M/A/R/C expands team with six new hires

The company has appointed Michelle Sugent, Sarah Eaton and Sara Cerra as directors in its insights and strategies team.

Sugent (pictured) joins M/A/R/C from Kynetec, where she spent six years as research manager. She has also held positions at Forward Research and Ipsos during her career.

Eaton’s background includes supply-side and client-side roles at companies including Market Diagnostics International, Brinker and JCPenney. She was previously a consultant at IVD Data Group.

Cerra joins the business after 11 years at Dynata, where she was most recently research manager, advanced analytics.

M/A/R/C has also appointed Matt Ruppe as client support director. Ruppe also joins the company from Dynata, where he was client relationship manager.

Sherry Mohanty has joined as client support manager, leading project workflow. She has previously worked at Toluna and Sermo.

Additionally, on the survey programming side, the company has appointed Tyler Konan as director of development.

Merrill Dubrow, chief executive, M/A/R/C, said: “We’re excited to continue growing our team with such talented industry experts.”