Tuesday, July 7, 2015
- Team One
Team One tapped Jon Ruppel as creative director, slated with enhancing the agency’s offerings in creative technology and digital product development. He will also head a newly assembled group of designers and technologists. Prior to Team One, Ruppel held leadership positions at TBWA/Chiat Day and Schematic (now part of Possible Worldwide) producing work for brands like Nissan, Sony Playstation, Comcast, Target and T-Mobile. Ruppel also founded and operated Hooky Interactive, a boutique digital agency that worked with The Walt Disney Company, FOX Broadcasting and Sony Entertainment. - Innocean
Innocean Worldwide Americas (IWA) tapped Steve Jun as CEO, beginning July 29. Jun replaces Tony Kim, who served as CEO for six years in the U.S. and will be returning to the agency's headquarters in Seoul, Korea. Jun was most recently CEO of Innocean's European operations, and is one of the agency's founding members. "IWA is a young, ambitious agency at a crucial point in time," said Jun. "We have a group of very talented individuals along with an unusual amount of experience in highly competitive categories. Going forward, our determination along with hard work and dedication to our clients, favor our growth." Current Innocean clients include Hyundai Motor America, KIA Motors America, NRG Energy and Footjoy. - MKTG INC
MKTG INC, part of the Dentsu Aegis Network, hired Jim Garofalo as a vice president of client services based in Chicago. Garofalo joins the agency from PepsiCo's Gatorade unit where he was the director of marketing -- global sports services for more than ten years. While there, he lead the team that focused on implementing a global marketing strategy for the Gatorade Sports Science Institute, Sports and Sports Science Influencers that connected athletes, teams, leagues and sports performance professionals with Gatorade's science and product portfolio. At MKTG INC, he will be tasked with day-to-day management of several agency clients including DICK'S Sporting Goods and Gatorade. "Jim's track record of building and managing successful partnerships for brands, teams and leagues in the US and abroad, as well as his understanding of sponsorship made him the perfect fit for our agency's continual evolution and growth," said Charlie Horsey, CEO of MKTG. "He brings a tremendous level of strategic thinking and leadership to MKTG and we are thrilled he's joined our team."
- GSD&M
GSD&M promoted Keith Jose to senior vice president of business development. He will continue to lead the new business team and GSD&M's new business efforts. Jose first joined the agency in 1999 in a project management role. He then worked for six years as GSD&M's business development supervisor, where he helped win the BMW and Norwegian Cruise Line accounts for the agency. In 2007, Jose moved to JWT Atlanta, where he served as director of business development until his return to GSD&M in 2012. "Nobody tackles a challenge better than Keith does," said J.B. Raftus, executive vice president/chief marketing officer of GSD&M. "The GSD&M new business machine runs fast and hard and Keith is a master at leading this 'managed chaos' with a calm hand and a sharp wit. His smarts and enthusiasm are contagious." - The Martin Agency
The Martin Agency promoted Andy Azula to executive creative director. - Assembly
Assembly added director Jeffrey Fleisig to its roster. - Conde Nast Entertainment
Conde Nast Entertainment named Teal Newland senior vice president, marketing and partner management. - Eleven San Francisco
Eleven San Francisco promoted Sara Worthington and Aryan Aminzadeh to creative directors. - Camp + King
Camp + King hired Ali Sooudi as senior art director and Erik Gonzalez as copywriter. - Cece Ryan
Cece Ryan was named publisher of Real Simple. - Droga5
Droga5 hired Marianne Stefanowicz as global head of communications, a new role at the agency. She joins the agency from TBWA\Worldwide, where she also served as global head of communications. - Turner Broadcasting System
Rachelle Savoia was promoted to vice president of communications for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. - truTV
Raymond Dooley was named vice president of marketing for truTV. - The Marketing Store Worldwide
The Marketing Store Worldwide hired Michael Jenneman as vice president, strategy, helping to lead business for Nissan and Infiniti. - TBWA\Chiat\Day NY
TBWA\Chiat\Day NY hired Josh Tavlin and Adam Wohl as global creative directors, and Natalie Puccio as group planning director. - GMR
GMR hired Aubrey Walker as a creative director, ideation and Robert Kodadek as director of creative production. - AMC and SundanceTV
Joel Stillerman was elevated to president of original programming and development for both AMC and SundanceTV, and Jan Diedrichsen was promoted to executive director of SundanceTV. AMC's head of public relations, Marnie Black, was promoted to executive vice president of public relations for AMC and SundanceTV. - Crown Media Family Networks
Crown Media Family Networks hired Maria Fischer and Chandler Hayes as directors of network program publicity. - Mashable
Mashable hired Hillary Busis as deputy entertainment editor. - MING Utility and Entertainment Group
MING Utility and Entertainment Group promoted Joanna Crean and Rasmus Keger to creative directors. - Revcontent
Revcontent hired Rick Landsman as chief technology officer. - Viewbix
Viewbix hired Rob Tariche as vice president, eastern sales. - Polar
Polar hired Adam Klee as vice president of publisher services. - Q1Media
Q1Media hired John Brackett as senior product manager. - Krux
Krux hired Jon Suarez-Davis as chief marketing and strategy officer. - Not To Scale
Not To Scale added writer and director, Robert Rugan, to its roster of directors. - Base Design
Base Design appointed Daniel Peterson as design director at the company's New York office. - SOUTH
SOUTH named Ann Haugen as executive vice president/director of production. - SPLICE
SPLICE hired Ryan Markley as VFX Artist. - The Weather Company
The Weather Company named Domenic Venuto as general manager, AdFX, responsible for leading the company's weather products, as well as building Weather's location-based products, capabilities, activation and analytics. - Siteworx
Siteworx hired Brian Gluckman as principal, strategy. - Smak
Smak promoted Nikki Hedstrom to president. - Stink USA
Owen Trevor joined Stink USA's directorial roster. - Verve Mobile
Verve Mobile added Julie Bernard as chief marketing officer. - 4INFO
JB Sugar, formerly vice president of AOL's MapQuest, joined 4INFO as vice president of advertising sales. - ChoiceStream
ChoiceStream hired Luke Burke as regional vice president of sales, west. - Aardman
Aardman signed Finnish 2D director, illustrator and animator Asa Lucander. The studio will represent her for her work in the UK. - Appboy
Appboy hired Marissa Aydlett as vice president of marketing, Oliver Bell as vice president of operations and Matthew McRoberts as vice president of partnerships. - Fueld Films
Fueld Films opened a second office in Denver, signing directors Annie Gunn, Nate Balli, Doug Chamberlain, Kevin Kerwin, Nic Iyer, David Quinn and Jake Kovnat. - Swrve
Swrve hired Martin Doettling as chief marketing officer. - Pac-12 Conference and Pac-12 Networks
Heather Vaughan was promoted to the dual role of vice president of marketing for both the Pac-12 Conference and Pac-12 Networks. - CBX
Jennifer Tauschjoined CBX as creative director. - Criteo
James Smith joined Criteo as executive vice president, Americas. - crush+lab
crush+lab hired Mike Ferry as head of development. - Sonar Entertainment
Sonar Entertainment hired Axel Boehm as senior vice president, international sales and Patrick Phelan as vice president, international sales.
