• Mary Vonderau has been named senior vice president of sales and strategic partnerships for The Beryl Companies (Dallas). Prior to joining Beryl, Vonderau was vice president of client services for Premier Healthcare Informatics’ western region. She has also served as the provider division vice president for Solucient. Beryl delivers outsourced customer service solutions to the healthcare industry.

• Gregory Richard has been named senior vice president of sales and marketing for Synarc (San Francisco). Richard previously was president of Accumin Diagnostics. Synarc provides clinical trial services such as centralized imaging, study participant recruitment and biochemical marker services to the pharmaceutical industry.