Verve Continues to Grow London Team

In the UK, new technology, telecoms and media research provider Verve has expanded its London team with three senior appointments.

Emma Morioka (née Smith) joins from online fieldwork specialists Research Now, where she worked as Group Marketing Director, prior to which, she was Research Director at Synovate Healthcare.ner, Proposition Development, Morioka will be responsible for developing the firm's products and services, focusing on delivering technology. Working alongside Jon Gumbrell, Partner of Technology Progression, she will bring technologies and methodologies from around the globe into the Verve technology platform.

Clare McHatton joins Verve as Associate Account Director, responsible for developing
new and existing clients. For the past five years, she also worked at Research Now; latterly as Client Development Manager. McHatton has a first class honours degree in Psychology from Leeds University.

In addition, Ailean Mills joins as a Consultant for Qualitative Community Engagement, to work with the team to develop the qualitative, engagement and two-way dialogue elements of the firm's online community proposition. Mills' focus is on the impact of the Internet and social networking, bringing expertise from a career working with companies including Nestle, Cadbury, Unilever and the BBC.

Partner and CEO Andrew Cooper commented on the appointments: 'With Emma, Clare and Ailean, we continue to invest in a cross functional team which is built to be the unrivalled specialist in delivering customer advisory panels and online brand communities which really fulfil their potential for clients.'

Verve, which opened last December, partnered last month with US research software firm Vovici to provide fully serviced customer communities and advisory panels for corporate clients in Europe.

Web site: www.haveverve.com .