Toluna Opens in Melbourne, Hires in India

Online community and survey tech provider Toluna has opened an office in Melbourne, where it is relocating Roopam Bahl as a local contact for the company's presence in Australia.

Toluna expanded into the Asia Pacific region a decade ago, with the opening of an office in Sydney, Australia. Bahl, currently the firm's Director of Business Development in India, will relocate to the new Melbourne office after nearly three years with the company. She previously held senior roles at Ipsos, Nielsen, Research Endeavors and TNS in Dubai. As a result of Bahl's move, Himanshu Verma has joined the firm as Director of India domestic business. Most recently, Verma was Head of Kantar TNS in Thailand, before which he worked for Synovate, Nielsen, Kantar Millward Brown and Kantar IMRB.

Ludovic Milet, MD, Asia Pacific, comments: 'Toluna has seen tremendous business growth across APAC over the last five years, in every country we have offices. We thought it was time to strengthen both our Australian and Indian businesses and these nominations are designed to answer the rapid adoption of Toluna's research automation services delivered through our Insights on demand platform'.

Web site: www.toluna.com .