Clare McHatton has joined as business development director from global sample provider SSI while Meb Gafur becomes On Device Research’s operations director, having previously been operations and innovations director at Mesh Planning.

Meanwhile, Alexandra Travlos has been hired as client service analyst, having worked for three years at Proteus carrying out project and fieldwork management.

Commenting on the need for the hires, On Device Research co-founder Alistair Hill (pictured) said: “We are starting to see considerable need for mobile research panels and have doubled the business year-on-year.”