People on the Move
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
  • Dawn Furey
    Meredith Xcelerated Marketing

    Meredith Xcelerated Marketing hired Dawn Furey as senior vice president, head of social. Furey joins the agency from Deep Focus, where she served as director of client services. In this new position, Furey will lead MXM's social practice across North America, overseeing account management, engagement, creative and paid media teams. She will also serve as the operational manager of MXM's Washington D.C. office, reporting to Douglas Rozen, chief innovation officer at MXM. While at Deep Focus, Furey was responsible for delivering integrated digital solutions to Fortune 500 companies such as Nestle Purina, Nespresso, Frito-Lay, MasterCard and Google. Prior to Deep Focus, Furey held multiple roles at IBM which enabled her to educate IBM Business Units around the world on digital best practices as well as operationalizing and consolidating IBM's roster of agency partners. Throughout her career, Furey has also held senior-level positions at Havas WorldWide, Publicis Modem, Agency.com, McCann Worldwide and Atmosphere BBDO working on top brands and clients including General Mills, Citibank, LG, Intel, AT&T and GE, among others.

  • Adrian Fogel, Ryan Hallquist and Greg Getner
    Y&R Midwest

    Y&R Midwest added three new planners in its planning department. Adrian Fogel joined as senior vice president, planning director, Ryan Hallquist as senior planner and Greg Getner as planning director, social/digital. All three report to Tricia Russo, chief strategy officer of Y&R Midwest. Fogel, formerly a creative strategist at Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Merkley + Partners and DDB, was most recently the strategic lead on the Kellogg's Adult Portfolio at Leo Burnett. Hallquist joined the agency from Energy BBDO, where he was a senior planner. Getner previously worked at Saatchi & Saatchi, Digitas and most recently at Havas, where he served as digital cultural anthropologist. Collectively, the team has worked on brands including BMW Mini Cooper, Virgin Atlantic Airlines, IKEA, Method, Best Buy/Geek Squad, McDonald's, Kellogg's, Kraft, Oscar Mayer, Jim Beam, Knob Creek, Canadian Club, American Express, Mercedes Benz, Toyota and Jet Blue.

  • Matt O’Rourke
    Deutsch LA
    Deutsch LA hired Matt O'Rourke as executive creative director. O'Rourke will co-lead all digital efforts at Deutsch LA with Jerome Austria, who recently rejoined the agency. He joins the agency from Wieden+Kennedy where he served as creative director, working on Old Spice, Levi's, Sony, Powerade and Oreo. Prior to joining W+K in 2011, O'Rourke worked as an executive creative director at CP+B, where he led creative efforts on Burger King, Jell-O, and Kraft Mac and Cheese. His career as a creative director began at McCann Erickson in New York, where he built and led that agency's digital creative capabilities, and was responsible for work across the agency's entire roster.
  • Sam Chadha, Glenn Geller and Dina Light-McNeely
    Moroch Partners

    Moroch Partners hired Sam Chadha as the agency's first chief integration officer, Glenn Geller as managing partner of brand planning strategy and Dina Light-McNeely as partner, director of digital & social strategy. Prior to Moroch, Chadha was executive vice president, managing director of business strategy and development at Starcom MediaVest Group in Chicago. Chadha has worked on brands like Jose Cuervo Tequila International, Unilever North America (Axe, Degree, Dove and Suave), YUM! - KFC and AMC Network. Geller joins Moroch to lead Brand Planning, joining the agency from Lowe Campbell Ewald. where he was director of solutions planning. He served as executive vice president, director of planning and research at Boznell/Temerlin McClain for almost two decades. Light-McNeely held a strategic leadership role on IMC2's pharmaceutical and retail clients, served as executive vice president of digital strategy for Rosie Pope and most recently worked as vice president, strategy solutions lead at RAPP. She previously worked on BMW Motors, British Airways, Campbell's, FedEx Office, Bahamas Tourism, GSK, Hewlett-Packard, L'Oreal, Pizza Hut, Sony, TXU Energy and Whirlpool brands.

  • Matthew Litzinger
    Red Lion Canada

    Red Lion Canada, part of Publicis Worldwide, named Matthew Litzinger as president, chief creative officer, effective July 2, 2014. Litzinger, most recently co-chief creative officer of Cossette, helped his former agency win a substantial piece of McDonald's business, which has lead to the opening of Cossette Chicago. "Matt brings a truly innovative leadership spirit to Red Lion," said Yves Gougoux, Chairman of the Board of Publicis Canada. "He has a genuine understanding of not only what it takes to solve a client's challenges today, but anticipate what their future business challenges might be and provide the necessary forward thinking. In that perspective, Matt's innovative personality fits perfectly with Red Lion's mission to be an effective creative business partner with its clients."

  • Donald C. Storm II
    NBC Universal
    NBC Universal tapped Donald C. Storm II (D.C.) to the top financial post at E! and Esquire Network. Based in Los Angeles, Storm will head up financial oversight and operations as chief financial officer for both networks.
  • Sam Moser
    FOX News Channel
    FOX News Channel named Sam Moser vice president of national sales and marketing.
  • Evan Rowe
    JWT Atlanta
    JWT Atlanta hired Evan Rowe as director of analytics and reporting.
  • Marcello Figallo
    MARC USA
    MARC USA hired Marcello Figallo as director of user experience.
  • Jeremy Randol
    Pandora
    Jeremy Randol was named vice president of programmatic sales strategy at Pandora.
  • Dina Juliano
    NBCUniversal
    NBCUniversal’s TV Everywhere division announced that Dina Juliano has been named senior vice president, consumer product strategy. Juliano joins from HBO and reports to Alison Moore, who recently took the newly created role of executive vice president and general manager of NBCUniversal’s TV Everywhere, and formerly led HBO GO.
  • Kofi Amoo-Gottfried
    FCB Garfinkel
    Kofi Amoo-Gottfried joined FCB Garfinkel in New York as chief strategy officer.
  • Karl Bunch
    iSocket
    iSocket named Karl Bunch as chief technology officer.
  • Cole Sletten
    Ready Set Rocket
    Ready Set Rocket promoted Cole Sletten to associate creative director, up from art director.
  • Jerome Peck and Jenna Curammeng
    Elevator
    Elevator promoted Jerome Peck from creative account executive to director of solutions, and hired Jenna Curammeng as graphic designer.
  • Graciela Eleta
    Latinum Network
    Latinum Network added Graciela Eleta as senior strategic advisor.
  • Tamara Norman
    Ketchum
    Ketchum promoted Tamara Norman, partner and director of its New York Corporate Practice, to associate director of its New York office.
  • Pattra Grima and David Woods
    Adroit Digital
    Adroit Digital hired Pattra Grima as a sales planner and David Woods as a sales director.
  • Jeff Merkel
    Issuu
    Jeff Merkel was named chief revenue officer of Issuu.
  • Ben Harknett
    RiskIQ
    RiskIQ hired Ben Harknett as vice president of EMEA. Harknett will lead sales, business development and channels in Europe, the Middle East and Africa as part of the company’s international expansion. He joins RiskIQ from Wildfire, a division of Google, where he was head of EMEA.
  • Jonathan Doan
    eXelate
    eXelate hired Jonathan Doan as senior vice president and general manager, platform software.
  • Chris Woods
    Visible Measures
    Visible Measures tapped Chris Woods as chief revenue officer.
  • Frank Suljic
    AudienceScience
    Frank Suljic joined AudienceScience as vice president of sales, where he'll lead North American sales for the company.
  • Chelsey Waldman
    BARKER
    Chelsey Waldman joined BARKER as account supervisor.
  • Brent Banning
    Lotame
    Lotame hired Brent Banning as strategic client success lead.