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Seven Hires for MMR

November 27 2012

UK-based agency MMR Research Worldwide, which focuses on the food, drink, personal and household care sectors, has announced seven new appointments including Client Services Director Janine Gamon and ADs Dan Hibbs, Tim Button and Tom Pile.

New arrivals at MMRThe seven will be split between the company's Wallingford, Oxfordshire headquarters and its London office.

Gamon has worked in MR since 1986, but began her career as a hospital manager before moving into social research for BMRB, TNS and Millward Brown - and has also run her own research business. She joins from Somerset County Council where she was a Research Manager.

Pile brings eleven years' experience in MR, the last five of them at TNS where he focused on qual. He holds a postgraduate diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Hibbs' decade of experience in research has involved him in a range of projects from category vision and brand strategy to launch roll-outs and in-store execution, and most recently optimising the global innovation pipeline of the Reckitt Benckiser Healthcare division at Nielsen.

Button has spent ten years in research, most of them as an Associate Manager, Client Consulting at Nielsen company BASES, and will now work on beverage, personal and household care projects.

Helena Nilsson-Ghosh joins as a Research Manager after seven years in MR including spells as a technical support officer and media researcher, most recently at GfK NOP. She earned a Masters in Applied Social and Market Research from the University of Westminster.

Mark Osborn joins as a Survey Programmer, from Maritz Research where he built online surveys for a variety of large international clients. He brings more than four years' experience.

Alice Parry joins as a Trainee Research Executive having just completed a BSc in Psychology at Leeds University.

The firm has offices in the UK, USA, Singapore and China and is part part of the privately-owned MMR Group, founded in 1989 by Professor David Thomson. Web site: www.mmr-research.com .

All articles 2006-23 written and edited by Mel Crowther and/or Nick Thomas, 2024- by Nick Thomas, unless otherwise stated.

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