Confluence Marketing, Red Wing, Minn., has hired Steve Akerson as senior vice president.
Emil Martinez has joined State College, Pa., research firm VideoMining Corp., as chief business development officer.
Restaurant chain Taco John’s, Cheyenne, Wyo., has hired Billie Jo Waara as its new chief marketing officer.
WorkPlace Impact has appointed Mary Beth Agase as vice president of sales and Pete Aranavage as vice president of operations. Also, Dan Llewellyn was promoted to vice president of business development.
Pete Aitkin has joined OP4G, Portsmouth, N.H., as vice president of North American sales.
New York researcher SurveyHealthCare has hired John Castellano as vice president of business development.
Fenton, Mo., researcher Maritz Research has appointed Nigel Cover as vice president for business services.
MediaMath, a New York Internet firm, has hired Ross McNab as managing director and Jake Engwerda as vice president, sales.
Jonathan de Pass, founder and CEO of Evaluate Ltd., a London marketing information firm, was selected by PharmaVOICE magazine as one of the top 100 most inspirational and influential people in the life sciences industry.
Auburn Hills, Mich., research firm Gongos has appointed Katherine Ephlin as COO and Susan Scarlet as vice president, strategic branding.
North Sydney, Australia researcher OzTAM has named Padraig O’Donovan as its digital strategy director.
Porsche Cars Canada Limited, Ontario, Canada, has appointed Alexander Schildt as marketing director.
Apple, San Francisco, has hired Musa Tariq to head its social media department.
ComScore, a Reston, Va., research firm, has hired Mel Wesley as CFO.
Harvey Goldhersz has been named chief data officer and CEO of GroupM Analytics, a division of the New York marketing firm GroupM.
New York research firm Ipsos ASI has hired Caroline Walker as managing director and Paul Edwards as non-executive director. Also, Lucy Burnham has been hired to head up one of ASI’s three teams.
Invoke Solutions, a Boston research firm, has hired Daniel Krason as vice president of sales and marketing.
Jesse Epstein has joined the New York office of London researcher Incite as principal, along with Daniela Cinali as associate.
The New York office of Tonic, a London research firm, has hired David Miller as executive vice president and promoted Matt Ayers to vice president of client services.
Mike Kail has joined Yahoo, San Francisco, as CIO and senior vice president, infrastructure.
The British Heart Foundation, London, has hired Carolan Davidge as its first marketing and engagement director.
Razor Research, London, has hired Amy Cosgrave as an associate director.
London researcher Hall & Partners has added Yukiko Obata to its Tokyo office as an account director within the Japan Health Team.
The Principal Financial Group, Des Moines, Iowa, has hired Elizabeth Brady as senior vice president and chief marketing officer.
Montreal research company Leger has appointed Sheri Lambert as head of its new services market research operations.
Concord, Mass., information services firm Avention has hired Steve Pogorzelski as CEO.
Selena King has joined London research firm Firefish as its new qualitative group head.
Paris research company Ipsos has appointed Aldrin Stephen Luiz as executive director and head of its MediaCT business in India, based in the Mumbai office.
The Newspaper Works, a New South Wales, Australia, advocacy association, has appointed Brian Rock as research and insights manager.
Ludinghausen, Germany, research firm Kleffmann Group has promoted Carolina Coelho to global HR and operations manager.
Roxanne Salen has joined Cincinnati researcher Burke, Inc. as a senior account executive in client services.
Indianapolis consulting firm Walker Information has named Sean Clayton senior vice president and strategic account manager.
Philadelphia researcher MRops has hired Jeff Palish as senior vice president, client services.
Christian Diedrich has joined Germany-based GfK as its chief financial officer.
Thoroughbred Research Group, Louisville, Ky., has hired Reagan Barbee as lead research manager.
Sean Creamer has been named executive vice president and CFO at the Madison Square Garden Company in New York.
Rebecca Coleman and Phoebe Checker have joined Crowd DNA, a Maidenhead, U.K., technology firm.
London research firm YouthSight has appointed James MacGregor as director of higher education research.
New York software firm L2 has appointed Scott Ernst as CEO.
James Quarles has joined Instagram, San Francisco, in the newly added position of global head of business and brand development.
The Local Search Association, Troy, Mich., has appointed Greg Sterling as its first vice president of strategy and insights.
London researcher YouGov has promoted Sundip Chahal to the newly created role of group chief operating officer.
Arpapat (Nokki) Boonrod will join Horsham, Pa., research company TNS as its new managing director in Thailand.
Los Angeles research firm BB-Media Business Bureau has hired John Camarillo as business development and strategy director.
Directions Research Inc., Cincinnati, has appointed Joseph Hall as senior vice president, big data custom solutions, Miguel Martinez-Baco as vice president, qualitative and Hispanic insights and Jeff Eha as account manager. Also, Jim Lane was promoted to CMO and Tim Laake was promoted to senior vice president, key accounts and business development.
Added Value South Africa, a Johannesburg, South Africa, research company, has appointed Nicole Shapiro as associate director.
The Futures Company, a London management consulting firm, has appointed Valeria Piaggio as vice president of multicultural insights for its U.S. Yankelovich Monitor division. She will be based in Chicago.
New York data management and analytics company Mediamorph has appointed Rob Gardos as its new CEO. Mike Sid, cofounder, will become chief strategy officer.
Tom Markert has joined Research Now, Plano, Texas, as executive vice president of sales and business development.
New York researcher Nielsen has promoted John Lewis to global president. Karen Fichuk will replace him as president, North America.
Satya Yenigalla has joined FacialNetwork, a Henderson, Nev., cloud-based facial recognition firm, as its COO.
Quantcast, a San Francisco Internet company, has promoted Matt White to the role of U.K. managing director, replacing Phil Macauley, who had been named EMEA managing director earlier this year.
Halifax, U.K., research firm Teamsearch Fieldwork has hired Mark Briggs and Sajjad Naseer to its project management team.
New York researcher Nielsen has promoted Steve Hasker to global president across the media sector.
Erica Winters has joined Research & Marketing Strategies Inc., Baldwinsville, N.Y., as a market research analyst.
Geometry Global, a division of WPP, has hired Mary Jane Butler for its new role of client service director in Singapore.
London research firm Tonic Insight has promoted Anna Wills to the role of U.K. managing director and appointed Lucie Holliday group director, research and innovation.
BBC Worldwide Australia and New Zealand, Sydney, has appointed Joe Lynch as head of research and consumer insights.
Chicago research firm Information Resources Inc. has appointed JosŽ Carlos Gonz‡lez-Hurtado as president of international.
Jacques Nantel has joined Montreal, Canada, research company Leger as executive vice president, consumer insights.
RTi Research, Stamford, Conn., has hired Connor Thorpe as project director.
Dick Cahill has joined Oxfordshire, U.K., Internet firm EngageSciences as its COO.
London research firm Trinity McQueen (formerly Brass Insights) has hired Mike Roderick as research director.
Stephen Elliot has joined Framingham, Mass., research company International Data Corporation as vice president of the IT infrastructure and cloud practice.
V. “Seenu” Srinivasan, chief research advisor for Newtown, Penn., research company Optimal Strategix Group, received the 2014 Buck Weaver Award for advancement of theory and practice of marketing. This award was established in 2003 at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and is sponsored by General Motors Corp. to honor individuals who have made important contributions to the advancement of theory and practice in marketing science.
Encino, Calif., research firm Innovate has hired Lisa Wilding-Brown as executive vice president of global operations and Amanda Keller as senior director of global project management.
Dallas marketing agency Moroch has appointed Sam Chadha as the agency’s first chief integration officer and has added Glenn Geller and Dina Light-McNeely to its senior leadership team.
Kenshoo, a Tel Aviv, Israel, software company, has hired Doug Chavez as global head of marketing research and content.
Dublin marketing firm Brandtone has appointed Peter Bamford as chairman.