Arthur Bijur, Pat Stern and David McNamara have launched WORKSHOP, a full-service agency in New York. Its first assignment will be for the Robin Hood Foundation.
Cramer-Krasselt promoted Karen Seamen to the new post of chief operating officer. Seamen will continue to serve as general manager of C-K's Chicago headquarters.
DDB Canada hired Ed Lee as director of social media to lead Radar DDB. He joins DDB Canada from Veritas Communications, where he served as managing director.
Pixorial named Ari Kaufman as CEO.
DataXu hired Beth Gregg as director of sales, based in San Francisco and Jesse Cozart as director of sales, based in New York.
Cartoon Network promoted Josh Feldman to senior vice president of ad sales, overseeing client relationships for the television and new media platforms supporting Cartoon Network and Adult Swim.
Joshua Brandau was named acting media director for Pereira & O'Dell. Brandau, who joined Pereira & O'Dell's strategy group in May 2009, oversees all mediums of purchase with an expertise in partnership negotiations.
JWT New York promoted Eric Weisberg and Tom Christmann to executive creative directors, Howard Lenn to creative director, and Aaron Padin to head of art.
Mark Pinney has been promoted to chief operating officer of Tremor Media.
Dieste promoted Elizabeth Fauerso to executive director of planning.
Ryan Libby was promoted to director of OLSON's studio team, up from associate director.
Ryan Jamboretz joined TidalTV as chief media & development officer. Tom McMahon was promoted to president and Kevin Haley was elevated to chief scientist.
Red Tettemer promoted Todd Taylor and Matt Lanzdorf to co-creative directors. Janelle Fisher was named senior account manager; Scott Peters as senior account manager; and John Connors as copywriter.
BOHAN Advertising | Marketing has hired Nicole Minton as managing supervisor.
Julian Hills joined Eclipse Advertising as chief creative officer.
The Associated Press named Nick Ascheim as general manager of AP Digital. In addition, Daisy Veerasingham was promoted to senior vice president for business development and partner relations for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia. Lastly, Sue Cross, currently senior vice president, will take on an expanded role as senior vice president for business development and partner relations for the Americas.
Wunderman named Mark Russell to a dual role of president for Wunderman Toronto and managing director of a newly created central region of Blast Radius' presence in Dearborn, Chicago and Toronto. Prior to joining the Toronto office, Russell served as managing director of Direct, Digital and Marketing Sciences for Team Detroit.
Doug MacDonald has been named vice president, digital for the Newspaper National Network.