Savanta Grows North American Team

Savanta has reported the addition of a dozen new members to its US and Canadian teams in the second quarter, including Chuck Woelfel as VP in Research, Insight and Consulting; Patrick Byck as Director of Operations; and Marc Matthews as Director of Research.

Savanta's offer includes bespoke research, access to 100 million respondents through a proprietary technology platform, and intelligence products including the BrandVue and MarketVue reputation tracking solutions. The company is the data and insights wing of marcoms group Next15.

Woelfel brings more than 28 years' MR experience across financial services, CPG, B2B, healthcare and not-for-profit. He joins from M&T Bank, where he spent the last eight years, latterly as VP, Market Research Director. Byck (pictured) has more than eighteen years' experience including spells at Ipsos, Advantage Group International (8 years) and most recently Hotspex; and Matthews thirty years.

The other new hires are former Ipsos employee Maggie College, as Senior Consultant; Rachel Davis, Lindsay Sayour, Justin Butterman and Courtney Davis as Research Consultants; Dave Kabli as a Senior Project Manager; Christian Galdencio as HR & Business Support Executive; Samantha Ruggiero as a research intern; and Amanda Surgent, who joins as a Project Director following the recent acquisition and integration of MSI International.

Kyle Gollins, the company's SVP, Head of AMER Commercial, comments, '2021 has proven to be a growth year for us at Savanta via the acquisition of MSI International and our great client partners. This growth has allowed us to continue to expand our talented team of researchers, project managers, and professionals... We're excited to welcome so many great individuals into the Savanta team'.

The company is online at www.savanta.com .