Holden Pearmain Hires Four for Bus Dev Push

UK-based Holden Pearmain Research has appointed four new business development professionals from a variety of market research agencies and client companies.

Lynn Morgan has a 20-year FMCG background, spent working across the food, drink and personal care sectors. She joins from MarketTools, where she worked as Business Development Director for Europe. Prior to this, she held account and business development roles at Information Resources Inc (IRI), and worked client side at Yell UK, Due Sigma and Unilever.

Will Boyd joins with extensive knowledge of the high street and online retail sector, having worked for GfK Retail & Technology in account management roles for the past six years.

Bruce Wakeling worked most recently in a business development role at YouGov, before which he worked for Lorien Research.

Former Harris Interactive Business Development Manager Guy Jeffries joins with broad experience across the market research, PR and marketing sectors. Earlier in his career, he worked at Ciao Surveys selling online research solutions to end clients and research agencies, and at Universum across the financial, FMCG and technology sectors.

'It's been extremely challenging to find passionate and enthusiastic people with a blend of both research and business development skills,' states Sales Director and Deputy MD, Hashim Mitchla. 'To have such great caliber people joining Holden Pearmain is a real asset and really helps support our plans for next year.'

Founded by former TNS Deputy MD Holden and FMCG Researcher David Pearmain in 2002, the firm is online at www.holdenpearmain.com .