Ron Magliocco has joined Boston-based retail intelligence and merchandising services company Survey.com as chief customer officer.
Research solutions firm E-Tabs has hired Russ Budden as consultant team manager for its head office in London.
Philadelphia-based B2B media company NAPCO Media has appointed Nathan Safran as director of research to lead the firm’s newly-created research team.
San Francisco-based data connectivity services provider LiveRamp has hired Jeff Smith as CMO.
In the U.K., the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising has appointed Clare McNally-Luke as head of research and survey management and Dan Flynn as head of marketing and sales for its survey, TouchPoints.
San Mateo, Calif., software and solutions firm Marketo Inc. has appointed Shankar Venkataraman as chief scientist.
U.K.-based qualitative agency Tonic Insights has hired Michael Aronsson and Lauren Moranor as account executives for its New York office.
Denver research firm iModerate has appointed Michael Steinberg as senior vice president of client development and Steve Dodge as vice president of client development.
Cincinnati-based firm Directions Research has hired Mike Herrel as a development manager in the firm’s Business Intelligence Group. Additionally, Shannon Goyda has been hired as a senior research analyst and will work remotely from the firm’s Greensboro, N.C., office.
U.K. research agency Future Thinking has appointed Adele Gritten as director of key accounts.
Dublin-based e-commerce analytics company Profitero has appointed Daniel King as president and COO, a new position within the company.
Baldwinsville, N.Y., firm Research & Marketing Strategies Inc. (RMS) has hired John Dishaw as QualiSight administrative associate for the firm’s RMS QualiSight team.
Columbia, Md., marketing agency Merkle has appointed Peter Randazzo as chief technology officer, product.
Probe Research Inc., New York, has hired Latavia Curtis to further the firm’s client relations in major metropolitan markets across the U.S.
Nielsen, New York, has added Lauren Zalaznick as an independent director to the company’s board of directors.
Allen Wolff has joined Baldwinsville, N.Y., firm Research & Marketing Strategies Inc. as QualiSight lead telesurvey associate.
New York mobile brand advertising company Kargo has appointed AJ Mathew as vice president of research, a newly-created role.
Panos Mastrogiannis, chief information officer for retail merchandising and marketing services company SPAR Group Inc., White Plains, N.Y., will be leaving the company to pursue other opportunities.
Dunkin’ Brands, the Canton, Mass.-based parent company of Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin-Robbins, has reported that Paul Twohig, president of Dunkin’ Donuts U.S. and Canada, has decided to retire at the end of the first quarter of 2017. The company plans to name a successor before the end of the year and is currently conducting a search which will consider both internal and external candidates. Twohig will remain in his current position until a successor is appointed. After that, he will remain actively involved with the company until he retires next year. Dunkin’ Brands has also promoted Chris Fuqua to senior vice president, Dunkin’ Donuts Brand Marketing, Global Consumer Insights and Product Innovation and Scott Hudler to chief digital officer.
Dublin-based firm RED C Research & Marketing Ltd. has appointed Conor Murphy as director.
SmartBug Media, an Irvine, Calif., inbound marketing agency, has hired Katie Gutwein as a senior inbound marketing consultant.
Research and consulting agency Research Partnership has appointed Tom Nolte as director, head of business analytics, North America, based in the company’s Philadelphia headquarters.
Communicus Inc., a Tucson, Ariz., research consultancy, has named Tom Tessman as vice president, senior director of client engagement to lead national business expansion efforts. Tessman will be based in the Minneapolis market.
Paul O’Donnell has joined Canada-based incentives solutions firm 360insights as its new chief revenue officer.
Southfield, Mich., shopper and consumer marketing firm The Mars Agency has appointed Elise Wilfinger as EVP, corporate strategy and brand officer. Wilfinger will be based in the firm’s New York office.
Julie Herendeen has joined the board of directors for Cambridge, Mass., marketing and sales software company HubSpot.
Jim Steber, founder and president of St. Louis-based research company Communications for Research Inc. (CFR), will retire after 18 years and sell the business to his son Colson Steber and Curtis Burrow, both current executives at the company. Colson Steber and Burrow will assume the title of co-CEOs, while Jim Steber will join CFR’s board of directors.
Kenetta Bailey has been named senior vice president, marketing for CBS Radio, New York.
Columbia, Md., performance marketing agency Merkle has appointed Neil Gissler as executive vice president, global technology and delivery.
U.K. retail and shopper data insights and consulting firm Kantar Retail has appointed CŽdric Guyot as its new CEO for Kantar Retail Virtual Reality.
Los Angeles nonprofit Women in Research has added Jane Frost, CEO of the Marketing Research Society, and Eric Salama, CEO of Kantar Group, to its advisory board.
U.K. nonprofit organization NatCen Social Research has appointed Nancy Kelley as the director of its Policy Research Centre.
Margie Omero has joined research-based consultancy Penn Schoen Berland, Washington, D.C., as executive vice president and will lead its U.S. Public Affairs practice.
Fairfield, Conn., firm GE has promoted Linda Boff to vice president, CMO.
Cincinnati research company Burke Inc. has promoted Thania Farrar to vice president of research innovation.
Columbia, Md., performance marketing agency Merkle has appointed Sean Creamer as executive vice president and chief financial officer.
The Urban Land Institute, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit education and research institute, has appointed Adam J. Smolyar as its chief marketing and membership officer.
San Mateo, Calif., enterprise contract lifecycle management firm Determine Inc. has promoted Rose Lee to chief customer officer.
Travis Santa has been named vice president of Branford, Conn., firm Touchstone Research Inc.
Nick Hawley has joined Seattle-based marketing organization Visit Seattle as director of marketing.
Culver City, Calif., panel and survey software firm dataSpring has appointed Mark Sullivan as director of business development - East Coast and Irene Wang as director of business development - China.
Research Triangle Park, N.C., e-commerce firm ChannelAdvisor has appointed Melissa Sargeant as CMO.
Jay White, CEO of Baltimore-based firm Baltimore Research, retired on May 29 at the age of 71.
The Main Street America Group, a Jacksonville, Fla., mutual insurance holding company, has promoted Darryl Osman, director, personal lines product management and market research, to assistant vice president.
Portsmouth, N.H., researcher Opinions 4 Good has appointed Marco Otero as senior director, client development.
Facebook, Menlo Park, Calif., has appointed Shant Oknayan as head of e-commerce, retail and online services at Facebook in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan.
Cloud-based incentive solutions firm Xactly, San Jose, Calif., has appointed Micheline Nijmeh as its CMO.
Target Corporation, Minneapolis, has hired Mark Tritton as executive vice president and chief merchandising officer. Additionally, Jason Goldberger will assume the newly created role of chief digital officer and president, Target.com.
Atlanta-based consulting, training and research firm Butler Street has appointed Jefferson Allen as CMO.
Mobivity Holdings Corp., a Phoenix-based provider of mobile and non-traditional marketing technologies for the restaurant and retail industries, has appointed Rick Muldowney as head of analytics.
The Lightspeed Group, Warren, N.J., has appointed Caroline Frankum as CEO, Europe, Middle East and Africa and a member of the board of directors.
MFour Mobile Research, Irvine, Calif., has added Daniel Baker to its operations team as a project manager.
New York app-based communications provider Multimedia Plus has hired Robert Guadalupe as SVP, sales and marketing.
Venice, Fla., enzyme supplement company Enzymedica has appointed Kevin Tautkus as executive vice president of marketing.
Cambridge, Mass., research and advisory firm Forrester has hired Mack Brothers as chief consulting officer.
Experian Marketing Services, New York, has appointed Jeffrey Wilks as executive vice president and general manager, Experian Marketing Suite.
Port Washington, N.Y., researcher The NPD Group Inc. has hired Kellen Frank as vice president, product development for NPD’s Retail Business Group sector. He will be based in Bentonville, Ark.
Adobe, San Jose, Calif., has named Cynthia Stoddard as senior vice president and chief information officer.
Customer engagement firm Rosetta, New York, has hired Colleen McDuffe as group vice president of marketing and communications.