ELIZABETH BARNES has been named Account Supervisor at Wilkins Media Company. Barnes was promoted to Client Services at Wilkins in September of 2000. Also at Wilkins, SCOTT KIRBY has been named Southeast Regional Account Executive. He had been Director of Franchise Sales at Suburban Lodges of America, Inc.

STEVE BERGER has been named National Accounts Director at GeigerDonnelly Marketing, LLC. Berger brings more than twenty years of experience in marketing and promotions management to GDM.

CRAIG PATTERSON has been promoted to agency President at JWT Tech. In 1998, Patterson joined JWT Tech as Vice President of Client Services.

JOHN COSTELLO has been named chief global marketing officer at Yahoo! Inc. Costello was president and CEO of MVP.com, an Internet sporting goods and outdoor e-commerce company.

JOHN STONE has been appointed to the newly created position of Director of E-mail News Service Sales for Biomedical Market Newsletter Inc, based in Costa Mesa CA. Stone was previously at Kern Direct in the San Fernando Valley and is a long-time industry veteran with over 20 years of publishing and sales experience.

KEITH DUNDAS has been named Vice-President, Marketing at RareMethod. Dundas joins RareMethod from Gettyworks, where he was Director of Marketing Communications.

TIM RICHARDSON has joined Alcott Routon as director of strategic planning. Prior to joining Alcott Routon, Richardson was vice president of strategic marketing for Weberize, a provider of custom web-based marketing and e-commerce solutions.

STEVE SUTER and SAM ASHENOFSKY have been named Marketing Managers for National Cable Communications. Suter joined NCC in 1991 as a Chicago-based Account Executive, while Ashenofsky most recently served as an Account Executive with United Television Sales.

LAWRENCE S. FRIED has joined SQAD Inc. as Chief Revenue Officer/Network TV. Fried joins SQAD with over 30 years' experience in advertising, sales and sales management.

DONALD ALBERT was named Director of Business Development - Sponsorships at eBay. Most recently, he was SVP of Marketing and Sales at wireless startup fusionOne and SVP of Ad Sales and Ecommerce at PointCast.