CINCINNATI, Ohio – Diane Surette, formerly of Lewiston, has been promoted to executive vice president/head of client services for Burke Inc. of Cincinnati, Ohio, a full service marketing research and decision support company.

Surette grew up in Lewiston, the daughter of Lionel and Marguerite Langlois, and is a graduate of Lewiston High School.

She joined Burke in 1996, developing a number of new services and pursuing a number of new business opportunities for the company. She became a senior member of Burke’s management group in 2004 and moved from Boston to Cincinnati as senior vice president, client services management in 2006.

Her background includes work as a certified public accountant with Arthur Andersen, overseeing the customer satisfaction program at Millipore Corporation, and running a successful consulting practice at Organizational Effectiveness Consultants.