Daily Research News Online no. 23314 - Rapid Expansion for Chime Team

Rapid Expansion for Chime Team

September 28 2016

UK-based Chime Insight & Engagement has made more than two dozen new appointments across the business, including former Sainsbury's Customer Insight Manager Simon Rawlinson as Insight Director.

Rawlinson (pictured) joins from MEC, where he served as Analytics Director, analyzing client and competitive spend, and contextualizing the data with local market understanding. Prior to this, he was Insight and Strategy Manager at Cosine, Commercial Director at GfK Mystery Shopping, and Customer Insight Manager at Sainsbury's Supermarkets. In his new role, Rawlinson will focus on helping clients improve customer experience using specialist voice of customer agency Watermelon's range of real-time dashboards. In addition, Watermelon has appointed four new analysts, as well as Consultant Mark Konyi-Kiss, who previously held survey programming roles at Instantly and Research Now.

Telephone research specialist Facts International adds Amy Russell, who joins from Ipsos MORI as an Associate Director, leading the delivery of large-scale research programmes, and managing client relationships from proposal through to delivery. Olga Mordovina takes up the role of Senior Project Director, with a background in healthcare projects from Medefield, Toluna and WorldOne. Additionally, CIE's London-based agency Opinion Leader has hired Nick Maybanks as Associate Director, with a background in NGO and public sector research gained while working for the BBC Media Action, the broadcaster's overseas development charity.

Other new hires include:

Tom Gould, Insight Manager, Chime Insight & Engagement
Karis O'Leary, Research Executive, Chime Insight & Engagement
Abigail Samuel, Research Assistant, Chime Insight & Engagement
Lena Hules, Graduate, Chime Insight & Engagement
Stephanie Wightwick, Graduate, Chime Insight & Engagement
Natasha Addley, Assistant Management Consultant, Facts International
Nicola Holyoake, Training and Quality Manager, Facts International
Liam Tully, Resourcing Coordinator, Facts International
Rachel Mason, Research Executive, Facts International
Richard Bradford, Research Executive, Facts International
Andy Wilson, Project Executive, Facts International
Alex Saxby, Field Executive, Facts International
Liam Padgett, IT Apprentice, Facts International
Lidia, Pascaul-Jimenez, Analyst, Watermelon
Jordon Gilmour, Analyst, Watermelon
Daniel Carrington, Analyst, Watermelon
Lucas Spicer, Analyst, Watermelon
Tanya Colbran, Senior Research Executive, Opinion Leader, and
Tele Ogunyemi, Research Executive, Opinion Leader.

Crispin Beale, Chime Insight & Engagement Group's CEO, says of the hires: 'In 2015 and 2016 we have enjoyed higher levels of client wins than ever before, while existing clients are further extending their services with us. To keep pace with this unprecedented growth, we have expanded our team across all levels. As our expansion continues, we will remain focused on recruiting the highest-quality team to ensure we provide the best minds in the industry, meeting and exceeding client needs across all disciplines'.

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