Verve Officially Opens in Ancoats with Team of Ten

London-based community panels specialist Verve has opened its Manchester hub with an initial team of ten, led by former InSites Consulting / Join the Dots exec Kelly McKnight, who joined in January as Executive Director.

Launched in 2008, Verve is headquartered in London, with additional offices in Chicago, Romania, and now Ancoats, in Manchester, UK. McKnight will lead the new team, after previously serving as AD, Truth Central at McCann Worldgroup; Head of Culture + Trends at Insites Consulting, and previously holding the same title at Join the Dots.

She will be supported by five former InSites Consulting execs - semiotician Kim Howard, and culture and trends specialist Peter Latham, who joined earlier this year; Ashleigh Waterhouse, who has just joined as Research Manager; Ben McIntyre, as Research Manager; and Cherry Huang, as Network & Research Executive. In addition, Verve Director Graham Brown has relocated from London to Manchester; and graduates Charlie Lancaster, Emily Tutton, and Laura Ryan have also joined the new team.

Commenting on the news, founder and CEO Andrew Cooper, who has recently relocated to the north of England, said: 'Our Manchester base offers a little bit of everything that makes Verve so exciting right now - we've got researchers at all different stages of their career, we've got those with different research specialisms and we have others coming in to develop new products and propositions to bring to the market in 2022. It's also a fun and vibrant place for hybrid working - so, really, represents absolutely everything we want the business to be this year.'

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