The latest in a series of management changes, the two will now take over responsibilities from Will Galgey, recently appointed the Insights division’s chief operating officer. They will share running day to day operations, as well as growth and transformation, of Kantar TNS and Kantar Millward Brown brands across the UK and Ireland.

Cashman (pictured, left)was previously UK managing director for Kantar TNS while Bhattachary (pictured, right) was chief client officer, Kantar Insights UK.

These appointments follow recent announcements of Mark Inskip to lead Kantar Media in the UK and Craig Watkins as chief executive of Kantar Public UK.

Bart Michels, Kantar UK country leader said: “Over the past weeks we have appointed a number of new leaders across our portfolio of UK brands. All these appointments reflect one common strategy of increasing customer impact through continuous innovation and delivering world-class human understanding research and consultancy.”