FreshMinds Boosts Senior London Team

In the UK, insight and innovation consultancy FreshMinds has appointed Jason de Klerk as Head of Quantitative Research, Maeve O'Dwyer as a Senior Consultant, and James Wallis as a Consultant. The firm has also hired a number of Associates.

Prior to FreshMinds, de Klerk worked for TNS for more than eleven years, most recently as Head of Innovation and Product Development at TNS South Africa, where he specialised in work with FMCG and financial services clients.

O'Dwyer previously worked at research community and survey technology specialist Vision Critical, rising to Associate Client Services Director. Earlier, she worked for TNS in a quantitative role in the Consumer Department. Wallis joins after seven years at TNS, most recently as the firm's UK Innovation and NPD lead.

Commenting on the new appointments, CEO Catherine Crump said: 'I'm delighted to be welcoming Jason, Maeve and James to the business to support our growth plans for 2016 and beyond. It's fantastic to be bringing in such a great group of people to support our clients across the product and service development cycle'.

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