Kantar Health's Richard Goosey Joins Research Partnership

In the UK, healthcare MR agency the Research Partnership has appointed former Kantar Health exec Richard Goosey as Head of Analytics.

The London-based firm, which also has offices in Philadelphia, San Francisco, New York, Singapore and Lyon, supplies primary qual and quant market research and consulting services to the sector. It also operates RP Therapy Watch, which collects data from an online community of specialist physicians across the globe, allowing clients to monitor their market and that of their competitors in real time.

Goosey (pictured) joins with more than 40 years' experience in marketing science, analytics and methodology. For the past nine, he worked at Kantar Health as Chief Methodologist and Head of Advanced Methods, responsible for marketing sciences, methodology. Before this, he was Head of Commercial Planning & BI at Lundbeck Pharmaceuticals; SVP of Marketing Science and Methodology at Harris Interactive; Global Chief of Measurement Science at Nielsen; and he worked for Research International as MD of RI Technical Systems, with a seat on the Board.

In addition, Goosey is currently a Fellow of the MRS and Royal Statistical Society; Chief Examiner for the MRS Diploma in Analysing & Interpreting Quantitative Data; and he is also an invited member of the EphMRA Forecasting Forum. Commenting on the appointment, Head of Quantitative Research, Karen Swords, said: 'We are delighted to welcome Richard to Research Partnership. He brings with him a wealth of experience and knowledge on advanced analytics, and we look forward to him supporting our Quantitative Centre of Excellence team as well as the wider business.'

Web site: www.researchpartnership.com .