BritainThinks Hires Four in London

London-based qual-led insight and strategy specialist BritainThinks has appointed four new members of staff, including former Decidedly exec Drew Still as Associate Director.

Launched in 2010 by Opinion Leader co-founders Deborah Mattinson and Viki Cooke and their former colleague Ben Shimshon, employee-owned BritainThinks offers strategic advice for political, corporate and not-for-profit clients. Its WorldThinks international division has a specific focus on reputation research.

Still joins from insight and innovation specialist Decidedly, where he led the Education team. He was previously Strategic Research Manager at professional membership organisation ICAEW, an AD in the Public Services division at Future Thinking, and Research Manager at FDS International. He began his career as an RE at mmr Research.

BritainThinks has also hired former Behavioural Architects Strategic Consultant Sonal Malkan as Senior Research Executive; while Ellie Wroe Wright, who previously gained work experience at BritainThinks and The Behavioural Architects, joins as Research Executive. In addition, part-qualified accountant Feyisanmi Adeshina joins as Accounts Executive, after serving as an Accounting Assistant at financial services firm Neyber.

Commenting on the expansion, Cooke said: 'We are thrilled to have Drew, Sonal, Ellie and Feyisanmi on board, and look forward to working with all four of them as part of our growing team'.

Web site: www.britainthinks.com .