Lowe Campbell Ewald hired Curtis Melville as executive creative director of the agency's Detroit office. He will report to Mark Simon, chief creative officer of Lowe Campbell Ewald, and work with all agency clients. Melville joins the agency from Team Detroit, where he served as executive vice president, executive creative director, responsible for Ford’s U.S. advertising communications, including traditional, digital, social, branded content and retail efforts. Prior to that, Melville worked at Ogilvy & Mather, Saatchi & Saatchi and Hal Riney, on brands like HP, Yahoo! and iShares.

VML promoted Chuck Searle to chief client officer, up from executive director of client services. He succeeds Beth Wade, who was appointed the agency's first chief marketing officer in 2013. In his new role, Searle will continue to lead the client services department and major client engagements, including Gatorade, PepsiCo, Southwest Airlines, U.S. Soccer and Wendy's. Searle joined the agency in 2000, beginning as a media associate and working up to various leadership roles within the client services department. Co-managing directors Jennifer McDonald, Joe Grigsby, Renee Holmes and Conan Venus, will continue the day-to-day management and leadership of the department. Searle will report to Jon Cook, CEO and president of VML.

Lynn Power was named a managing director of JWT New York. Power will partner with Claire Capeci, who was named managing director in December 2013, to lead the agency's flagship New York office. Power was most recently president and managing partner of Arnold New York. Both Power and Capeci will report to Gustavo Martinez, global president, JWT Worldwide. Power and Capeci will be responsible for driving the overall strategic direction and growth of the office, as well as managing client relationships. In the five years she ran Arnold New York, Power led many new business wins including 23andMe, Alberto Culver, Del Monte, Kohler and Sanofi. Previously, Power held roles at BBDO, Grey New York and Ogilvy & Mather, working on clients like American Express, Clinique, Hershey's, Gillette and L'Oreal.

Austin-based McGarrah Jessee hired Joel Clement as a writer. For the past eight years, Clement served as executive creative director at Saatchi & Saatchi in Bangkok. He also held the role of regional creative director for all of Saatchi & Saatchi Asia, which includes offices in Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, India and Singapore. While there, Clement worked on brands such as Guinness, Electrolux and Procter & Gamble. "Repatriating to the US I had a pretty specific ideal in mind," said Clement. "I wanted to be part of an independent shop for the creative license it would afford, and I wanted to be part of an agency with a strong positive culture." Prior to Saatchi & Saatchi, Clement had two stints with Goodby Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco, from 1997-2000 and again from 2002-2003, working on Nike and HP. In between, he was working in Asia with BBH in Singapore, Ogilvy & Mather in Bangkok and TBWA\Thailand.

Paul Wallace was promoted to executive creative director of DDB Canada Toronto and David Ross was elevated to creative director. In his new role, Wallace will lead and manage the Toronto office's creative department while Ross will take on a more expansive role within the department and assume creative leadership on additional client business. For the past 13 years, Wallace and Ross have played important roles in the Toronto office's creative department, taking on more responsibility as they transitioned from art director and copywriter respectively to associate creative directors. Both have contributed to developing campaigns for clients such as Cialis, Becel, Subaru Canada and the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, which have garnered Cannes Lions, One Show Pencils, Clio's and CASSIES.

Zambezi hired Ricardo Diaz as director of digital.

Deutsch NY promoted Amy d’Oliveira to senior vice president, CRM strategist; Jeremy Gelade to senior vice president, director of integrated workflow; Karyn Pascoe to executive vice president, group creative director; Shobha Sairam to executive vice president, group planning director; and Joanne Scannello to executive vice president, group creative director.

Conde Nast Entertainment named Lesley Nadler as executive director of digital video sales.

RAPP hired Randy Morton as senior vice president, director of integrated production, based out of the Los Angeles office. 

Gyro hired Steve Mawhinney as creative director of its San Francisco office.

Laura Forti was promoted to vice president of Turner Entertainment Networks (TEN) Distribution, the division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. that handles distribution for TBS, TNT, truTV and Turner Classic Movies (TCM) original programs.

Carol Terakawa was hired as senior vice president of sales at PK4 Media's Los Angeles office.

MediaMath named Dave Reed as managing director for EMEA, a new position at the company.

Slant named Christopher McGuire as vice president and general manager.

Commonground hired Brendan O'Malley as executive producer of both broadcast and digital across all agency business in New York.

Operative hired Dave Villano as chief technology officer.

Rauxa promoted to Allison Yardeni to vice president, account services, David Janszen to account director and hired Nanci Muriello as an account director.

Jonathan Hall has been named president, consulting, North America, of Added Value, a WPP-owned marketing consultancy.

Tremor Video hired Christine Kubisztal and Kevin Blaine to lead the Midwest and west coast enterprise sales teams, respectively.

Centro hired Matt Davis as National vice president of platform sales and promoted Mike Olson to regional vice president, west.

Celtra hired Doug MacDonald as senior vice president, agency sales and Greg Roth as vice president, social.