Verve Brings Back Garcia for Recruitment Drive

Ana Garcia has returned to London-based research panel and online community specialist Verve as Associate Director of Team, with a remit to bring staff recruitment in-house. The firm has also hired five new employees.

Verve was launched in 2008 by Andrew Cooper, Mike Hall and Jon Gumbrell, the founders respectively of Research Now, Hall & Partners and the iD Factor.

Garcia most recently served as Marketing Manager EMEA for corporate governance and compliance firm The Red Flag Group, prior to which she spent a year at Verve as Marketing / Community Manager. Earlier, she was Marketing and Senior Project Manager at online fieldwork specialist Research Now, and worked as a Client Services Executive at Harris Interactive.

In her new role, she will help Verve source 'the best talent' to add to its existing internationally recruited team of researchers and operations staff.

The appointment follows Verve's recruitment of former Millward Brown exec Aimee Bettridge as Research Manager; Zara Bryson, who previously worked at Ipsos, as Senior Research Executive; Megan Wardley and Vivi Markatopoulou as Community Project Managers, and Eugen Tuchendria as a Scripter.

CEO Andrew Cooper comments: 'Bringing recruitment in-house is a great way to ensure that as a fast growing business we are never short of the skills in the team that our clients require. We are now able to actively head-hunt ambitious and capable people at all levels to come and help us make Verve a truly exciting business.'

Web site: www.addverve.com .