Daily Research News Online no. 6392 - GMI Appointments and Upgrade

GMI Appointments and Upgrade

February 1 2007

Software and panels firm GMI has promoted two senior execs at its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Sydney, in addition to making two senior appointments in Seattle and a raft of others worldwide. It has also upgraded its Research Analyzer tables tool, with enhanced weighting and data manipulation features.

Tatt Chen, former MD, Client Services and Operations, becomes VP, Asia-Pacific, responsible for GMI's regional profit and loss account. Benny Huang, former Marketing Director based at GMI in Shanghai, China, is promoted to MD, Marketing, Asia-Pacific, now based at the company's Sydney office.

Chen says the firm has built 'very powerful partnerships with some of the largest market research firms in the region' in a period of just over a year.

Asia-Pacific currently accounts for just 14% ($3.3 billion) of the global market research industry, according to ESOMAR, but its growth and potential are well known. 'With a year-on-year growth estimated at 8.9%, APAC will continue to outpace all other regions' says Huang, 'offering huge potential for our market research software, respondent panels reaching six million consumers worldwide, and service bureau.'

In Seattle, Lisa Ricci joins the company as Vice President, Panel Operations, with more than 20 years of operations management experience in technology and related service industries. She joins from Cascade Consulting Group, and worked previously at software development firm Wall Data. Joelle Nole is appointed as MD, Program Management, bringing 11 years' experience in the technology, entertainment, and non-profit sectors, most recently as IT Manager, Project Services at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where she spent six years. She worked previously for Chase Bobko.

Other new arrivals in the past month are:

Shelly Anton, Purchasing Agent - Seattle, USA
Jun Clarke, Project Fulfillment Manager - Sydney, Australia
Jon Currie, Director, Sales - Los Angeles, USA
Julie Hübschmann, Marketing Assistant - Munich, Germany
Steven Kennedy, Sales Director - Denver, USA
Christine McComb, Director of Accounting - USA
Courtney Mills, Sales Assistant - Los Angeles, USA
Elena Mitina, Marketing Manager - Moscow, Russia
Maaike Oerlemans, Marketing Assistant - 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Joseph Quinto, Associate Director, Business Analysis - Seattle, USA
Sandy Saco, Sales Director - San Francisco, USA
Samson Tam, Human Resources Director, Asia-Pacific - Sydney, Australia
Betsy Yalcin, Human Resources Director - Seattle, USA

Research Analyzer is a tool for the production of cross-tabs and the publishing of reports in PowerPoint, Excel or as PDFs. New features with today's release include enhanced weighting wizards for creating weight sets from complex combinations of variables; scaling and summary tables, a simple row and column swap feature and new easy-to-read table formats.

GMI's home page is at www.gmi-mr.com .

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