David Miller, formerly with Kapuler Marketing Research, has joined Conway/Milliken & Associates, a Chicago marketing research company. Miller is a vice president for the company. Sharon Swanson has joined CMA as an account manager, Jeananne Turner becomes a project manager, and Matt Le is data manager for the firm. Swanson, Turner and Le also came to CMA from Kapuler. Meanwhile, Joanne Robbibaro has signed on as vice president, data collection. She joins CMA from M/A/R/C, Irving, Texas, where she was director of field data collection.
Ellen Boisvert has been named to the Public Relations Society of America's Research Committee. Boisvert is director of research for Dudley Research, Exeter, N.H. The PRSA's Research Committee explores specifications for research that will set standards for measuring and evaluating public relations, find ways to make better use of PRSA's accreditation process, and present a forum on research at the PRSA's national conference in 1995.
Les Leathem and Annemarie Menges have joined Healthcare Communications Inc., Princeton, N.J. Leathern is vice president/marketing. In his new position, he will draw on his background in the pharmaceuticals industry to help HCI clients apply the firm's products and services to their marketing efforts. Menges has assumed the role of advertising rate-card coordinator.
Gail Maffai and David Schafer have joined Arlington Heights, Ill.-based Market Facts Inc. as vice presidents. Maffai will work out of the company's New York office, while Schafer moves into its Boston facility. Previously, Maffai was director of corporate accounts for the NPD Group Inc. Schafer was senior vice president of Quick Test. In addition to its headquarters and Boston and New York bureaus, Market Facts has offices in Washington, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Toronto and Montreal.
Priscilla Light has been named senior project director at Research 100, a marketing firm based in Princeton, NJ. Light, who ran her own communications and marketing research company before joining Research 100, is responsible for the direction of research projects and client service.
Larry G. Chiagouris has joined New York-based Creamer Dickson Basford Inc. as executive vice president and director of client and strategic services. Chiagouris, who holds a Ph.D. in consumer behavior, is responsible for directing agencywide business development and the company's Research Services and Information Services departments, in addition to setting strategic standards on CDB account work and marketing the firm in general. Chiagouris comes to CDB from Backer Spielvogel Bates.
Jay Houghton has joined the Dohring Co. Inc., Glendale, Calif. Houghton will serve as the company's account manager - OEM, and as such has opened a Detroit office for Dohring, an automotive research firm. In his new position, Houghton oversees the company' s OEM and dealer advertising association activities.
Nicole Kane, Alison Munsch and Anthony Vedugo have joined Market Segment Research Inc., a qualitative and quantitative market research concern with headquarters in Coral Gables, Fla. Kane becomes vice president of strategic planning. She comes from Leo Burnett Co., Chicago, where she did market planning, research and consulting. Munsch is senior project director/moderator. She came to MSR from Kraft General Foods, where she served as market research supervisor, and has experience in research techniques used in both long-term strategic planning and short-term opportunity assessments. Verdugo is a project director for MSR. He has managed various aspects of qualitative and quantitative research, and provided strategic analysis.
Jeffery Etherton has joined Northwest Research Group Inc. as qualitative research manager. Etherton will supervise andmanage all aspects of the firm's qualitative research projects, including bidding, booking and the supervision of recruiting. He will also supervise the facility coordinator and recruiting supervisor.
Joe Dixon has joined Northwest as a research associate. At Northwest, Dixon is responsible for managing quantitative research projects. He previously was the principal at InfoBase in Kirkland, Wash.
Bob O'Brien has been named vice president and general manager of NPD CREST, Chicago.
Jeffrey J. Linenfelser has been named senior project director for Slander Research Associates Inc., St. Clair Shores, Mich. William G. Larkin has been tabbed as project coordinator for the company.
Robert A. Hill has been made president of Rockwood Research, a St. Paul, Minn.-based a subsidiary of Farm Journal Inc. Hill comes to Rockwood from Martiz Marketing Research, where he was senior research manager.
Todd Williford has been made the director of the National Survey Center, Arlington, Texas. The center is owned and operated by Decision Analyst Inc., also based in Arlington.
Gregg Stickeler has been promoted at Interviewing Service of America Inc., Van Nuys, Calif., and Jennifer Von Schneidau has joined the company. Stickeler has assumed the role of vice president, data collection services, while Von Schneidau becomes vice president, project and client services.
Karen Flannery has been made a vice president for the Philadelphia-based Response Center. She will work out of the company's newly opened Chicago office.
Dean J. Kilpatrick has been named president of CT Research Services, the market research division of the Langhorne, Pa.-based ICT Group Inc. Kilpatrick is responsible for managing the overall direction of ICT Research and expanding the division's client base and service capabilities. At the same time, the parent company has named Robert Howling as vice president of finance and has promoted John "Jack" Magee to executive vice president of operations, and Robert Small to senior vice president of client services. (For further information, see Research Company News.)
Jerry W. Thomas has been named chairman of the Advisory Board of the University of Texas at Arlington's Master of Science in Marketing Research degree program. Thomas is the president and CEO of Arlington-based Decision Analyst Inc. The school's program is designed to prepare students for careers in marketing research, product of brand management, marketing management, advertising and strategic planning.
Karole N. Friemann has joined Three Cedars Inc., Omaha, Neb., as vice president of market research. Friemann leads the market research staff and will spearhead the expansion of the company's research division.
Teri Williams has joined Atlanta Focus as project manager. She is responsible for all qualitative research projects and new business development for the company.
Thomas E. Miller has rejoined FIND/SVP Inc., New York. Miller helped found the company in 1969; he left in 1982, but has returned to become a vice president of the company's new Emerging Technologies Group. He will direct the group's activities as it conducts a series of major multiclient studies assessing consumer and home-office information use and demand. He also will spearhead FIND/SVP's participation in the development of new products and services for the information superhighway.
The Marketing Research Association has presented Linda K. Tessar with its 1994 Distinguished Service Award and Christine O. Adams with its 1994 Award of Excellence. The Distinguished Service Award is given in recognition of extensive and notable service to both the association and the marketing research industry in general. The Award of Excellence is given to recognize service to the association and to local chapters. Tessar is president of NETWORK, Covington, Ky., a coalition of industry leaders involved in data collection and field management services. Adams is vice president of operations for the BASES Group, a company specializing in new product evaluation and forecasting using simulated test markets and test models. The Bases Group is also in Covington.
Tim McPartlin and D.J. Jefferson both have been promoted to senior vice president positions at Lieberman Research West, Los Angeles. The promotions coincide with LRW's opening of three Centers of Excellence. McPartlin will head the International Research Center while Jefferson leads the Litigation Support Center. Maria Stark, a vice president with the company, has been tabbed to head the Qualitative Research Center. (See Research Company News.)
Phil Brantley has become a vice president of Creative Research Services Inc. He also will serve as the managing director of the company's Cincinnati headquarters.
Atlanta-based SDR Inc. has added Shahrzad Amirani and Chuck Mobley to its Marketing Services Group. Amirani will serve as senior consultant, research methods. She will consult with both research-company and corporate clients in designing and executing advanced methodological approaches to strategic marketing issues. Mobley is an experienced programmer in several statistical packages, specializing in SAS. SDR also has established account and project management teams, adding and promoting personnel in the process: Operations manager Ann Morrell will add responsibility for all mailing services to her duties. Midwest regional manager Laura Mirkin will take on responsibility for managing all nonmail data collection. She also will assume additional business development and account-management functions. Paula Schultz has been promoted to account manager in SDR's Chicago office; Robyn Atchison and Janet Moss have been named account managers in the Atlanta office; Lynda Bennett, Greg Gorczynski and Katie Baron have been made project managers in the Atlanta office; and Angela Phillips and Hank Menzel have been named project managers in the company's Chicago office.
Jenifer Gordon has joined the Paria Group, Orem, Utah, as a research analyst. She primarily will be responsible for programming questionnaires into the company's computer-assisted telephone interviewing system, coordinating research projects and providing clients with data analysis and reports. Meanwhile, Dahl Gardner has been promoted to vice president of operations at the Paria Group. He will oversee research productivity and project efficiency and continue in his role as the director of health care research projects.
Michael Mowbray has been promoted to vice president-marketing research at Waldbillig & Besteman, Madison, Wis. Mowbray formerly was the company's director of marketing.