exëvo hires Hal Kuraishe
exëvo hires senior Business Development Manager from Harris Interactive
Sets stage for major global expansion.
NEW YORK, 6th January, 2008 - Global Market Research & Outsourcing (MRO) firm, exëvo, has added a key executive member to their global talent pool. Today, the Company announced the recruitment of Hal Kuraishe as Director for Business Development. Hal has over 11 years experience within the marketing industry. He is based in exëvo’s London office and will be responsible for new client activity across Europe and managing relationships with the existing exëvo client base.
Having been a senior member of the business development team at Harris Interactive (Europe) for over six years and also at Mintel International for five years. He possesses extensive experience in providing a variety of research solutions including customer satisfaction, segmentation and conjoint studies to companies as diverse as HP, AOL, Gartner, Procter & Gamble and Unilever.
"Hal brings tremendous experience and maturity to exëvo. We are thrilled to have him on our team and are confident that he will serve as a catalyst for our aggressive growth plans," said Alok Tayal, CEO of exëvo. Hal responded enthusiastically and added "I am impressed by exëvo's vision and energy. exëvo has achieved a lot in a very short period of time, and I am looking forward to being part of an organization that is poised to be a leader in the Knowledge Process Outsourcing industry."
exëvo has witnessed strong growth and unprecedented performance since its inception, and continues to invest aggressively in global expansion.
About exëvo
exëvo is a leading Market Research & Outsourcing firm servicing a wide range of clients across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific by providing end-to-end research services. We support Global Top 50 Research Consulting agencies by conducting worldwide research studies on their behalf based on our own proprietary methods. We are a leading marketing services company specializing in conducting research studies for IT, Financial, Healthcare, Retail, Telecommunications, and Automobile verticals in 90 countries and 17 different languages.
exëvo was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in New York (US), with offices in London (UK), Chicago (US), Buenos Aires (Argentina), New Delhi (India), Beijing (China) and Singapore. The Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Copal Partners. Copal Partners is a leading provider of customized proprietary research and consulting services to the financial and corporate sectors.
exëvo is one of the first global Market Research firms based in Asia-Pacific region to achieve ISO 20252:2006, the international quality standard for Market, Opinion and Global Research Services. As a result, it is the only MRO to have been awarded all three quality certifications – ISO 20252:2006, ISO 27001: 2005 and ISO 9001:2000.