Treloar joins the company as business development director on the agency sales team. She has 17 years’ experience in sales and marketing manager roles and was previously head of new business at Ultimate Creative Communications.

Gallagher has been appointed as business development director on the company’s enterprise and market research sales team. He was most recently chief innovation officer at Data Liberation, and prior to that held various client service and mobile research roles at Ipsos Mori.

Rob Berger, managing director, Maru/Blue, said: “Our UK expansion has seen excellent momentum and is only going to benefit more with the addition of these two strong individuals.

“Claire is an excellent communicator and leader with an emphasis on creating an environment of forward-thinking ideas driven by business needs, sales targets and innovative marketing solutions, and Simon will be instrumental to the growth of the enterprise and MR business in the UK.”