Daily Research News Online no. 6874 - Nine New Hires for Gongos

Nine New Hires for Gongos

June 5 2007

US MR provider Gongos Research has announced further rapid growht with nine new appointments since the beginning of the year.

The firm says the hires will support growth driven by its technology-based research programmes.

Seven of the recruits take up newly created posts in the Consumer Products, Retail/Services, and Automotive/Powersports divisions:

Kerstin Siemes becomes Project Director Consumer Products, having formerly been a Senior Project Manager of multinational studies at MM-Research in Stuttgart, Germany and briefly worked as Global Project Manager at Kantar Operations North America.

Jennifer Logan is now Project Coordinator in the Consumer Products team, while Kelly Jasper joins as Project Director Retail/Services from her previous role of Project Manager for Market Strategies' healthcare division.

Nicole Kusha becomes Senior Project Coordinator Retail/Services; Julie Baghdoian takes up the role of Project Coordinator Retail/Services; and Mitch Uyeda and Amanda Goodrich both join the Automotive/Powersports team as Project Coordinators.

Matt Castle and Kristopher Torry have also joined Gongos Research as Programmer/Analysts to develop proprietary consumer insight applications.

The company plans to hire three additional programmers to further support its Gongos iCommunities platform, which encourages consumers to relate with one another in an interactive, online environment. President John Gongos commented: 'Technology is truly changing the way we do research. The day-to-day development and management of research-driven online communities requires dedicated and cohesive teams of programmers, and qualitative and quantitative researchers.'

Michigan-based Gongos was founded as a custom marketing research company in 1991, and specialises in research that supports product and service development. The company's web site address is www.gongos.com .