Fourteen New Hires and Nine Promotions at Researchbods

UK-based customer insights and communities platform developer Researchbods has appointed fourteen new team members since the beginning of April, including Chris Manko as Head of Engineering. The firm has also made nine internal promotions.

The Leeds-based company offers insight communities and global data collection to deliver real-time consumer insights. In 2019, it joined with Bonamy Finch and start-up LiFE to create a new group called STRAT7, promising to help businesses and brands extract new customer insights and create data-driven strategies. Manko, who joins from marketing automation company Force24, will now lead a team of ten in the development of Researchbods' proprietary insight community platform, ex-plor.

The other new hires are:

• Andrew Berry, Solutions Architect, Technology Team
• Mohamed Moalin, Full Stack Developer, Technology Team
• Aiden Lythgoe, UX Designer, Technology Team
• Katie Francis, Associate Insight Director, Insight Team
• Ellen Brain, Insight Executive, Insight Team
• Rumyana Vecheva, Junior Project Manager, Project Team
• Hailey Jones, Trainee Project Manager, Project Team
• Isabelle Firth, Trainee Project Manager, Project Team
• Fazan Hussain, Junior Operations Executive, Project Team
• Jordan Velikov, Junior Data Processor, Data Team
• Martin Georgiev, Junior Scripter, Data Team
• Vivien Bairstow, Finance Administrator, Support Team
• Emmanuel Opara, IT Support Analyst, Support Team.

Those promoted include Peter Strachan to Insight Director, Tom Aylett to Senior Client Manager and Katie Cowan to Senior Community Manager. MD Jonathan Clough comments: 'As we continue to grow, we're focused on attracting the best talent in the industry to go above and beyond for our clients. We want to create an environment where everyone's input is valued, respected and rewarded, and have invested a significant amount into our new people function, led by Susan Hargadon as Head of People, to support this'.

Web site: www.researchbods.com .