MRA Names Officers and Candidates

US professional body MRA (the Marketing Research Association) has announced the nominations for its 2010-2011 Board of Directors, and confirmed Elisa Galloway of Galloway Research Service as President for the year.

She will be joined by President-Elect Ken Roberts, President of Cooper Roberts Research, Inc.; Treasurer Kevin Lonnie, President of KL Communications, Inc.; and Secretary Jill Donahue, Brand Insights Manager at Nestle Purina.

Five seats will be contested for Director At Large roles. Of these, supply side seats will go to three of Scott Baker, EVP at Adept Adept Consumer Testing; ISA President Mike Halberstam; Vaughn Mordecai, President of Discovery Research Group; Melissa Pepper, CSO of Tammadge Market Research; Kathy Pilhuj, SVP Data Collection and Production at JV company Scarborough Research; and Kantar Operations CEO Beth Teehan.

Meanwhile three researchers - Kathy Frankovic, Consultant at CBS News' Election & Survey Unit; Kimberly-Clark's Cathy Scott; and Aflac's Dan Womack - will compete for two end user positions.

MRA members will vote for candidates between March 1 and April 1.

Web site: www.mra-net.org .

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