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22nd Oct 2010

Following the promotion of Simon Bolus from Research Manager to Research Director, replacing Tony Wearn (as reported in the March Bulletin) new staff have been recruited to the research function at BARB.

Joe Lewis joined BARB from GfK NOP Media as Research Manager in June. Previous to that he was Research Manager at AGB Nielsen Media Research. Joe has specialist skills in audience measurement, reporting and analysis and will play an important role in BARB's dialogue with its stakeholders. Sarah Espino joined BARB from AGB Nielsen Media Research as Research Coordinator in April.

The BARB Office October 2010

Chief Executive

Bjarne Thelin

Finance Director

Nigel McLachlan

Accounts Administrator

Geoff Snell

PA to Chief Executive and Finance Director

Lynne O'Neill

Research Director

Simon Bolus

Research Manager

Joe Lewis

Research Coordinator

Sarah Espino

Commercial Director

Suzanne Wilkinson

Client Relations Coordinator

Sarah Mowbray

Nigel Walmsley serves as Chairman of BARB in a non-executive capacity.

BARB said a fond farewell to Tony Twyman at a lunch in September to mark his retirement at the end of the year, after over fifty years working in television audience research. His contribution to BARB as Consultant Technical Director has been invaluable and we wish him a long and fulfilling retirement.