Phoenix Hires Grant to Lead in Europe

US research agency Phoenix Marketing International (PMI) has appointed former MaritzCX exec Andrew Grant as President of its European Operations.

Founded in 1999 by Chairman and CEO Allen DeCotiis and President Martha Rea, PMI now has offices in New York, New Jersey, Boston, Philadelphia, Raleigh/Durham, Detroit, Shanghai and London. Grant (pictured) joins the latter operation after five years at customer experience software and services provider MartizCX, where as VP Automotive he had global and regional responsibility for several major automotive programmes. Before this, he held leadership roles at Cambridge Market Research and worked with automotive clients at Synovate, and earlier he spent twelve years in research roles at Ford and five years at Jaguar Cars. He began his career at Kantar Millward Brown.

In his new role, Grant will head PMI's international sales and operations with clients in the auto and pharma space. Commenting on the appointment, DeCotiis said: 'Researchers of Andrew's caliber are rare, and adding one of the top industry talents will help continue our global growth, particularly in healthcare and automotive segments'.

Web site: www.phoenixmi.com .