Kantar Health Names Jim Needell as UK MD

Kantar Health has appointed Jim Needell as Managing Director for the UK. He joins from sister company Worldpanel, where he was most recently Commercial Director, UK and Ireland.

Before joining Worldpanel in 2002 he worked for GfK in various client-facing roles in the UK and Australia. Earlier he spent a number of years at GlaxoSmithKline in sales and marketing functions.

Werner Guminski, the firm's CEO for Global Practices and Region Europe, comments: 'Jim's strong commercial and business development background, experience and success in shaping and driving business have prepared him well to help us address the challenges facing the healthcare industry.'

Kantar Health, which was set up by parent WPP to pool the resources of MattsonJack, TNS Healthcare, Consumer Health Sciences and Ziment, is online at www.kantarhealth.com .