What Happened?
New York, NY- based GfK has Appointed Jacqueline Richardson as Executive Vice President of Human Resources
About the Company
The GfK Group, established in 1934 as Gesellschaft für Konsumforschung is Germany`s largest market research institute, and the fourth largest market research organisation in the world, after Nielsen Company, Kantar Group and Ipsos.
About the Person
Jacqueline Richardson is the Regional Director and Executive Vice President of Human Resources in North America at GfK. Richardson will lead GfK’s strategic workforce development, talent management, employee relations, training, organizational design and development, and diversity and recruitment efforts in the US and Canada. She will be based in the company’s North American Headquarters in New York City. Richardson most recently served as Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources for Torus Insurance, where she developed a global human resources strategy that helped the company grow to offices in 13 countries. Prior to Torus, Richardson was Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Synovate (now part of IPSOS), where she was responsible for North and Latin America, as well as the company’s global CE business. She has also worked at CNA Insurance and RBC Mortgage. Richardson graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Swarthmore College and also holds a Master’s degree in Education, concentrating on counseling and consulting psychology, from Harvard University.
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