Brian Tonry is the new chief marketing officer at Emporis, the largest provider of global building data worldwide.

Tonry will head up marketing and product development activities and will also provide senior-level support to the Sales division, in particular with regard to strategic partner and business development activities.

Before coming to Emporis, Tonry was vice president at McGraw-Hill Construction, with overall responsibility for the company's analytics and custom market research sales organisation, as well as heading up international business development.