MORI has already secured the services of John Searle, its new group finance director and main board director, who has joined from Eurobell. He was previously employed in finance at Nationwide Refrigerator Services and Akzo Nobel.

Elsie Akinsanya has also been appointed as the human resources director. In her new capacity, she will supersede the current director, Anna Treseder. The latter will be assuming a new strategic role alongside MORI’s chief executive, Brian Gosschalk and managing director, Mike Everett.

Thirdly, Nicky Louth-Davies will join later this month as the agency’s client services director. She previously held this role at media evaluation agency Mediatrack, and is also a former Head of Corporate Communications and Communications Planning at Railtrack.

Lastly, Carole Lehman joins as the new head of transport research. Carole’s transport experience had been gained at Research International (as a director responsible for Transport research), MVA Ltd, the Automobile Association and the Transport and Road Research Laboratory.