Pulse Hires in Asia as NYC Office Opens

Asian-based outsourcing and online panel firm the Pulse Group has officially opened the doors to its New York City office with industry veteran John Saez at the helm, while in Kuala Lumpur the firm has made an additional seven senior hires.

Saez's appointment was announced in June (www.mrweb.com/drno/news6925.htm ), when the firm said that its new US office would act primarily as a client development hub, closing the physical and time-zone differences to its Asian operations.

In Asia, the company has added to its client development and operations teams with the appointments of former Nielsen Director, Alvin Chia as Director of Client Development, and Andrew Yeoh and Chan Choy Ping from TNS and Synovate respectively, who take up their new posts as Associate Directors.

Other appointments include:

• Melanie Mak - Client Development Executive
• Nitin Gulati - CATI Manager
• Farhath Unnisa - Project Manager
• Jessica Seth - Panel Manager.

The firm says that this recruitment drive is in direct response to strong projected growth in the second half of 2007, and also reinforces its plans to aggressively grow the company's position in the market intelligence industry.

Commenting on the latest developments, CEO Bob Chua said: 'We're at an extremely exciting stage of organic hyper-growth and our continued commitment towards hiring the best talent in the industry amplifies our ambition to be the leading player in the Research Process Outsourcing (RPO) space.'

In February, the company received investment from venture capital funding firm JAIC, which Chua said would allow Pulse to 'blaze a growth-path in international expansion, panel growth, and strategic acquisitions' (www.mrweb.com/drno/news6447.htm ). The firm's services include online data collection, data processing, and data analysis. It is online at www.pulse-group.com.