Research and consulting firm Smarty Pants has promoted Emily Rowe to insights genius and Samantha Owens Davis and Jordan Powers to insights know-it-alls.

QualSights has appointed Deepika Pradeep Sahithi as digital marketing manager and Jorge Psihas as account coordinator. 

UK Research and Innovation has appointed Ian Chapman as chief executive officer.

Customer identity and access management company FusionAuth has appointed Kim Maida as senior director, developer relations. 

Verve has promoted Peter Latham, Sanne van der Steeg and Jamie Lyle to directors, Carla Berzolla to associate director, Jay Daniells and Alice Virgo to senior consultants, Samuel Winterbottom to associate director, Verve Vero, Ani Gherghel and Elena Diaconu to senior project managers, Darius Comanescu to senior scriptor and Charlotte Whittle to marketing manager. 

Norstat has appointed Berit Puggaard as managing director, Norstat Denmark.

HoneyComb Strategy has appointed Keanu Giummarra as strategy director and Benjamin Barlow as senior strategy consultant.

Verve has appointed Zoë Ruffels and Jon Whitmore to its board as non-executive directors. 

Catalyse Research has appointed Faraz Zamyadi as managing director, U.K.

Truth Consulting has appointed Jon Suarez as head of its qual, behavior and culture team. 

Research expert network Zintro has hired Geetika Grover as a project manager.

Insight company Alligator Digital has promoted Maria Butylina to managing director. 

Research and analysis company SigDiff has appointed Jeremiah Fryer as director.

Unimrkt Research has appointed Kiratman Kaur, Chandan Rai, Khushi Shukla, Ayushmaan Banerjee, Urvashi Srivastava and Riti Bhatia as research associates. 

Consumer insights company Material has appointed Anutosh Yadav as SVP and CTO and Ben Mooneyas managing director, APAC.

RED C Research has appointed Tommi Happonen as a research executive.

The Behavioural Architects has promoted Ben Jones to global AI product innovation lead.

Fieldwork has appointed Nikki Darré as president.

Nielsen has appointed Kirsten Riolo as head, consumer insights, Australia and New Zealand. 

The National Research Corporation has appointed Trent Green as chief executive officer, effective June 1. Green will succeed Mike Hays who will transition into the role of chairman. 

Strategy and creative agency VSA Partners has promoted YanYan Zhang and Kim Mickenberg to partners and Susan Pfeifer to head, operations. 

Research consultancy Alter Agents has appointed Matt Kischer-Sallman as research director and Jess Largent as senior research manager.

Behaviorally has appointed Peter Cynkar as behavioral qualitative director.

Thinks Insight & Strategy has appointed Tom McDonough as a research assistant.

Healthcare Research Worldwide has appointed Beth Carey as associate vice president, project management.

Research and planning consultancy STRAT7 Incite has appointed Tasleem Rehmatullah as principal, Incite Health and Douglas Airton as associate, Incite Health.

Consumer insights platform aytm has appointed Glenn Fleischman as chief revenue officer.

Research company RAIT has appointed Stine Halberg as group CEO.

Stratega Market Research has appointed Gabriela Midro as project manager.

Snowflake has appointed Mike Gannon as chief revenue officer.

BoltChatAI has appointed Vatsala Rathore as client vice president.

Kantar Media has appointed Dennis Christensen as managing director, Denmark.

Healthcare Research Worldwide has appointed Kiran Akhtar as senior research executive. 

Human8 has appointed Alex Creed as head, business development, U.S.

Swift Research has promoted Harry Pennock to data manager.

Thinks Insight & Strategy has promoted Anh Hoang to senior research executive. 

Strategic consultancy and research firm KS&R has appointed Christine Nelson to the executive committee of its board of directors. 

Luth Research has appointed Sean McKenna as SVP, business development.

Strategic data consultancy Fifth Dimension has appointed Andrew Slot as managing director. 

Unimrkt Research has appointed Shushant Sharma, Riya Singh, Ayushi Choudhary, Niveditha Haridas, Khushboo Dubey and Rishabh Mallik as business research associates.

Hightouch has appointed Lindsay McEwan as general manager, EMEA.

Knowledge management platform Bloomfire has appointed Philip Brittan as CEO.

Route Research has appointed Euan Mackay as chief executive, succeeding Denise Turner who leaves Route in July to join the IPA as media research director.  

Semrush has appointed William Wagner as CEO as Oleg Shchegolev, co-founder and current CEO, assumes the role of CTO.

Thinks Insight & Strategy has promoted Hannah Gregory to project coordinator and Anh Hoang to senior research executive.

Insight consultancy Basis has appointed Ayoade Folorunso and Alan Moc as operations assistants and Chris Pruce as a research executive. 

Customer data science company dunnhumby has appointed Sylvia Cawley as head, dunnhumby Ireland. 

Translation and interpretation provider CETRA has appointed Elizabeth Harter as director, operations. 

Media effectiveness platform DoubleVerify has appointed Carl Kisseih as lead enterprise sales director, Owen Boyne as enterprise sales director and Chris Mort as global client partner.

Research and strategy firm Bovitz has promoted Maggie Shi to research director, Grace Laffoon to senior research manager, Sarah Barbarula and Patricia Dingus to research managers and Krystal Serrano to senior research coordinator.

Material has appointed Laila Worrell as chief executive officer. 

Consumer insights platform Zappi has appointed Ian Myszenski as VP, revenue operations.

iMAD Research has appointed Quincy Brown as VP, research and CATI services.

Stratega Market Research has appointed Marcelina Muszalska as junior recruitment specialist.

Bolt Insight has appointed Gabriela Matsumoto Carazato as head, France. 

Consumer insights platform Zappi has appointed Connor Gaudette as customer success manager. 

Insights firm Burke has appointed Joanna Patterson as VP, client services.

Research and consulting firm The Martec Group has promoted Ken Donaven to partner.

Brainlabs has appointed Ali Reed as chief growth officer, U.K.

MiQ has appointed Eric Tourtel as CEO, MiQ Latin America.

Online B2B panel company Empanel Online has promoted RJ Horne to chief operating officer.

Insights company Material has appointed Oscar Yuan as chief strategy and growth officer.

Innovation and brand consulting agency Quester has appointed Eric Solomon as head, brand consulting. 

Insight consultancy Basis and DJS Research have partnered with CoLab to offer a new way to engage consumers and generate data and insights.

Insight and cultural intelligence agency The Mix has appointed Martyn Hill as head, business development.

DVJ Insights has appointed Tijl de Veer, Pilar Laguno and Ioana Stanescu as research experts and Ha Ny Dao as an intern for The Lab.

Advertising data and planning technology company Guideline has appointed Tim Peters as chief marketing officer and VP, demand generation.

Insight consultancy C Space has appointed Zoë Carter as managing director, EMEA.

Thinks Insight & Strategy has promoted Alex Beard to senior director, Mayesha Choudhry to design executive, Anh Hoang and Orla O’Dwyer to senior research executives, Samm Gates to head, project operations, AnaMarcelle Martinez to senior operations executive, Hannah Gregory and Janice Osibo to project coordinators and Alice MacDonald to operations manager. It has also appointed Bianca Seong as behavioral researcher, Iris Cousins and Mahika Duseja as research assistants and Molly Jackson-French and Eva Voukelatou as project managers.

Research expert network Zintro has hired Annalyn Bautista as a recruiter.

Field management company FieldCats has appointed Pete Denman as project manager. 

Consumer insights platform Zappi has appointed Gabi Puglia as associate project manager. 

Unimrkt Research has appointed Vishal Kumar Mandal, Saurabh Singh and Arti Talan as business research associates and Rishabh Kapoor as research associate.