Researcher and political pollster Sidney Hollander Jr. died on Aug. 24 at age 100. He founded Sidney Hollander Associates in 1949, which now continues as marketing research firm Hollander, Cohen and McBride in Baltimore. He was also a past president of the Association of Public Opinion Research and co-authored a 1964 university textbook titled Marketing Research.
Chris Cage (Christian Caggiano), MRA member and president of Indiana Research Service Inc., Fort Wayne, Ind., died on Sept. 1 at age 67.
Andrew Kohut, founding director and president of the Pew Research Center, died on Sept. 8 in Baltimore at the age of 73. Kohut also previously served as president of the Gallup Organization, founded Princeton Survey Research Associates and was the founding director of surveys for the Times Mirror Center.
Mumbai-based research firm MRSS India has tapped Archana Pai as vice president custom research (south). Manasi Mody has joined as the senior field operations manager and Pratyush Upadhyay has been hired as a research manager. In addition, the firm has named Rajesh Kumar as transportation and logistics practice guru; Chandramouli Guin as the head of public sector practice and Manish Ganvir as vice president of insight sciences. In addition, parent company Majestic Research has added Anita Phatak as manager.
Tucson, Ariz., advertising research firm Communicus Inc. has appointed Kathleen Coll as senior account director.
Evanston, Ill., digital marketing agency Leapfrog has named Scot Wheeler vice president, consumer intelligence and business analytics, a new position within the agency’s Consumer Journey practice.
Research firm Mozaic Group has appointed Amber Reilly as research director.
Cincinnati marketing attribution and optimization company ThinkVine has hired Matt Nitzberg as chief growth officer.
Lynbrook, N.Y., research firm OSC World has appointed David Lustig as vice president of business development – market research. He will be based out of Coral Springs, Fla.
Cambiar LLC, a Fountain Hills, Ariz.-based management consulting firm for the market research and analytics industry, has reappointed Beth Rounds as a partner in the firm. She was previously a partner in Cambiar from 2009 to 2013.
Toronto-based agency Bond Brand Loyalty has appointed Mike McDowell as the North American vice president of business development.
Costa Mesa, Calif., firm MFour Mobile Research has appointed Brian Landini as a staff accountant.
London-based research agency BDRC Continental has appointed Karen Small as client services manager for its hotels and hospitality research team.
U.K.-based research company Ipsos MORI has appointed Jim Needell as managing director of marketing.
Culver City, Calif., research consultancy Kelton Global has appointed Amy Snow as vice president of qualitative research.
ABC Family, Burbank, Calif., has appointed Karissa Zigarovich as director of consumer insights.
Honeoye Falls, N.Y., research and consulting firm KJT Group has appointed Danielle Zammit as vice president of global access. She is located in Switzerland and will work with the firm’s European practice.
New York research agency Millward Brown has appointed Matt Glace as global chief information officer.
Atlanta social marketing company Insightpool has appointed Chris Hackney as COO.
Bellevue, Wash., contract management software provider Icertis has appointed Marc Chouaniere as vice president of marketing.
Costa Mesa, Calif., firm MFour Mobile Research has hired Kevin Yonzon as project manager and added Andreas Hoelting to its project management team.
Peter Cornelius has been appointed director of client services – media for Ebiquity Australia and New Zealand, part of the London-based marketing analytics firm Ebiquity.
San Jose retail analytics firm RetailNext has appointed Kindra Tatarsky as head of corporate development.
Los Angeles-based online media publisher Evolve Media has appointed Jennifer Catto as senior vice president of integrated marketing. She will be based out of the company’s New York office.
Riverside, Calif.-based restaurant chain Farmer Boys has appointed Larry Rusinko as its new CMO.
Karen Sage, the CMO of Morrisville, N.C., spend management solutions firm SciQuest, has been named president of the Raleigh/Durham Chapter of the CMO Club, a New York-based community of senior marketing executives.
Radnor, Pa., visual analytics firm Qlik has appointed Les Bonney as chief strategy officer and Mark Thurmond as executive vice president of worldwide sales and services.
Cincinnati firm Directions Research has announced four new owners, three promotions and three new hires. Betsy Sutherland, Hannah Peters, Miguel Martinez-Baco and Tiffany Bailey are new owners of the firm. Hannah Peters has been promoted to account executive; KaRene Smith has been promoted to vice president, director marketing and design; and Mark Erwin has been promoted to vice president of client services. Eric Holmes has been hired as a research analyst, Emily Wildhaber has been hired as an HR/compliance coordinator and Jeff Hunter has been hired as the vice president of client services, health care division.
U.K. firm eDigitalResearch has appointed the following: Angie Coombe as research manager; David Jeans as senior research manager; Darryl Sherborne as project manager; Josh Martin as junior developer; Kathryn Littleboy as graduate research executive; Kim Seddon as HR assistant and Andrea Weaver as administration executive. The firm also promoted Craig Bright and Wangjia Sun to product and innovation roles.
London-based emotion recognition company Realeyes has appointed Jeff Ryan as chief data scientist.
Naples, Fla., golf operator Marriott Golf has named Brett Stark as senior director of marketing and e-commerce.
Oslo, Norway, data collection provider Norstat Norway has appointed Nina Kulas as managing director.
ICrossing U.K., part of New York-based digital marketing agency iCrossing, has named Mark Iremonger as the new CEO.
Cambridge, Mass., sales analytics company InsightSquared has appointed Joe Chernov as vice president of marketing.
The NPD Group, a Port Washington, N.Y., research firm, has hired Lori Gerber as senior vice president of sales for North America.
London-based media agency Carat Global has appointed James Harris as chief digital officer.
The University of Nebraska athletic department has named Tucker Zeleny as the director of sports analytics and data analytics.
Plymouth, Wis., firm Sargento Foods has named Gerald Cox as consumer insights manager.
San Francisco market intelligence solutions firm Ask Your Target Market has appointed JD Deitch as its COO.
Lombard, Ill., retail marketing services company the Carlson Group has appointed Abigail Craigen as account director.
Africa-based telecommunications company Airtel Ghana has appointed Rosy Fynn as marketing director.
Minneapolis-based product lifecycle company Logic PD has promoted Jason Voiovich to chief customer officer.
Atlanta marketing agency Moxie has appointed Kristina Jonathan as executive vice president of strategy.
Ogilvy Public Relations, New York, has named Kerry Sette executive vice president/research director of the Research Group.
India-based market research firm IMRB International has appointed K Ramkrishnan as general manager of IMRB Kantar World Panel business.
Belgium-based research firm InSites Consulting has added Tom Goderis to its group of managing partners.
Hilary Ranucci has joined Baldwinsville, N.Y., firm Research and Marketing Strategies Inc. as its business development coordinator.
Mt. Pleasant, S.C., online sample and research operations company Market Cube has appointed Alex Leger as vice president of product.
London-based research agency Future Thinking has appointed Dan Young as research director and the new head of Quantum Lab, the firm’s in-house think-tank for idea and product generation.
Debbie Liscinsky has joined Norwalk, Conn., firm RTi Research as senior vice president.
Socialbakers, a social media analytics firm based in Prague, has named Robert Lang as its new CEO.
Seth Solomons is returning to New York-based ad company Wunderman as the CEO of North America. Jamie Gutfreund has been named global CMO.
Somerville, Mass., television sell-side advertising platform clypd has hired Pete Doe as chief research officer.
RightEye, a Bethesda, Md., health technology company, has appointed Barbara Barclay as president.
Belia Jimenez has been appointed vice president of corporate research at New York media company Univision Communications Inc.
Meg Whitman, CEO of Palo Alto, Calif., information technology company HP, has joined the board of directors of Palo Alto, Calif., online survey development company SurveyMonkey.
Sweden-based firm Red Carpet Research has appointed Gary Stocks as senior vice president.
The National Association of Television Program Executives, Los Angeles, has appointed Matt Palmer as its new CMO.
The United Kingdom Online Measurement Company, London, has appointed Ian Dowds as its first CEO.
U.K.-based health care research consultancy Adelphi Research U.K. has appointed the following: Amanda Heselwood as associate director; RJ Lally and Helen Service as senior research executives and Deana Scott and Christian Atkinson as research executives.
Alpharetta, Ga., sample provider P2Sample has appointed Nelson Davis as director of client development and engagement.
New York research and brand strategy firm Open Mind Strategy has appointed Kate Pershing as a brand researcher and strategist and Ruth McCormack as an executive assistant.
Anthony Ciani has joined Russell Research, East Rutherford, N.J., as client services director.
IDC Health Insights, part of Framingham, Mass., market intelligence firm IDC, has appointed Jeff Rivkin to research director of its Healthcare Payer IT Strategies research service.
Boca Raton, Fla., mobile marketing firm 3Cinteractive has hired Kathleen Bowersox as senior director of talent management.
Dallas organization Susan G. Komen has appointed Charlotte (Carrie) Walsh as senior vice president of marketing.
Harte Hanks, a San Antonio- based marketing services agency, has appointed Karen Puckett as president and CEO.
Phil Thorpe has joined U.K. fieldwork management firm FieldBox as managing director, a newly created role.
London strategic insight consultancy Firefish has hired Steve Banks as qualitative director.
Albuquerque, N.M., research firm Ameritest has hired Margaret DiSantis as strategic insights director, a new position. She will be based in the firm’s Chicago office.
Richmond, Va., media company Media General has appointed Lucy Hughes as head of research.
London telecommunications firm BT has appointed Dan Ramsay as consumer marketing director.
Olson Zaltman, a research-based consulting firm based in Pittsburgh, has hired Randy Adis as a director. The firm has also formed a board of advisors consisting of: Joseph Plummer, adjunct professor at the Columbia Business School and former executive vice president at McCann Worldgroup; Wendy Larson, senior advisor at Alvarez and Marsal, former head of customer experience for MUFG Union Bank, and former head of client insights and loyalty for Charles Schwab; Jim Figura, founder of JSF Partners and former vice president, global consumer insights for the Colgate-Palmolive Company; and John Willard, former director of market research and consumer relations at Bayer Consumer Care.
Kimberly White has joined Westlake Village, Calif., researcher J.D. Power as an account director in the diversified practice.
The Disney/ABC Television Group, Burbank, Calif., has hired Cindy Davis as executive vice president of consumer experience and John Frelinghuysen as executive vice president of digital media, strategy and business development.
Cincinnati firm MarketVision Research has appointed the following: Stephanie Wells as a research associate for the qualitative field services team; Courtney Laughman as a research associate for the quantitative pharmaceutical client services team; Sara Kitchen as a research associate for the graphic design team; Rebecca Casbeer as a senior research associate for the quantitative client service team and Janice Gennaria and Carl Murphy as research associates for the market research online communities team.
New York-based content discovery platform Outbrain has hired Eric Hadley as global head of marketing solutions, a newly created position.
Boston start-up accelerator MassChallenge has appointed Diane Perlman as its new global CMO. She will be based in London.
Niwot, Colo., shoe manufacturer Crocs has promoted Terence Reilly to senior vice president and CMO.
SMG Insight, the sports and sponsorship arm of U.K. research agency YouGov, has appointed the following: Richard Brinkman as director of strategy and growth; Tracy Schoenadel as senior vice president of North America and Joseph Eapen as senior vice president of India.
Columbia, Md., performance marketing agency Merkle has appointed two to its retail and consumer goods practice: Mark Guenther and Alex Kooluris as vice president.
Cincinnati-based retailer Kroger Co. has appointed Chris Hjelm as executive vice president and CIO.
Fairfield, Conn.-based General Electric has named Linda Boff as its CMO.
Chicago-based hiring management software provider Hireology has appointed Joe Stanhope as its CMO.
Jackson Adept Research, Los Angeles, has named Angela Lorinchak as president.
Jennifer Storms has been named the CMO of NBC Sports Group, Stamford, Conn.
Los Angeles market research firm Screen Engine/ASI has appointed the following: Christina Parish as senior vice president of client services for television; Sylvia Ortiz-Moscato as vice president of research solutions; and Laura Zilli as vice president of research strategies.
Effective Jan. 1, 2016, Debbie Pruent will retire from Nuremberg, Germany, research firm GfK and will be re-placed by David Krajicek as chief commercial officer for the consumer experiences sector. Additionally, Alessandra Cama will take over the new role of chief operations officer.
Kirkland, Wash., big data technology company INRIX has appointed Chris Handley as vice president of product management and analytics.
Market research firm Mozaic Group has appointed Carolyn Ahlstrom as senior vice president.
France-based communications and marketing firm Havas Media Group has appointed Sharon Browne as its CMO.
Discovery Communications, Silver Spring, Md., has named Paul Guyardo as chief commercial officer, a newly created position.
Great Falls, Va., research firm Rockbridge Associates has appointed Timothy Keiningham as its chief strategy and client officer.
Ipsos, Paris, has named Nagisa Manabe as global president of the path to purchase and shopper service line, a newly created role. She will be based in the U.S.
Paul Allen of Yardley, Pa.-based firm Olson Research Group has been appointed vice president of the Pharmaceutical Marketing Research Group for 2016.
Dave Gaston has been named vice president of sales for Branded Research Inc., a research firm based in San Diego.