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Michael Brereton has been promoted to the newly defined role of managing director, North America, for Maritz Research, St. Louis. In addition, Gary Eversole succeeds Brereton as group vice president of the Maritz Research Automotive Research Group. Also, Maritz Research has hired Chris Watkins as senior program manager for the central project management division.

Allan D. Orman has retired from Orman Guidance Research, Inc., Minneapolis.

Howard Goldberg has been promoted to senior vice president of radio and sports marketing at Scarborough Research, New York. In addition, Bill Nielson was promoted to director of sales, sports marketing.

Diane Perduk Rambo and Peter McIlroy have been named partner at Retail Planning Associates, Columbus, Ohio.

InsightFarm, a Livingston, N.J.,. media evaluation and analysis company, has named Duane Karabin research coordinator and Daria Friedman research manager.

Susquehanna Sutweys, Harrisburg, Pa., and The Results Network, Inc., have named Betty Hungerford senior consultant. In addition, William Bader has joined the firms as audio/video technician.

Frank Markowitz has joined On-Line Communications, a Bartlesville, Okla., research firm, as. vice president of sales in the firm’s Cherry Hill, N.J., office.

Richard Gehling has been named managing director of Research International Qualitatif, for the U.K., and joins the main Research International U.K. board. Gehling will work alongside Gayle Moberg, a qualitative practitioner who recently joined RIUK’s Board. Gehling will run Research International’s main qualitative division in the U.K., while Moberg will head its Fifteen20 innovation consultancy business.

MORPACE International, Inc., a Farmington Hills, Mich., research firm, has named Milan Popovich a vice president-health care. In addition, Brian Drake has been promoted to vice president.
 
Richard Quinlan has been named vice president, business development, at MarketVision Research, Cincinnati.

Ben Goodson has been named call center manager at Western Wars Center’s new business-to-business research call facility in Rexburg, Idaho.

Westport, Conn., health care information firm IMS Health has named Murray Aitken senior vice president of services & consulting, a newly created role.

National Research Corporation, Lincoln, Neb., has named JoAnn M. Martin to its board of directors to serve until the 2002 annual meeting of shareholders. The addition of Martin expands the board of directors to five.

International Communications Research, Media, Pa., has named Kathy Fitzpatrick vice president of client services in the firm’s Chicago office.

Susan Hayward has joined Knowledge Networks, Menlo Park, Calif., as vice president and product director, syndicated services. Eric S. Halata has joined the firm’s New York office as vice president, custom research. Cindy Asen has also joined the firm’s New York office as vice president, managing director.

Robert Skolnick has been named president and CEO of BAIGlobal Inc., a Tarrytown, N.Y., research firm. He succeeds Kathleen Knight, who is now president emeritus and will be a consultant to BAIGlobal through the end of the year.

Fundamental Research Grottp Inc., Southampton, Pa., has named Lori Smith and Tammy Palucis project manager.

Bala Cynwyd, Pa., research firm Strategic Marketing Corporation has named Carol Hebb and Joseph Romero senior vice president.

Kamilah Garcia has joined the  management team of Galloway Research Service, San Antonio, Texas, as a project supervisor for the firm’s recruiting department. The firm also announced that Rosa Gutierrez has completed 20 years of service as a Spanish-language interviewer.

Genactis, Ltd., has named Karen Hyver CEO of its American subsidiary Genactis, Inc., Fort Washington, Pa., and Larry Levin has been named senior vice president of Genactis Group, its new division for syndicated marketing research.

Arbitron Inc. has promoted Ronald Kolessar to vice president of technology, worldwide Portable People Meter (PPM) development.

Greenfield Online, Wilton, Conn., has named John Polich vice president for analytic services and Pieter Coenraads director of panel management and operations.

Aegis Communications Group, Inc. has named Herman M. Schwarz president and CEO. Schwarz will continue in his role as president of the firm’s Elrick & Lavidge marketing research division.

Opinion Research Corporation, Princeton, N.J., has named James C. Fink CEO of worldwide market research.

Concord, Mass., research firm MORPACE Pharma Group, Ltd., has named Robert Schumaker to the newly created position of managing director, North American sales and marketing.

As part of the acquisition of U.K.-based Market Research Solutions Limited (MRSL) by Harris Interactive, Rochester, N.Y., Greg Smith, currently vice president of European international development at Harris Interactive, has assumed the duties of group managing director for MRSL and is in charge of MRSL’s day-to-day operations. Smith reports to David H. Clemm, president and COO of Harris Interactive. Clemm has become chairman of a new board of directors for MRSL. He has been joined by Smith, David Vaden, vice president of corporate finance for Harris Interactive, and Roger Landells, who has become a non-executive director and will be retained as a consultant to both MRSL and Harris Interactive. At the same time, Martin Callingham, visiting professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, and formerly group market research director for Whitbread plc., continues as a nonexecutive director of MRSL. In addition, a new executive committee has been formed, comprising Smith and MRSL founder directors Tim Baker, managing director of Magenta, Jon Darby, managing director of group operations, and Bernard Hudson, development director. Of the other founding directors, Roger Landells has moved to a non-executive director role and Joy Reynolds will retire.

Crestwood Associates, a Kirkland, Wash., research firm, has named Stephen Jensen as its research director. In addition, Terry D. Roberts has joined the firm as a senior consultant. David Hernandez has been appointed managing director of RTA Claritas Espafia, a Madrid-based company of VNU Marketing Information Europe.

Millennium Research Inc., an Apple Valley, Minn., research firm, has named Terry Solom data processing manager.

Jay Wilson, chairman and CEO of Roper Starch Worldwide, has been inducted as the 59th member of the Market Research Council Hall of Fame.

Caroline Thomas has rejoined the staff of Consumer Pulse, Birmingham, Mich., where she will resume her responsibilities in the client service area.

MAXimton Research, Inc., Cherry Hill, N.J., has named Beth Malmud-Dworkin vice president of client services.

Ipsos-Reid, a Washington, D.C., research firm, has named Thomas Riehle president and COO of the company’s new U.S. public affairs division.

Encino, Calif.-based E-Poll has named Kurt Bensmiller vice president, research.
 
Bob Goodpaster has been named senior vice president and team leader of the Grand Rapids, Mich., office of Wirthlin Worldwide.

Ottawa-based data management software firm Beyond 20/20 Inc. has named Anne-Marie Vinet marketing communications coordinator; Bill White account executive; Daniela Ignea quality assurance team member; Huanliang Xia developer- nightly build and setups; James Wu developer - WDS team member; Ken Lin developer - builder browser team member; and Sharmistha Chatterjee quality assurance team member. The firm has also welcomed back Janet Smith after her maternity leave.

NFO WorldGroup has named Terry Schweizer vice president and general manager of NFO North America’s Chicago marketing office. In addition, Bridget Armstrong has been named senior vice president of NFO North America.