As Talkwalker builds upon its social media monitoring roots, it believes these are vital hires as they ramp up their efforts to bring consumer intelligence to more marketing, communications, and insights professionals across the UK.

Bobby Taylor, previously sales director at Oracle, joins as Talkwalker’s managing director UKI. Daniel Viner, previously senior sales manager at Oracle, joins Talkwalker as UK sales manager. Marina Ghilchik joins as SDR manager (UK), formerly SDR manager at Virtuoso. Jack Richards joins as marketing manager (UK & Nordics), previously global marketing manager at CARMA.

Talkwalker now has over 650 staff across 10 international offices, and is recognized by Forrester as a leader in consumer intelligence.