Former Chief Operating Officer at Pollinate, Nathan Saville, has taken up the mantle of General Manager at Bastion's research and data division, Crnrstone.

Based in Sydney, Saville will be tasked with driving innovation and growth for the business, leveraging his 20 years of experience in the market research industry.

Saville's most recent role was at Pollinate, where he was instrumental in designing and implementing processes within the agency, as well as managing key client accounts. Prior to Pollinate, Saville held client management and operations roles at Kantar Consulting, The Leading Edge, and Crnrstone, formerly known as Stable Research.

"I’m thrilled to be joining Crnrstone as the new General Manager. Having worked agency-side for the better part of my 20-year market research career, helping clients and growing and developing teams is what I love to do, every day," said Saville. "In my new role I’ll be leading an incredible team, who together will deliver an exceptional customer service experience along with high-quality, real people, driving impactful decisions for our clients."

Group CEO of Bastion, Jack Watts, said it was terrific to have someone of Saville's calibre come full circle back Crnrstone to lead the business as General Manager.

"Crnrstone has been a bedrock of the research community for almost 20 years, and with Nathan’s leadership and an engaged panel of over 100,000 Australian’s, I can’t wait to see where Nathan takes the business over the next few years’".