Tuesday, July 13, 2010
- MediaWhiz
MediaWhiz named Chuck Shaw as senior vice president, client services; Robert Cordes Kline as senior director, marketing and creative; Rich Wichmann as director, SEM business development; and Alison Minott as manager, affiliate business development. - Maxus Worldwide
Alan Hodge was named trading director for Maxus Worldwide. Hodge, already part of the GroupM family, currently serves as GroupM EMEA trading director. - American Baby magazine
Laura Kalehoff has been named executive editor of American Baby magazine. - McKinney
McKinney hired former Y&R Chicago chief marketing officer Jim Reath as group account director to lead the Qwest Communications and Sherwin-Williams accounts. - DOJO
DOJO hired Angela Cross-Bystrom as director of planning and Rafael Gaino as programs director. - Gotham
Gotham hired Kecia Benvenuto as director of art production. Benvenuto will identify and engage talent in fine art, photography, design and music, for use in client branding and marketing initiatives. Most recently, she sat on the board of directors for the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, where she focused on marketing and fundraising initiatives. - Initiative
Initiative hired Michael Winter as vice president, group account director, responsible for The Home Depot account. Most recently, Winter was vice president, digital group director for Zenith Interactive/Moxie Interactive. - Euro RSCG Singapore
Euro RSCG Singapore unveiled a new management team, hiring Andrew Crombie as CEO and Kevin Pereira as executive creative director. - Dentsu America
Cindy Lee Ransier was promoted to vice president, group media director at Dentsu America. - TechMediaNetwork
TechMediaNetwork hired Eric Richmond as vice president of search and Gary Strauss as vice president of sales. Robert Roy Britt was promoted to editor in chief. - Starcom USA
John Duban joined Starcom USA as executive vice president/managing director, overseeing the agency's Mars Wrigley business as it transitions from sister agency MediaVest to Starcom over the next few months. - Razorfish West
Razorfish West hired Rob Palmer as a creative director. - Wing
Wing hired Alvaro Naddeo as senior art director. He joins from PragmaDDB, where he was associate creative director. - Euro RSCG London
Euro RSCG London promoted Rebecca Moody to head of planning. - StrawberryFrog
StrawberryFrog hired Suzanne Lau as group account director. Prior to joining the agency, Lau served as senior vice president, senior account director of BBDO New York. - Media Innovation Group
The Media Innovation Group promoted Brian Lesser to senior vice president and general manager. - Digitas
Digitas promoted Lincoln Bjorkman to chief creative officer for Digitas North America. - AKQA
AKQA hired Quiche Campbell as head of film. In addition, the agency named Alastair Amin as a senior account director, working on the Xbox account. Alec Boere joins AKQA as a senior account director, working on the British Army account. Lastly, James Scott was named group account director, working on Heineken. - MEC
MEC elevated Keith Tiley to the newly created position of global director of trading. Tiley was previously global business development director. - Scripps Networks Digital
Scripps Networks Digital named Rose Bleszcz as director, interactive ad sales marketing. Most recently, she was director of sales development at EW.com. - Crossmedia NY
Crossmedia NY hired Jaime-Lyn O'Brien as supervisor on the Madison Square Garden Entertainment and LAN Airlines accounts. O'Brien joins the company from MediaVest where she was a media supervisor on WalMart. - The Visionaire Group
The Visionaire Group named Todd Havens as senior account director. Previously, Havens consulted in a marketing capacity for the digital studio. - HNW
HNW hired Bruce Marsh as creative director. - Big Spaceship
Big Spaceship promoted Rob Watts to director of production, while Stephen Koch and Charlie Whitney were elevated to senior developers.
