Ann-Christine Fick, CFO of market researcher Nepa, has resigned from the position.

GfK Consumer Life has appointed Dave Melnick as commercial account development lead, North America.

QRCA has announced its 2022-2023 board of director officers including Michael Mermelstein as president and Lauren Isaacson as vice president.

Market research and consulting firm Smarty Pants has appointed Lautaro Cabrera as insights whiz. 

Cassandra, Big Village’s insights and strategy group, has appointed Claire Richland as manager, Cassandra Report. 

Data and analytics firm Annalect has appointed Marie Clayton as U.K. managing director.

Insights agency The Forge has appointed Danielle Todd and Jill Sarsfield as senior quantitative directors. 

Nielsen has appointed Deepak Mann as director, marketing effectiveness, India.

EMI Research Solutions has appointed Angie Trujillo Emrie, Sahil Mehta and Goshen Perry as directors of business development. 

Health care decision support specialist Krea eKnowledge has appointed Sridhar Mani as chief revenue officer. 

Kantar Public has appointed Zarina Ward as chief people officer and as part of its global management board.

Design research agency The Big Picture has promoted Chris Aukett and Laura Pereira to joint managing director roles as John Cassidy, its previous managing director, becomes chairman.  

Insights platform Sympler has appointed John Schiela as chief client officer and Kristin Jutton as head of marketing. 

Behaviorally has appointed Jeff McDonald as VP, market development.

GfK has appointed Michael Chung as VP, AutoMobility and West Coast account management.

Dan Wann, Murray State University professor, has been named a research fellow by the Sport Marketing Association. 

Market research and consulting company Parks Associates has promoted Chris White to director, smart home and energy research.

Research and consulting firm Smarty Pants has promoted Alejandro Hernandez and Liz Dibley to insights brainiacs.

The American Marketing Association Chicago has awarded Meghan Hurley the Marketer of the Year award. 

Insights and data firm Delineate has hired Sandra Garbuno Alcantara as head of LATAM. 

Clear Seas Research has hired Bradford Boyer and Timothy Hamel as market research project managers.

Kantar has appointed Steve Silvers as EVP, creative and media solutions. 

The Institute for Public Relations Measurement Commission has elected Tony Cheevers, customer success officer at Researchscape International, for a two-year term. 

Performance marketing company Fluent has appointed David Graff and Richard Pfenniger Jr. to its board of directors. 

Market researcher FlexMR has appointed Lily Nawara as research associate, Kris Hamilton as Scrum master, Charisma Agyemang as business development representative and Hannah McGeoghegan as participant engagement manager. 

Strategic insights consultancy Nature has appointed Aliya Hasan as strategy director. 

Digital research agency Azure Knowledge has appointed Remek Gabrys as European business unit head based in London and Justin Blomgren as VP, client development in the U.S.  

Market research and analytics company Leger has appointed Paul Lauzon as SVP for its Vancouver office.

Beehive Research has appointed Rune Wennesland as non-executive director.

Ipsos has appointed Lauren Demar has as chief sustainability officer and global head of ESG.

Customer experience management company Merkle has hired Christiane Georg as COO, EMEA.

Insight agency TRA has appointed Laura Mulcahy as director, cultural strategy.

Strategy and insight consultancy Rainmakers CSI has promoted George Randell and Chris Tough to senior consultant roles and has hired Megan Bateman as consultant and Diellza Osmanaj and Sonny Dewhurst as associate consultants.

ACA Research has hired Phil Newbold and Natasha Burnley as senior account managers, Melissa Borg as account manager, Paj Johnstone as account executive and Angus McLachlan as graduate researcher. 

Ipsos has appointed Hamish Munro as APAC CEO and Suresh Ramalingam as its chief client officer, APAC. 

Attention measurement company Adelaide has appointed John Wadsworth-Drake as VP, sales for west and central U.S.

Research logistics firm Communications for Research has hired Angela McCue as insights director.

Custom insights firm Russell Research has appointed Jane Snyder as VP, strategy and client service. 

CX platform DISQO has appointed Nicholas Weaver as VP, engineering.

Research and insight company Verve has appointed Maggie Kilbride-Singh, Saskia Racke, Jacob Barns and Rachel Hughes to its Manchester hub and William Wallis, Jade Isaacs and Aynish Mahmood to its London hub. All are joining as part of its graduate scheme. 

Women in Research (WIRe) has named Bianca Pryor and Laarni Paras as the winners of the WIRe MRX Diversity Champion Award.