Sean McDonald and Blaine van Bruggen have joined TAXI as director, digital strategy and digital account director, respectively.
Carmichael Lynch Spong named Lori Robinson as senior principal, director of Carmichael Lynch Spong New York. Most recently, she served as senior vice president, director of marketing and business development for Hill & Knowlton U.S. in New York.
Mullen hired Kristen Cavallo as chief strategy officer, replacing Stephen Hahn-Griffiths who joined Leo Burnett in Chicago in a senior strategy role. Cavallo comes to Mullen from The Martin Agency, where she was senior vice president, planning and development.
Amber Edwards joined Draftfcb Healthcare as executive vice president, group management director.
Suhaila Suhimi joins MediaVest USA as senior vice president, group digital director. Most recently, Suhimi served as director of digital strategy for MediaCom's Chicago and Los Angeles operations.
Draftfcb New York hired Jill Applebaum as senior vice president, group creative director. Applebaum joined the agency from Young & Rubicam/BrandBuzz, where she served as creative director.
Carmichael Lynch hired Dave Damman as executive creative director, beginning April 4. In addition, Randy Hughes, the agency's group creative director, has been promoted to executive creative director. Lastly, Char Roseblade was named director of marketing.
BBH New York hired Ari Weiss as executive creative director on the Axe account. Weiss most recently worked at 180 Los Angeles as the creative director on Sony and Boost Mobile.
Creature hired Hemant Anant Jain as an associate creative director. He most recently served as creative director at Wieden + Kennedy, New Delhi.
James Simon has joined Aggregate Knowledge as senior vice president of business development.
Digital Operative has hired Anthony Sessa as web developer and Mathew Weppler as technology manager.
Momentum Worldwide hired Adrienne Scordato as vice president, director of global communications, replacing Stephanie Rudnick. Prior to joining Momentum Worldwide, Scordato handled all public relations and corporate communications initiatives for digital shop, T3.
Discovery Communications has promoted Michelina Gauthier to senior vice president, talent business and legal affairs.
MediaBank has hired former Yahoo! executive Stephanie Dorman as vice president, support and training.
Delores Hively was named new business development and west coast representative for Brand New School.
JWT hired Craig Love and Shayne Millington as creative directors. The duo joins JWT from Wieden+Kennedy, where Love was a senior copywriter and Millington a senior art director.