Tue, Oct 9, 2007

  • The Huffington Post named BETSY L. MORGAN as chief executive officer. She joins the company from CBS Interactive, where she was in charge of the network's 24-hour on-demand news service.

  • Creature named TOM O'CONNOR as associate creative director. O'Connor joins the agency from Wieden+Kennedy Portland where he freelanced on Nike and EA.

  • Outdoor Channel named SCOTT MANN to the new position of vice president, outdoor affinity marketing.

  • Avenue A | Razorfish San Francisco named HOLLY PERKINS as director, creative services.

  • MARY HANLEY joined Draftfcb Chicago as vice president, field media director. Hanley is responsible for overseeing the newly won Coors local media assignment. She most recently worked at OMD, where she served as the agency's client communications director, working on McDonald's, The William Wrigley Jr. Co. and LaSalle Bank in Chicago and Michigan.

  • BBDO New York promoted ELIZABETH DAGGETT to worldwide account director on GE. She was most recently a SVP and senior account director on the business.

  • Empower MediaMarketing, Cincinnati hired CINDY JARRELL as client strategy director; MICHAEL LAMONTAGNE as digital strategist/search and CAROL SORENSON as human resources director.

  • YCD hired BARRY SALZMAN as CEO.

  • Medio Systems named BEN TATTON-BROWN to the newly created position of head of advertising sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

  • Moroch hired MONIQUE DAVILA as senior account executive for the McDonald's brand and BRIAN BELL as account coordinator on McDonald's.

  • The TM Forum named KELLY ANDERSON to head the Cable Sector for the forum. She joins the company from IPDR.org.

  • Travel Ad Network promoted SCOTT CHERKIN from director, business development to vice president, business and product development and elevated NEIL STROW from senior director, east coast sales to vice president national advertising sales.

  • GORDON NELSON returned to Mullen as senior vice president, loyalty and credit card marketing of the Detroit office. Nelson was most recently with MasterCard as a senior executive with the HSBC account team. He was responsible for managing and developing the bank partner business relationship with General Motors.

  • DARREN SAVAGE joined the London office of R/GA as planning director. Most recently, Savage was head of strategic planning at AKQA in London.

  • GREGORY R. GOODMAN joined Travel Ad Network as an account manager in the New York office and DEENA BENZ was named account executive, west coast sales, based in Los Angeles.

  • The Wall Street Journal named CHRIS COLLINS vice president of multimedia sales. Previously, Collins was vice president of multimedia sales at ESPN for its TV, magazine, and online properties.

  • IRIS LEE was promoted to vice president/Midwest sales manager for Turner Broadcasting's Cartoon Network and [adult swim].

  • LORI ALTMAN was promoted to director/east coast advertising sales at USA WEEKEND magazine; MICHAEL O'BRIEN was elevated to director/Midwest advertising sales and JUDY HUKVARI was promoted to senior account executive in Chicago.

  • Creative Search Media appointed CHARLES KELLER as director of digital media.

  • ANTRA PICARD joined Adify as a regional sales director.

  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios' Worldwide Television Group named CHRISTOPHER OTTINGER as executive vice president, international television distribution. Most recently, he was executive vice president for both Fox World and Fox Television Studios International.

  • Cramer-Krasselt hired NOEL HAAN and G. ANDREW MEYER as group creative directors. Haan previously served as art director/evp, executive creative director at Leo Burnett and Meyer was previously with Leo Burnett as copywriter/evp, executive creative director.

  • MARK RUSSELL was named president of Wunderman Team Detroit. Most recently, Russell was senior vice president and managing director of the Boston and Dallas offices of Carat Fusion, where he was responsible for 22 national and global clients include John Deere, Wachovia, AOL, Reebok, Motorola and Radio Shack.

  • Clear Channel Katz Advantage promoted JEANNE SCHAD to vice president/director, marketing advantage in its Los Angeles office.

  • MATT MASTRANGELO was named executive director of corporate sales and marketing at Wenner Media. Additionally, JEREMY LEVINE was promoted to associate publisher of Men's Journal. He previously held the position of advertising director for the magazine. Also, DEVIN COHAN was promoted to advertising director of Men's Journal.

  • Revenue Science hired SCOTT TRAVIS and MATT SPENGLER as sales managers, JAMES MCWILLIAMS as account manager and ELISSA REILING as marketing manager.

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