InnovateMR Hires Client Dev Execs and Programmer

Online sampling technology firm InnovateMR has appointed Chris Kosar as Director, Client Development; Veeraj Keshwala as Manager, Client Development; and Kristen Vance as Senior Programmer.

Calabasas, California-based Innovate was launched in 2014 by uSamp founders Matt Dusig and Gregg Lavin together with their former colleague George Llorens. In January, the firm received an undisclosed amount of funding, which is helping to support its growth strategy, and to pursue strategic acquisitions.

Kosar joins from personalized commerce platform Drop, where he was a Senior Account Director, before which he held the title of Director of Business Development at qual tech platform HARK Connect and at MR sector events organizer and publishing company GreenBook; he also worked as Director of Sales at the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF). Keshwala joins from Dynata (previously Research Now SSI), where he latterly served as Business Development Manager, having joined in 2013 as a Sales Consultant. Vance has more than twelve years' survey programming experience, most recently leading programming teams at Luc Research.

In their new roles, Kosar and Keshwala will support the team's client development initiatives, while Vance will help expand its programming and hosting offerings.

Web site: www.innovatemr.com .