Rapid Growth for Research Now

UK-based online specialist Research Now has announced senior appointments for its London team, with Chris Dubreuil joining as Client Development Director and Paul Botje as COO. Also arriving are twelve staff for the client development, panel analytics and delivery teams.

Dubreuil joins from Synovate London where he was Research Director and Head of Online Research, with particular experience in maximising the potential of online fieldwork. He will lead development of the firm's multi-country tracking capabilities.

Botje will take global responsibility for service delivery operations. He was previously Operations Director at database marketing specialists Miller Starr (part of MRM Worldwide), and has over 20 years operations management experience gained with companies including Toyota, Felix Schoeller and Sappi Europe.

Andrew Cooper, Co-founder and Managing Director comments: 'Appointing Chris as our 8th Client Development Director in London alone illustrates our commitment to providing MR agency clients with genuine expertise and advice – at Research Now we don't just enable clients to 'go' online, rather we have the experts who can proactively help and advise our clients to really excel online.' Co-founder and Chief Executive Chris Havemann says Botje's appointment will help 'to ensure that we continue to keep quality, flexibility and client service at the heart of our company philosophy.'

Other appointments to the client development team include Client Development Managers Viktor Bergh (previously at Lightspeed Research), Nicky Robertson (IMS and Ciao), Amber Murphy (Blue Care Medical), and Lindsay McLaughlin (previously a researcher at UCL).

Meanwhile the company's panel analytics and delivery teams have also added a number of new faces. Anna Glaeve (previously at NOP and Entertainment Media Research) joins as Product Development Manager, Prima Chand (Lightspeed Research) as Project Manager, Edward Ross (ID Factor) as Project Manager, Ea Bruun Gram (Maritz) as Project Executive, Zeeshan Abbas as Project Executive, Stephen Burgess as Online and Multimedia Production Executive, Divesh Mirani as Online Production Executive and Simon Edwards as Systems and Network Administrator.

Research Now owns the 'Valued Opinions' family of panels across 18 European countries, and has offices in London, Paris, and two locations in each of Germany, the US and Australia. An independent public company quoted on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange, it is online at www.researchnow.co.uk .

All articles 2006-23 written and edited by Mel Crowther and/or Nick Thomas, 2024- by Nick Thomas, unless otherwise stated.

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