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Chinese Milestone and North American Hires for GMI
US-based panels and software firm GMI has passed another busy month, with the opening of a Netherlands office, seven appointments including an MD, Business Development, and the news that its Chinese panel now includes roughly 1 in every 1,000 of the population.
GMI (Global Market Insite) says its panel counts in China are 'skyrocketing' with more than 120,000 new panellists recruited in the last month alone – the current total is around 1.3m and rising. The firm also offers speciality sample in China and other countries for B2B, IT, youth and medical markets.
The new Dutch office, in Hertogenbosch, was opened officially on September 21st. MD for Northern Europe Leon de Koning and his team welcomed 30 attendees with coffee and Bossche Bol (described as 'a regional treat'); snipped a ribbon and drank a Champagne toast.
Peter Buck has joined the company as Managing Director, Business Development based in Seattle, USA. He joins from Premera Blue Cross where he served as Assistant General Counsel since 2002. He worked previously as COO / General Counsel for EventPoint and Senior Corporate Counsel for Go2Net/InfoSpace.
Other new arrivals are Keith Leeman, as Business Development Associate, B2B, based in Seattle; Ryan Brynteson as a survey Programmer and Ryan Elbing as a Project Operations Manager based in Minneapolis, USA; David Morgan as an AD, Account Management based in Chicago; and two in the Vancouver, Canada office - Amelia De Vera as a Senior Technical Writer and Derk Jansen as a Software Integration & Risk Expert.
GMI is on the web at www.gmi-mr.com .
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