Hilary DeCamp has been named director of research services for St. Louis-based Maritz Marketing Research Inc.’s Los Angeles division. In addition, Jeff Laack has been named senior research manager of Maritz’s telecom research group; Geoff Roper has been named account manager for the St. Louis division of the firm’s North American operations goup; Joe Ziegler has been promoted to division vice president and director, information technology, for the automotive research group; Jennifer Niswander has been promoted to division vice president and director, research operations, for the automotive research group; and Laura Kippen has been named director of research services for the North American operations goup.
Dorothy McDougall has been named branch manager at the Philadelphia office of St. Louis-based
Quality Controlled Services. In addition, Wanda Myers has been named branch manager at the firm’s Los Angeles office.
Galloway Research Service, San Antonio, Texas, has promoted Carlos Jauregui to its research group. In addition, John Ucab has been promoted to telephone department director.
Zesearch, Inc., an Alpharetta, Ga., competitive intelligence firm, has named Brian Zeman CEO.
Marketeam Associates, St. Louis, has promoted Vicki Thies to vice president, field operations.
E-Tabs, a U.K.-based data delivery software firm, has named Jonathan Rabson international sales director.
Michael Butler and Jennifer Nolan have been named research assistant at Syracuse, N.Y.-based Knowledge Systems & Research, Inc. In addition, Patricia Kriegisch Kondapi has been named research analyst with the firm’s health care team.
Tanya Markovich has been named field services manager and Scott Stiles research assistant at Digital Research, Inc., Kennebunk, Maine.
James Sorensen, vice president client services, has relocated to the Portland, Ore., headquarters of Sorensen Associates to serve as senior vice presi dent. He had been at the firm’s Minneapolis location. Kathy Bieker has joined Sorensen Associates’ client services team as a project director in the Minneapolis office. Carol Reynolds has been promoted to quality officer in Portland.
Plano, Texas-based JCPenney has named Mike Itashiki Intenet marketing research manager.
Gary Culpepper has been named operations director at First Market Research, Austin, Texas.
Julie Fontaine joined Advantis Research & Consulting, St. Paul, as director of marketing.
Carole Schmidt has been promoted to vice president of Doyle Research Associates, Inc., Chicago.
Patrick Johnston has joined Harris Interactive as team leader/senior statistical programmer in the firm’s new Chicago office.
Digital Idea, a new Intemet consulting firm based in Westport, Conn., has named Lisa Jaccoma managing director, brand and marketing consulting. Lisa Langley, director, business development, has joined to build the firm’s Silicon Valley presence.
Boston-based Uno Restaurant Corporation has named M. Heyward Whetsell, Jr. senior vice president of marketing. His responsibilities will include marketing research.
Wayne Smith has been named senior vice president of services at SPSS, Chicago.
Boston-based Welch’s has promoted Peter Martin to vice president, marketing. In his new role, Martin will be responsible for all aspects of Welch’s domestic marketing programs including advertising, corporate communications and marketing research.
New York-based Y&R Inc. has announced that its Brand Futures Group has been restructured as a new line of business under the name The intelligence Factory. It will continue to be mn by Ira Matathia, CEO, and Marian Salzman, president, and will count Y&R Advertising among its clients.
InterSurvey has hired Jean Durall to work at its Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters. In addition, A. Michael Spenee, former dean and current faculty member of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, has joined the company’s board of directors. And Catherine S. Edwards has been named vice president of marketing.
Vincent Stolo has joined Boston-based research firm Focus On Boston as a consultant.
Louise Rehling has resigned her position as executive vice president of product development at SPSS, Chicago.
NetValue, a Hong Kong firm measuring Internet usage, has appointed Darlene Lee as Asia president and CEO to expand its services to the reNon. The company aims to set up Interact research business in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Korea before the end of the year.
Mary Wang, account manager at SPSS MR, Chicago, has been named director-at-large of the Marketing Research Association’s New York/New England chapter board, of directors. Separately, SPSS MR has named Patrick Quigley senior director for the Americas.
Braintree, Mass., research firm Perseus Development Corporation has named Bob Kazarian, Jack Brown, and Jack Boyles to its senior management team.
ACNielsen U.S., Schaumburg, 111., has named Tim Callahan executive vice president client service.
Vancouver-based advertising firm Advertain On-Line Inc. has named Wayne Kondruk director of market research.
New York-based Arbitron Company has appointed Brad Bedford vice president of sales for Arbitron’s InfoStream Webcast audience ratings service.
David Sackman, president and chief executive officer of Lieberman Research Worldwide, has joined the board of directors of BidVantage Inc., a Camarillo, Calif., online electronics marketer.
Minneapolis-based RocketChips, Inc., an integrated chip maker, has named Tim Bradow strategic marketing manager. Market research will be among his responsibilities.
Christine Miller will join the senior management team of Discovery.com, the Web presence of the Discovery TV network, as executive vice president and chief marketing officer. Part of her responsibilities include direction of marketing research efforts.
Jerry R. Mitchell has resigned his position as chairman and director, president and CEO of ClinTrials Research, Research Triangle Park, N.C. Paul J. Ottaviano, the firm’s COO, will replace Mitchell as president and CEO. Director Ed Nelson will assume the role of chairman.
Jeff Staadt has been tapped as managing director for Stratcom, a Massapequa, N.Y., market intelligence firm.
DeepCanyon, a Seattle online provider of business decision-support tools, informarion and research, has named Yolanda Chao vice president of engineering and Peggy Sue Heath vice president of strategy and business development.
Frank Quirk, chairman and CEO of ORC Macro, has been elected to the board of directors of Opinion Research Corporation, Princeton, N.J. ORC Macro is a global social research firm acquired by Opinion Research Corporation in May 1999.
FreeSamples.com, a San Francisco firm offering product samples over the Intemet, has named Craig Logan vice president of operations and Lawrence J. Becker vice president of research technology and support.
Mary Ann Pacocha, director of Connecticut InFocus, Glastonbury, Conn., has been elected to the board of the New England chapter of the Marketing Research Association. She will serve as director-at-large, Connecticut representative.
Gregory Kohs has been promoted to vice president, client services, at ICR, a Media, Pa., research firm.
Brenda McFarland has joined Taylor Nelson Sofres Intersearch in the research firm’s White Plains, N.Y., office as senior vice president, director.
Bill Thiel has been promoted to director of information technology at Eagle Research, Atlanta. In the Denver office of Eagle Research, Davida Clark has been promoted to quantitative manager and Kimberly Whitten has been named office manager.
The NPD Group, Port Washington, N.Y., has named Diane Nicholson vice president of the fashion team; Michele Schmal vice president of client service for the NPD Foodservice Information Group; Anna Scott vice president of NPD’s toys, sports and foodservice tracking business in the U.K.; and John Stebbins vice president and managing director of NPD Japan.