NIQ announced on July 20, 2026 that Irina Stoian has joined the company as Chief AI Commercial Officer, a newly created role whose mandate is to convert NIQ's AI product portfolio into measurable commercial outcomes for clients.
Stoian comes from Palantir Technologies, where she spent nearly six years in roles spanning AI strategy, commercial operations, go-to-market execution, and enterprise transformation, most recently as Commercial AI Lead. Before Palantir, she held analytics and commercialization roles at Barclays.
"AI is not a feature we are adding to NIQ; it is core to our product strategy," said Jim Peck, CEO of NIQ. "Irina brings exactly the combination of commercial credibility and AI fluency we need to make that strategy land with clients."
