Seven Appointments for MSI

Michigan-based Market Strategies International (MSI) has announced five new hires and two senior promotions. Janice Anderson, Rob Delghiaccio, Paul Hartley, Chris Oberle and Dawn Palace are the new arrivals while newly promoted VPs are Tish Hasting and Sue Nicol.

Hasting, who becomes Vice President, Analytics, has fourteen years' MR industry experience and was most recently the firm's Director of Product Management. Before joining the company, she worked at J.D. Power and Associates, and earned a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Wayne State University. In her new role she will lead the analyst and information design functions.

Nicol is promoted to Vice President, Research Management. Formerly Director of Research Management, she has more than 25 years' MR sector experience, from companies including American Community Mutual Insurance, ABN AMRO Mortgage Company and Thompson Associates. She holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan-Dearborn. In her new role, Nicol manages the staff in charge of project management for all quant and qual projects.

The five new hires join the firm's Technology, Healthcare, Communications and Energy Divisions. Chris Oberle joins as an SVP in the Energy Division, with more than a quarter of a century of experience in the energy and financial services sectors, including a spell as Senior Director and co-founder of the energy practice at J.D. Power and Associates.

Hartley and Palace join as Vice Presidents in the Communications Division. Hartley has nearly twenty years' experience in telecom and tech, and has recently led large research projects with a variety of major carriers. Prior to joining Market Strategies, he held similar roles at comScore and LGR Telecommunications. Palace has worked in MR, multi-channel marketing and organizational development for two decades and worked most recently as Senior Vice President with Meredith Xcelerated Marketing.

Anderson, now a VP in the Technology Division, has ten years' quant and qual experience, and before MSI worked as a Vice President of Client Services for Ipsos Vantis. Delghiaccio, whose VP role is in the Healthcare Division, joins after eighteen years in the sector on both client and consulting sides, including time at Lilly, Merck and J&J Company Ethicon Endo-Surgery.

The company, which in May this year acquired wealth management specialist Cogent Research, was founded in 1989 and has offices in the US, Canada and China. Web site: www.marketstrategies.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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