Hansa Hires Kantar's Ranade as EVP and Quant Head

In India, consumer insights provider Hansa Research has appointed former Kantar exec Sandeep Ranade as Executive Vice President and Quantitative Head.

Hansa Research provides packaged and custom offerings for clients across a wide range of sectors, including the Cheetah in-house mobile panel. Last year, it opened an office in Bangladesh, adding to its operations in India, Germany and the USA (the latter via a stake in GCR, formerly Gartner Custom Research); as well as Singapore where it launched in early 2020.

Ranade (pictured) joins after a decade at Kantar, where he was most recently Executive Director, Co-lead West (Quantitative) and Key Account Director, Insights. Prior to this he spent nearly seven years at Kantar Millward Brown, latterly as Deputy MD - Mumbai and Regional Account Lead. Earlier, Ranade worked for Ipsos, Nielsen and IMRB, and he spent a short time client-side as Consumer Insight and Investment Manager at Heinz India.

Commenting on the appointment, CEO Praveen Nijhara said: 'We are pleased to welcome Sandeep to our organization. His vast experience will further help advance our research expertise and deliver more valuable insights to our clients. I'm confident he will play an important role in Hansa's growth in the coming years'.

The company, which is party of the R K SWAMY | HANSA Group of marketing communications and services companies, is online at www.hansaresearch.com .