People on the Move
Tuesday, October 3, 2006

  • Renegade Marketing Group has named JENNIFER MARKS as account supervisor; ADAM UHRYNOWSKI as account coordinator; TIM NEVITS as technical support coordinator and PATRICK EMANUEL as account coordinator.


  • TACODA has hired RACHEL GOODMAN and DANIELLE B. SCHNUR as sales development associates and NINA KRYUK joined the company as market manager. Previously, Goodman was an Account Executive with AGENYSACKS; Schnur was with Summit Media Group as a traffic and commercial clearance coordinator; and Kryuk worked for Viewpoint Corporation.


  • The Bravo Group has named FEDERICO DUBERTI as account director, CARLA TESAK as creative director and MONICA GUTIERREZ as experiential director in the New York office.


  • HENRY WILLIAMSON has been promoted to CEO of iMedia International. Co-founder DAVID MACEACHERN will remain chairman, and assume the role of chief architect.


  • LUIS JANUMIS has joined Colby & Partners as interactive producer and project manager.


  • Kaboom productions has named ERIC MCCASLINE as head of production.


  • DAVID WHITE has joined WestWayne as SVP/director of brand planning, a new position, while LISA WHITE was named SVP/account director, overseeing the Buffalo Wild Wings account.


  • MICHAEL BRZOZOWSKI has been named executive vice president, director of CRM at DraftFCB. Brzozowski will be responsible for leading the CRM practice in New York, while developing CRM methodologies and best practices for DraftFCB’s current clients. Most recently, Brzozowski was senior partner, executive director of relationship marketing strategy at OgilvyOne.


  • BooneOakley has hired AMY NOON as account coordinator on the Bloom supermarkets and Family Reading Partnership accounts. Previously, Noon was client services manager at Corbett Accel Healthcare Group on the Bristol-Myers Squibb Abilify account.


  • DAN LEVINE has been promoted to vice president, sales strategy & development for NBC Universal International Television Distribution. He most recently served as director, sales strategy & development. In his new role, Levine will continue to represent the sales strategy group on deal negotiations and will assume responsibility for additional territories.


  • E-magination Group has hired JIMMY HADNOT as its creative director. Most recently, he worked as an art director for Tyson Foods.


  • MARCO ZUECH has been promoted to director of sales, up from senior account executive, at NetShelter. Most recently, Zuech worked for Zenith Optimedia Canada as a broadcast negotiator.


  • MindComet has named PAUL LEWIS as president/CEO. Lewis has served as MindComet’s SVP of sales and marketing for the past five years. TED MURPHY, former president/CEO, will maintain his position as chairman of the board. Other promotions include DOUG WHITE to SVP of sales; SCOTT ALLEN to VP of experience; ROSS YAEGER as VP of operations and TARA LAMBERSON, VP of marketing & strategy.


  • Boelter + Lincoln has promoted VELIA ALVAREZ to public relations senior account supervisor. Alvarez started at Boelter + Lincoln in 2003 as a public relations senior account executive and was promoted to account supervisor in 2005.


  • Movaris has named JOE NICHOLSON as vice president of marketing and promoted CHRIS ABATE to vice president of business development.


  • StrawberryFrog has appointed TORI WINN as interactive executive creative director. She joins StrawberryFrog from AKQA London where she served as creative director.


  • The Thomson Corporation has named ADAM GORDON as vice president of interactive sales and marketing for its Thomson Web division.


  • ALAN MAY has joined the Time Inc. Business & Finance Network as a senior sales development manager.


  • MARK HEALY, articles editor of GQ magazine, has been appointed as Editor-in-Chief of Penthousemagazine. In addition, P.J. LUCAS was named associate publisher of the magazine, joining the publication from Golf World where he served as associate publisher.


  • MARNA GRANTHAM has joined Turner Entertainment Group as vice president of program planning & acquisitions. Grantham joins the company after having served as a consultant to the company on acquiring and licensing content for alternative platforms, including broadband and wireless.


  • Wirestone has named KEVIN GILSDORF as creative services director in the Chicago office.


  • MARIA NOEL VARELA was named project manager at KSV, while JULIE BRANCATO was nameda media planner/buyer and CORTNEY CAHILL was tapped asbrand coach.


  • Fortune Magazine has added TIM ARANGO as a writer and SARAH SLOBIN as senior editor. Arangojoins Fortune from the New York Post where he has served as a media reporter since 2002. Slobin previously worked at The New York Times where she most recently ran the graphics desk for the business section.


  • Saatchi & Saatchi New York has promoted JAN JACOBS and LEO PREMUTICO to executive creative directors. Jacobs and Premutico joined the Agency in May 2005 from Saatchi & Saatchi London. Both previously held the title of creative director.


  • JANE RYAN was named senior vice president, sales and marketing for Nielsen Media Research. She will take on overall leadership of sales and marketing to the entire NSI client base.


  • AARON NICHOLS has been promoted to vice president, regional dealer groups, a newly created position at Jumpstart Automotive Media. He served as director of dealer sales since 2005.


  • CHARLES WALKER III has been named vice president of operations, for Refinery Inc. Previously, Walker was senior vice president of client services at software development firm GHR Systems.


  • DL Ryan Companies has launched Stage, a specialty agency that is dedicated exclusively to experience-based marketing. BOB PETROSINO and SEAN CONCIATORE will serve as president and vice president/creative director respectively of the new venture.


  • Bluestreak has added JOSEPH CARPENTIERI, MICHAEL AUFRICHTIG, EPHRAIM DIAMENT and RAY MCINTYRE to its sales department and LEAH HOLZMAN as director of marketing.


  • SCOTT PORTUGAL has joined TACODA as vice president, publisher support and PRAVIN CHANDIRAMANI was named director, publisher support.