Frank Unlimited, Seattle hired LeeAnna Buis as media director on all accounts. Previously, Buis was senior manager, media, at Virgen Advertising, Las Vegas.
JWT New York named Lisa Gatto Setten as head of production.
Leo Burnett/Arc Worldwide hired Chris Andrews as executive vice president, account director. Andrews will lead the agency’s North American marketing efforts for Coca-Cola, overseeing the agency’s Sprite account as well as Coca-Cola’s Corporate Social Responsibility assignment, “Live Positively.”
Adaptly hired Joanna Sammartino Bailey as vice president, head of client services.
Nancy Newman will join BuzzFeed as vice president of sales marketing and learning, and Jonathan Perelman will join as vice president of agency strategy and development. Newman was formerly vice president of sales communications and training for the Americas at Yahoo!, and Perelman was most recently Google’s global lead for industry relations.
PostRelease appointed Jason Kalin as senior vice president of business development.
Quantcast hired Tony Smihal as director of marketing & agency development and John Huffman as the director of sales.
The Weather Company tapped Matthew Corbin as general manager of its hyper-local platform.
Kevin Bennett has been promoted to general manager, Investigation Discovery (ID) and retains responsibilities as senior vice president, programming and research ID, Destination America and Military Channel.
R/GA New York hired John McKelvey and Hannes Ciatti as creative directors.
Martini Media hired Gagan Saksena as chief technology officer and Scott Graham as vice president of eastern sales.
RPA hired Albert Ocampo as brand experience director.
rehabstudio opened its first US office, based in New York City. Myke Gerstein, previously director of digital production at Mother New York, was named executive producer.
Tribal Fusion hired Rob Deichert as global general manager.
Matthew George has joined Deutsch New York as senior vice president, director of communications planning, working on a range of clients, including Microsoft, PNC, and MilkPEP.
SportsNet NY hired Julian Woll as an account executive.
LocalResponse hired Niels Meersschaert as senior vice president of technology.
Gary Ross and Martin + Lindsay signed with Furlined for commercial representation.