Kantar Hires Prince for Product Chief Role

In London, Kantar has hired former Neustar exec Ted Prince for a newly created role, Chief Product Officer, responsible for defining and delivering new offerings and real-time platforms.

Prince (pictured) will join on 1st April after nearly nine years at consumer intelligence provider Neustar. Here he worked most recently as President, Analytics Solutions, managing the company's largest P&L and overseeing product development, operations, business development and product marketing. Prior to this he was COO, Global Media at National Geographic; and President of the firm's for-profit arm National Geographic Ventures; and earlier he was SVP, Strategy and Business Development at AOL.

In his new position, Prince will report to CEO Alexis Nasard, who comments: 'Ted's appointment is a key step in delivering on our new vision as the world's leading brandtech company; at the intersection of brand building and technology, enabling our clients to deliver growth in a fast-changing environment. Ted has a proven track record in integrating new technologies, data and analytics to build new business models and products that drive a sustainable competitive advantage for Kantar and our clients'.

Web site: www.kantar.com .