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CUSTOM RESEARCH DIVISION ZIMENT ANNOUNCES PROMOTION OF             JOHN TAPPER TO BECOME ITS CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

NEW YORK, December 7, 2006 - Ziment Custom, the primary research division of The Ziment Group, announced today that John Tapper, Ph.D. has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer of the division. This is in addition to his current title as Chief Methodologist.  Tapper has been with the company for five years in both the Chief Methodologist and Chief Strategy Officer roles. This promotion acknowledges his considerable contributions to Ziment and its success during his tenure.

In his new role Tapper will report directly to Lynnette Cooke, CEO of both the Ziment Custom research division and The Ziment Group as a whole.

"Since John joined us, he has been responsible for such industry ground breaking product launches such as our primary research division's MESSAGEZ approach, SEGZ and TAGZ, TRIALZ and Demand Calibration," said Cooke. "He is a leader both within our company and throughout the industry, and I am confident that he will continue his successes in his new role."

“I am thrilled to have been given this opportunity," said Tapper. "We have grown so much in the past few years and our potential for even greater presence around the globe is unlimited. I'm excited to have this chance to expand my role in our custom research unit."

 

About Ziment and The Ziment Group:

The Ziment Group consists of Ziment Custom, the strategic, primary marketing research division for healthcare and pharmaceutical industries worldwide (www.ziment.com); WebSurveyResearch which houses the largest dedicated panel of physicians with which to conduct  marketing research through the internet (www.websurveyresearch.com); imap Research, a division dedicated to conducting syndicated market tracking research (www.imapresearch.com); and Consumer Health Sciences, which conducts the National Health and Wellness Survey (nhwsurvey.com), the pre-eminent source of information about the flow of patients into physicians' offices.  

The Ziment Group is the global healthcare research brand for The Kantar Group, the Information and Consultancy Division of WPP, plc.  For more information on the group and its divisions, go to www.zimentgroup.com.



 

 

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