Blackbox Hires Qual Research Head

In Singapore, consumer and B2B specialist Blackbox Research has appointed Jerry Clode as Regional Qualitative Insights Director.

Clode joins from Flamingo International APAC, where he led the agency's China business. Prior to this, he worked at Shanghai-based market research agency Anovax, helping clients understand consumers and brand 'intimacy' in the areas of technology adoption, youth and lifestyle change.

Before entering the market research industry, Clode was an academic based at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, where he specialised in Asian youth, popular culture and Chinese media reform.

Blackbox Research founder David Black comments: 'This appointment helps reinforce our aim to become the best digital research agency in Asia.'

The firm was founded in 2001 to offer qual and quant consumer and business research, web site usability and communications strategy development across the entire Asia Pacific region including Australia, Russia, China, India and Japan.

Web site: www.blackbox.com.sg .