Consumer intelligence firm Maru/Matchbox, Toronto, has appointed Todd Trautz as chief innovation and solutions officer.
Jared Schrieber, CEO and co-founder of San Francisco-based consumer insights firm InfoScout, has joined the board of directors for Market Track, a market intelligence solutions firm and InfoScout’s parent company. With Schrieber’s change in role, Alexander Rink, Market Track’s chief growth officer, will serve as general manager for InfoScout.
India-based research firm MRSS India has added Satyen Sharma to its team.
Steven Wyatt has joined Compass Marketing Research, Atlanta, as vice president.
Dan Reilly has been promoted to senior vice president and leader of research and consulting firm SMS Research Advisors, a division of Minneapolis-based PR and communication company Padilla.
Kantar Worldpanel has appointed Lesley Ann Gray as strategic insight director for Scotland.
Data management platform Lotame, Columbia, Md., has promoted Jason Downie to chief strategy officer.
Baileigh Allen, founder and CEO of ZigZag Research, has joined Portugal-based consumer neuroscience platform MindProber as executive vice president in the Americas to help bring the company to the United States. Allen is based in Atlanta.
Digital data collection company Lightspeed has appointed Valerie Torge as senior account executive to support its expanding client portfolio on the West Coast. She will be based in the Los Angeles area.
Digital agency Isobar has promoted the following: Sue McCusker to chief client officer; Caroline Dean to chief marketing officer; and Vikalp Tandon to chief technology officer. McCusker and Dean are based in London and Tandon is based in Boston.
Durham, N.C., research firm W5 has hired Jonathan Morris as a practice consultant.
London-based research company Trinity McQueen has appointed Mich Preston as research director to expand its qualitative consultancy.
Ian Greenblatt has joined Costa Mesa, Calif., researcher J.D. Power to lead the technology, media and telecommunications practice.
Nielsen has appointed Andrey Dvoychenkov as managing director for Arabian Peninsula and Pakistan, based in Dubai, UAE. He succeeds Arslan Ashraf, who will take on a new role as Nielsen’s consumer insights leader for Southeast Asia, China, North Asia and Pacific, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Beatrice Capestany has joined Branford, Conn., firm Touchstone Research as senior research analyst.
Campbell Soup Company, Camden, N.J., has appointed Diego Palmieri as vice president and chief marketing officer, U.S. meals and beverages.
Los Angeles-based research firm Alter Agents has added Miriam Bishay to its team as research director.
Research company SKIM has named Nicole Gardere as vice president, global marketing, based in the Hoboken, N.J., office, and Marjolyn Oudakker as vice president, global human resources management, based in the Rotterdam, Netherlands office.
Holly Edmunds has joined qualitative research provider Digsite Inc. as senior business development executive.
New Orleans-based audience platform Lucid has appointed Rick Pittenger as its CTO to oversee the product and technology team. Additionally, Brett Schnittlich will be broadening his role as president to include the expansion of Lucid’s audience and measurement businesses.
U.K.-based researcher Maru Group has appointed Dina Plahouras as chief people officer.
Catherine Ullman has joined Nashville, Tenn.-based Targoz Market Research as a research analyst. She will be working with utility and energy clients focusing on energy use and electrification research.
Eric Schauble has joined Cincinnati-based firm Directions Research as vice president, client service on the company’s health care research team.
U.K. video insights firm LivingLens has added three new members to its customer success team. Brett Henderson will head the cross-territory customer success team and will be based in Toronto. Juliana Almeida joins the team in London and will focus on European relationships. Jenna Boccia will be based in Toronto and will focus on supporting clients in North America.
U.K. consumer insight agency Join the Dots has appointed Phil Andrews as a non-executive board member. The appointment coincides with the company’s Managing Director Quentin Ashby taking on the role of chief executive officer and Director Graeme Lawrence taking on the role of chief client officer.
In Chicago, consumer intelligence firm Maru/Matchbox has hired Erica Ruyle as VP of qualitative insights for its consumer insights sector.
Charles Gottdiener has been appointed president and CEO of information services company Neustar. He succeeds Lisa Hook, who served as president and CEO and board member since 2010. Hook will remain on the board to help with the transition.
Mitch Barns, CEO and board member for Nielsen, New York, will retire at the end of 2018. The board of directors will immediately begin a search process to identify a new CEO. James Attwood, current chairman of the board, has been named executive chairman. Barns will remain through the end of the year to oversee the company and Attwood, a managing director at The Carlyle Group, will assume a more active role and direct the search for new leadership.
Albuquerque, N.M., research consultancy Ameritest has appointed Abigail Hollister as president.
The board of directors for India-based research company MRSS India has appointed Dan Foreman as executive director, based in the U.K.
Matt Becher has joined Chagrin Falls, Ohio, research company Opinions LTD as sensory manager.
Research company Market Strategies International-Morpace has appointed Stephan Schroeder to its automotive team as vice president of business development.
MFour Mobile Research, Irvine, Calif., has added three new team members in survey operations and sales: Stacy Hua as a senior research consultant; Nathan Blush as a survey programming and design expert; and Ryan Houseman as solutions development representative.
Rob Mogerman has joined Ironwood Insights Group, Chandler, Ariz., as director of programming.
Research technology platform NAILBITER has appointed Amishi Takalkar as its new CEO, while Amit Dhand will transition from CEO to EVP of client services and continue to serve on the board.
Sports data and intelligence firm STATS, Chicago, has appointed Lisa Ackerman as senior vice president of customer success.
Audience data firm Eyeota has hired Pieter de Zwart as chief technology officer. The firm also has expanded its Australia and New Zealand team with the appointments of George Henshaw as senior supply manager and Laura Widdowson as senior manager – demand.
Research & Marketing Strategies Inc., Baldwinsville, N.Y., has promoted Sandy Baker to vice president for corporate strategy and Susan Maxsween to vice president for health care consulting and analytics.
Digital agency Wunderman has appointed Michael Murray as president and chief product officer of Wunderman Data Products, the company’s division that helps clients manage one-to-one relationships with customers at-scale. Murray will be based in Denver.
U.K.-based cross-media measurement firm RealityMine has appointed Billy Grant as product manager, a newly-created position.
John Hitchcock, associate professor of instructional systems technology at Indiana University’s School of Education, has joined research company Abt Associates as a principal associate.
U.K. research company FlexMR has promoted four researchers, allowing the company to introduce a new client helpdesk that will provide client support for its online research platforms. Grayling Ferguson has been promoted to helpdesk manager, while Amy Eborall has been promoted to head of research and insight. Iulia Ghindeanu and Mayra Munguia have both been promoted to insight managers.
Nuremberg, Germany, research company GfK has appointed Warren Saunders as general manager for Northern Europe. Saunders succeeds Ivar Michaelsen, who was appointed senior vice president of market insights.
Joey Doney has joined research company Kelton Global as vice president, insights and strategy in the firm’s Chicago office.
London-based translation and language services firm GlobaLexicon has promoted James Heneghan to associate director.
User experience research firm UserTesting, Mountain View, Calif., has appointed Michelle Huff as chief marketing officer and Carol MacKinlay as chief people officer.
Research services firm Fieldwork has promoted Aryn O’Donnell to vice president. O’Donnell will continue to be involved in business development and corporate initiatives.
Clare Chai has rejoined digital research agency MetrixLab as managing director for Greater China. Chai previously worked for the company as senior client director.
MarketVision Research, Blue Ash, Ohio, has promoted the following team members: Emily Reynolds and Kyle Crockett-Smith to senior research associate; Tricia Sypniewski, Abby Miller and Shannon Murphy to research manager; and Frank Gutowski to vice president. In addition, the company has hired the following: Aaron Baker, Melissa Barford and Deborah Nell as research assistants in client services; Meredith Comerford as research assistant in graphics; and Meredith Divine as research assistant in online communities.
Simmons Research, New York, has added three executives to its team: Dan Zislis, VP, head of agency sales; Jim Laiderman, VP of product and custom analytics; and Abhinav Kothari, senior director, engineering.
Branded Research Inc., San Diego, has added Josh Mankiewicz and Will Luckey as account executives to work out of the company’s newly-established sales offices in Boston.
San Mateo, Calif., firm Rakuten Marketing has appointed Stuart Simms as chief executive officer.
Complete Research Connection in Columbus, Ohio, has promoted Dina Hartman-Wallace to client services manager – facility.
London-based research firm MESH Experience has hired Mark Thompson as experience director, focusing on the company’s retail banking study.
Toni Green has joined research company Smarty Pants, New York, as research whiz, responsible for designing, fielding, managing and analyzing research for several of the company’s CPG, media and entertainment clients.
Health care data and market intelligence firm Decision Resources Group, Boston, has appointed Davis Walp as chief strategy officer.
Research and analytics firm GBH Insights, New York, has appointed Russell Winer, the William Joyce Professor of Marketing at the Stern School of Business at New York University, to its advisory board.
San Mateo, Calif., survey software company SurveyMonkey has added Erika Hayes James to its board of directors. James is a researcher and consultant and has served as the John H. Harland Dean of Goizueta Business School since 2014.
Marketing solutions firm V12 Data, based in Wesley Chapel, Fla., has appointed Andrew Frawley as chief executive officer and vice chairman of the board of directors.
Research company GfK’s auto syndicated team in North America has tapped Jim Ehrlich as SVP and account manager. He will be based in Los Angeles and primarily work with West Coast automotive clients.
Marketing solutions company Marketing Evolution, New York, has appointed Michael A. Cohen as senior vice president and chief data science and analytics officer.
New York location intelligence company Cuebiq has appointed Shane Wiley as chief privacy officer. The firm has also named Brennan Lake as program director for its Data for Good initiative. The program allows researchers at universities and nonprofit organizations leverage Cuebiq’s location insights to drive innovation in community causes.
New York-based social media measurement firm Shareablee has appointed advisory board member Greg Dale as chief operating officer.
Insights and analytics firm Clarivate Analytics has appointed Timothy Neely as managing director, Japan.
U.K. health care-focused advisory group Cello Health has added Clifford Tompsett and Jo LeCouilliard to its board of directors. They replace Paul Hamilton and Will David, who have both stepped down as non-executive directors.
Research company Ipsos has appointed Suresh Ramalingam as CEO of Southeast Asia, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Sterling, Va., information services firm Neustar Inc. has appointed Brian Kober as senior vice president and chief strategy officer.
In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, research company Gartner announced that Peter Sondergaard, executive vice president of research and advisory, resigned from his position due to behavior in the workplace the company said was “inconsistent with its code of conduct and core values.” Michael Harris has been appointed as the new executive vice president of research and advisory.
Arlington, Va., research company Fors Marsh Group has appointed Doug Chapin as director of election research, responsible for leading the research, analysis and delivery of the company’s election research programs and the staff in the field.
David Hooper has joined Princeton, N.J., consultancy Strategic Research Insights as principal and head of qualitative research.
Los Angeles-based research and analytics consultancy LRW has promoted Jeremy Sack to president. Sack will oversee several businesses, including LRW, LRWTonic and LRWMotivequest, which all provide research and consulting services to Fortune 500 clients.
U.K. agency ResearchBods has appointed 11 new staff members in the last six months, including Robbie Stewart as business analyst. New members of the insight and strategy team include Hannah Downs as insight director, Jim Parkinson as associate director, Steven Bird as senior insight executive and Joe Woolley as insight executive. New hires for the operations and development team include Kirk Stevens as scrum master, Ben Jones as trainee operations executive, Michael Weatherby as senior data engineer and Lil Stanton as junior data executive. For the PM team, Chloe Emerson has been appointed as senior project manager and Angeliki Tzempetzi as trainee project manager.