associates, West Caldwell, N.J. Gilpin will be responsible for project coordination. Burkett will work in the area of pharmaceutical marketing.
Philip Rosenberg has joined ICR Survey Research Group as vice president. ICR is a division of AUS Consultants, based in Media, Pa.
Debbie Loeb has joined Chicago-based Loran Marketing Group Inc. She will be responsible for managing qualitative and quantitative research projects, and developing new business.
Gerald Linda, Wesley Jones, Ph.D., and Rosalyn Ryan have joined Kapuler Marketing Research in Arlington Heights, Ill. Linda joins as senior vice president and principal; Jones joins as vice president, marketing sciences; and Ryan joins as vice president, business development.
Response Analysis, Princeton, N.J., has announced the following personnel additions and promotions: Mary Christy joined as statistician; Janet Fisher-Hughes joined as research director in the financial services group; Nicholas Iadiccio joined as account executive; Gisela Joppich, promoted to account executive for the pharmaceuticals group; Susan Langhans joined as senior research director in the financial services group; Andrea McDonough joined as research director in the telecommunications group; Peter Milla, promoted to vice president, computer operations; Randy Morrison joined as vice president, with a concentration in health-related research; and Marjorie Schaefer, promoted to account executive in the financial services group.
Matthew Szulik has been appointed vice president, worldwide sales, at Maplnfo Corp.,Troy, N.Y.
Ron Duda has been appointed senior vice president at Market Facts Inc., Arlington Heights, Ill., and Carl Edstrom has been appointed vice president. Don Morrison, marketing vice president, will head the new Market Facts office at 201 E. Fifth St., Cincinnati.
John Mattingly and Loren Wims have joined St. Louis-based Marketing Horizons Inc. Mattingly joins as director of client services; Wims joins as project manager.
Robert E. Davis has been named a vice president at Marketest 2000 Group, NY. Marketest 2000 is a part of Market Facts Inc., based in Arlington Heights, Ill.
Dale Kever has joined MarketVision Research Inc., Cincinnati, as director, analytical services.
David Bell has joined New York-based Newman-Stein Inc. as manager of account services, a newly created position. Eve Oster has been promoted to group head.
Woelfel Research Inc., Vienna, Va., has promoted Jeffrey Adler to vice president (new account development and account management), and Robert Kuchay to vice president (corporate technical operations and new product and services development).
Robert Higginson has been promoted to vice president of client services at Paria Group, Orem, Utah. Dahl Gardner has joined as head of health care research.
Julia Arnette has been appointed vice president, information technology for marketing operations in the Detroit office of R.L. Polk & Co.; Staci Fromwiller has been named vice president-sales, fundraising, in the firm's Washington, D.C., office; and William Heist has been named vice president-manager, database services, in the firm's Atlanta office.
Claire Herczeg has been appointed senior project director at Research 100, Princeton, N.J.
Suzanne Stinson has been appointed senior vice president at New York-based Research International USA. Stinson will be in charge of the customer research division. Research International is a member of the WPP Group.
Jack Bedell has been named president of Simmons Custom Research, and Art Savitt has joined as vice president, custom sales. Jeff Pogrob also has joined the firm. He will serve as contact liaison to high-tech publishers for the CompPro study. Gregg Lindner has been named vice president/technical director of Simmons Syndicated Studies. Both the custom research and syndicated studies organization are divisions of Simmons Market Research Bureau Inc., based in New York and Chicago.
Margaret Beck has been promoted to manager of research and marketing programs for Sunset Magazine, a division of Sunset Publishing Corp. based in Menlo Park, Calif.
Joseph G. Smith, 66, died in mid-September. Smith was a psychologist, an expert in consumer research and chairman of New York-based Oxtoby-Smith Inc. market research company. He was elected to the Market Research Council hall of fame in 1991. Smith helped NBC choose a peacock as its symbol, at a time when most televisions were still black and white. Smith said a peacock would look better without color than any other proposed symbol.
CLARIFICATION:
In the June/July, 1993 Names of Note, we did not identify ICR Survey Research Group vice president/managing director Sharon Robert's home office. She joined the firm's Midwest office, located in Chicago, as managing director. QMRR regrets the omission.