Based in Vancouver, Diane Gawlik joins as director of strategy and development, enterprise sales and Arun Venkataraman as research director; while Magdalena Morello joins as a research director in Toronto.

Gawlik has more than 12 years’ experience in strategy and customer relations roles, most recently at Vins Philippe Dandurand Wines.  

Venkataraman has over 11 years of experience in global quantitative and qualitative research and has spent the past six plus years at YouGov in research manager roles. Morello joins from CBC/Radio-Canada and has over 10 years of experience in the research field designing and executing both quantitative and qualitative research.

Rob Berger, managing director of Maru/Blue, said: “The continued growth and expansion of Maru/Blue, along with the enhanced specialisations on our growing research team, will allow us to continue our upward trajectory and more efficiently bring innovation to the research industry."