Jacob becomes Face Asia’s head of Singapore having joined from Insight Asia Research Group where she was regional qualitative director and will service the agency’s key clients in Singapore alongside Face Asia MD Andrew Ho and global commercial director at the segment Daniel Tompsett.

Meanwhile, Murphy joins the Face advisory board. Previously CEO of full service agency Rockhopper Research and start-up BrandScan 360, Murphy is editor-in-chief of the GreenBook blog.

Face CEO and founding partner Andrew Needham said: “We are very excited to see how quickly Face is cementing its reputation and growth on the American and Asian markets, attracting some of the best and most successful talent keen to join our teams and help us deliver more socially intelligent research by providing a holistic view of the customer.”