Outdoor media owner JCDecaux Australia has hired ESSIE WAKE to fill the newly created role of head of marketing, with responsibility for research and communication strategies. She was previously strategy director at Initiative.

Research Now has added five new members of staff to its office in Hamburg. Joining the firm are client development executives POLINA INSELMANN, VESSELINA NIKOLOVA, SARAH OSSWALD and SABRINA ZIMMERMAN. Also onboard is project executive STEFAN MAHLSTEDT, who was previously at TrendResearch and Interrogare.

JAMES ROCK has been appointed business development manager for Asia Pacific at E-Tabs, a developer of report automation software. He previously worked for research firms Nielsen and Tebbutt Research, as well as spells with media companies Sky Television Network and Fairfax Media Network.

US research agency CMI has hired YVONNE GOLDBERG as senior project manager and AMANDA SCHIENER as associate project manager. Goldberg was previously senior research manager at The Marketing Workshop and Goldberg was an analyst at the Walt Disney Company. The firm has also appointed MICHAEL McENEREY and ANNA REESE as associate project managers.

MARK GREATREX has been appointed senior vice president and chief marketing officer at US cable TV and broadband provider Cox Communications. He was previously SVP of global still beverages at Coca-Cola.

CHRISTIAN WOLFE has been named VP of business intelligence strategy at US accounting and audit information firm CCH. He was previously senior managing director at real estate firm Cushman & Wake.

US healthcare data collection firm WorldOne has appointed DAVID DEUTSCH as SVP of US qualitative services. Over the course of his career he has held positions with the US Department of Health and Human Services, the NHS in the UK and pharma firms Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Searle and Baxter.