Tuesday, July 5, 2016
- Razorfish Health
David Paragamian was named managing director for Razorfish Health, a division of Publicis Health. Paragamian will oversee Razorfish Health businesses across North America, including offices in New York and Philadelphia. He will report to Matt McNally, group president, Publicis Health. Paragamian began his career in brand management at Procter & Gamble. He also worked as a product director at the McNeil unit of Johnson & Johnson, then spent five years at Roche in a series of marketing and sales management roles leading to the head of both marketing and sales for Roche Diagnostics US. Paragamian then moved to the agency side, leading several global healthcare agencies, including Havas Health, Euro RSCG Life LM&P and Huntsworth Health. "Dave's deep experience on both the client and agency sides of healthcare communications makes him the perfect leader to take Razorfish Health to the next level," said McNally. "I look forward to his contributions and leadership at Publicis Health." - Eleven
Eleven, a San Francisco-based agency, hired Orit Peleg as director of brand planning. Peleg will work across the all accounts with a particular focus on Dignity Health and new business. Most recently, she was group planning director at Venables Bell & Partners in San Francisco. Before that, she held roles at TBWA\Chiat\Day and Ogilvy. Peleg has worked on global brands such as Audi, Johnson & Johnson, Pepsi, Duracell and Milka. She also worked on both the agency and client side for Coca-Cola. "Strategy is about acting upon a brand's values and being able to push the boundaries of what's comfortable to create deeper meaning in people's lives," said Peleg. There's a tremendous opportunity to partner with the smart, fun, and passionate people at Eleven and showcase this level of strategic thinking." - Ogilvy and Mather New York
Ogilvy and Mather named Colin Drummond as head of planning in the New York office, charged with overseeing brand strategy. He will report to Colin Mitchell, worldwide head of planning. This is Drummond's second stint at Ogilvy & Mather. Previously, he served as chief strategy officer of Ogilvy & Mather in Los Angeles, leading strategic planning and positioning on American Express, Cisco, Beringer and ARCO. He also held strategy positions at Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Mullen and AKQA. Most recently, Drummond was partner and chief strategy officer of Deutsch LA, overseeing the agency's planning and strategy group and working with clients like Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Volkswagen, Target and Dr Pepper Snapple Group. "Colin Drummond is one of the most respected names in the Planning world," said Mitchell. "He has led strategy on many definitive brand campaigns over the last decade and has also trained a cadre of planners who now populate some of the best agency departments in the world. We're delighted to have him back where he belongs." - DigitasLBi San Francisco
Carlos Ricque, senior vice president, creative, of DigitasLBi New York has relocated to the agency's San Francisco office to serve as creative lead. The San Francisco office handles work for eBay, Taco Bell, Sony PlayStation, Pandora and PIRCH, to name a few. He replaces Eric Dean, who left the advertising industry to become a ranch owner in Joshua Tree National Park. Ricque's team won a Grand Prix for "Take it From a Fish" for Astrazeneca, as well as a Silver and a Bronze for its related films at the 2015 Cannes Lions. "He's not only a genuine talent, he's also one of the most genuine people I know. He's the perfect fit for our San Francisco office -- creatively and culturally," said Morgan Carroll, executive vice president, executive creative director for DigitasLBi Chicago & San Francisco. - Turner
Turner named Michael Harwayne as vice president, strategy. - Erwin Penland
Erwin Penland promoted Karen Mawhinney and Kat Shafer to managing directors and Jeff Hoffman to director of business development. - Mirum Agency
Mirum Agency hired Shawn Lockhart as executive producer, Jared VanderHook as senior UX designer and Wes Baker as senior motion design lead. - Rauxa
Rauxa tapped Van Tran as strategy director. - CMT
Rory Levine joined CMT as vice president of consumer marketing and Tessa Jordan as vice president of program planning. The company also promoted Heather DeVaney Graffagnino to vice president of production management and Quinn Brown to vice president of production. - The Tombras Group
The Tombras Group named Rusty Howard as senior vice president, director of social media. - CBS Interactive
Marc DeBevoise has been named president and chief operating officer of CBS Interactive. - MoviePass
MoviePass named Mitch Lowe as CEO. - Adgorithms
Adgorithms named Amy Inlow as chief marketing officer. - West Cary Group
West Cary Group hired Roy Huhta as its first chief product officer. - Elicit
Elicit named Brooke Niemiec as chief marketing officer and Heather Johnson as chief strategy officer. - Standard Time
Standard Time promoted Spencer Somers to creative director; Sara Karnowski to account director; Amy Marek to production head; and hired Ashley Jones as associate creative director. - Orci
Orci hired Luiz Salles as senior vice president, head of strategic planning and Susan Page as senior vice president, strategic partnerships.
- HelloWorld
HelloWorld names Chris Bennett as vice president, managing director, HelloWorld Seattle and promoted Josh Yaker to general counsel. - HMSDesign
HMSDesign hired Kelly Glotzer as vice president of client services. - Justworks
Justworks added Jason Whitman as vice president of customer experience. - App Annie
App Annie named Al Campa as chief marketing officer. - New York Festival's Midas Awards
Deb Ryan was named executive director of New York Festival's Midas Awards. - Women's Marketing
Women's Marketing named Kathryn Pleines as director of social strategy. She joins the agency from Match Marketing Group where she served as associate director, social media marketing. - 500px
500px hired Sylvia Ng as vice president of growth and analytics. - Wanda London
Wanda London added James Copeman to its directorial roster. - Lands' End
Becky Gebhardt was promoted to executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Lands' End. - Overit
Overit hired Joe Arcuri as director of product and UX. - Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation tapped Katherine Maher as executive director. - Adelphic
Adelphic named Jacqueline Berg as general manager of the Americas. - Zylight
Zylight named Bob Jones as national sales manager for North America. - Lippincott
Lippincott hired Shiv Gupta as a senior partner in the brand strategy practice. - Thinkingbox
Thinkingbox has hired six new employees in its Toronto and Vancouver offices as a result of recent growth. Stephanie DeBou joins as vice president, digital strategy; Miquel Reina as a senior designer; Nicole Rego as full stack developer; Dennis Miniato as 3D artist; Andrew Wadsworth as account manager and Nicole Farley as talent acquisition recruiter. - Favor
Favor hired Uri Bogler as vice president of marketing. - Hoffman Bros.
Directors Matt and Mark Hoffman and long-time producing partner John Beveridge have launched commercial production company Hoffman Bros. - WHITE64
WHITE64 hired Alex Belgrave as art director; Emily Scheu as senior media planner; Nick Walters as front-end developer; Grace Shomaker as assistant account executive; Lyon McCandless as account executive; Michelle Chammas as social media specialist and Mara Bealey as media planner/buyer. - BlueJeans Network
BlueJeans Network named Robert Park as its first chief financial officer. - Federated Media
Federated Media promotedRyan Nathanson to vice president, digital strategy and ad operations and Marika Gonzalez Whitehurst to vice president, digital media activation. - Unruly
Unruly added Jeff Minsky as senior vice president of agency & client development, Steven Sottile as senior vice president of sales, US and Seho Lee as vice president, programmatic sales, US.
