Red Urban hired Peter Housley as president and CEO of Red Urban's soon-to-be-opened Toronto agency. Previously, Housley has served as president of Milestones Restaurants and CEO at Lavalife.
Wunderman Singapore hired Leon Traazil as strategic planner. Previously, Traazil was account director at Arc Worldwide managing and leading the Hewlett-Packard digital account across Asia Pacific.
Angela Brown joined Young & Laramore as account supervisor.
John Sedlak has joined BlueKai as senior vice president of global sales.
William Byrne joined Euro RSCG Chicago as manager of corporate communications. Byrne most recently served as manager of PR and corporate communications at Classic Residence By Hyatt.
Tribal Fusion hired Carolyn Cramer as director of sales, Canada.
Firstborn hired Kristin Keefe, as a senior producer. In addition, Nikki Defeo was named as a creative copywriter, joining the company from Poke NY, where she was a writer and strategist. Lastly, Crystinue Cho was promoted from senior producer to executive producer.
Horizon Media hired Serena Duff as executive vice president, managing partner, for the Los Angeles office. Most recently, Duff was senior vice president, communications planning at Universal McCann, working on accounts including Sony Pictures, Zicam and Southern Comfort.
Sarah Fay, former CEO of Aegis Media North America, has joined the Advisory Board of Good Health Media.
Juli Black launched Something Good Media, a firm that aggregates advanced media inventory from participating content providers, distributors and platforms.
180 Los Angeles promoted Amir Farhang to the newly created role of creative director of digital and innovation.
Digitas hired Mitch Levy as executive creative director of P&G for the agency's Boston office. Levy joins Digitas from The Spark Factory, where he developed campaigns for clients such as Factory London and Golden Park Beach Resort.
Cramer-Krasselt/Chicago has hired John Nussbaum, previously with Fallon/Minneapolis and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, as associate creative director.
Mia Drexl-Schegg joined BSUR as international account director. Schegg joins the agency from Plantage in Berlin where she worked on the MINI International account.
HitFix.com hired Jennifer Van Hook as senior vice president of sales.
Uptown Magazine hired John Rollins as regional advertising director.
Vibe Lifestyle Network, parent company of Vibe Magazine/Vibe.com, hired Asten Morgan, Jr. as associate publisher, director of sales. He was formerly executive director of national sales for Glam Media.
R. Vann Graves joins McCann NY as group creative director. He was previously chief creative officer at UniWorld Group.
Touch DDB, part of DDB UK, hired Lisa Wallace and Danni Emery as copywriters. Wallace and Emery will work across all accounts including, VW; Star Alliance; Phillips and The Financial Times.
pohmedia hired Josh Munsee as chief creative strategist. Munsee joined pohmedia from Peak Seven where he served as creative director for the last two years.