Verve Appoints for Leeds Office, Promotes Twelve

UK-based online communities specialist Verve has announced twelve promotions, and the appointment of Jodie Chamberlain as Research Manager in its recently-opened northern office. Existing staff Warren Lister, Olly Robinson and Ana Garcia all become Director / RDs.

Chamberlain joins Verve North, launch in October last year, from fellow Leeds agency Trinity McQueen, and brings account management and quant and qual experience in FMCG, retail, finance and B2B.

Lister joined as an AD, Qualitative Research in 2014 after spells at PHD Worldwide, consumer behaviour specialist Flavour, Rosenblatt Market Research and Synovate. His new role is Research Director, Qualitative. Robinson worked on international research programmes for technology, telecoms and media clients at GfK and Ipsos before joining Verve in 2014, and now takes the title of Research Director.

Former Harris Interactive and Research Now exec Garcia first joined the company in 2010 as Marketing and Community Manager, left a year later to join the Red Flag Group and returned as Associate Director of Team in September 2013, with a remit to bring staff recruitment in-house. She now becomes Director, Marketing & Team.

Also promoted are Vasiliki Georgiou (to Research Manager, Qualitative); Lucy Dixon (Research Manager, Qualitative); Helen Fricker (Research Manager); Diana Harvey and Chermayne Hiew (Community Managers); Bianca Stan (Senior Executive, Data Processing); Roxana Postolachi (Iasi Team Leader - Romanian office); Laurence Taylor (Design Manager); and Eva Bodok (Web Designer).

Web site: www.addverve.com .