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GMI Appointments and Upgrade
Software and panels firm GMI has promoted two senior execs at its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Sydney, in addition to making two senior appointments in Seattle and a raft of others worldwide. It has also upgraded its Research Analyzer tables tool, with enhanced weighting and data manipulation features.
Tatt Chen, former MD, Client Services and Operations, becomes VP, Asia-Pacific, responsible for GMI's regional profit and loss account. Benny Huang, former Marketing Director based at GMI in Shanghai, China, is promoted to MD, Marketing, Asia-Pacific, now based at the company's Sydney office.
Chen says the firm has built 'very powerful partnerships with some of the largest market research firms in the region' in a period of just over a year.
Asia-Pacific currently accounts for just 14% ($3.3 billion) of the global market research industry, according to ESOMAR, but its growth and potential are well known. 'With a year-on-year growth estimated at 8.9%, APAC will continue to outpace all other regions' says Huang, 'offering huge potential for our market research software, respondent panels reaching six million consumers worldwide, and service bureau.'
In Seattle, Lisa Ricci joins the company as Vice President, Panel Operations, with more than 20 years of operations management experience in technology and related service industries. She joins from Cascade Consulting Group, and worked previously at software development firm Wall Data. Joelle Nole is appointed as MD, Program Management, bringing 11 years' experience in the technology, entertainment, and non-profit sectors, most recently as IT Manager, Project Services at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where she spent six years. She worked previously for Chase Bobko.
Other new arrivals in the past month are:- Shelly Anton, Purchasing Agent - Seattle, USA
- Jun Clarke, Project Fulfillment Manager - Sydney, Australia
- Jon Currie, Director, Sales - Los Angeles, USA
- Julie Hübschmann, Marketing Assistant - Munich, Germany
- Steven Kennedy, Sales Director - Denver, USA
- Christine McComb, Director of Accounting - USA
- Courtney Mills, Sales Assistant - Los Angeles, USA
- Elena Mitina, Marketing Manager - Moscow, Russia
- Maaike Oerlemans, Marketing Assistant - 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
- Joseph Quinto, Associate Director, Business Analysis - Seattle, USA
- Sandy Saco, Sales Director - San Francisco, USA
- Samson Tam, Human Resources Director, Asia-Pacific - Sydney, Australia
- Betsy Yalcin, Human Resources Director - Seattle, USA
Research Analyzer is a tool for the production of cross-tabs and the publishing of reports in PowerPoint, Excel or as PDFs. New features with today's release include enhanced weighting wizards for creating weight sets from complex combinations of variables; scaling and summary tables, a simple row and column swap feature and new easy-to-read table formats.
GMI's home page is at www.gmi-mr.com .
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