SUZIE ROSS has been named VP, Operations at Precision Marketing/CMR. She was previously Research Director at G&J's Fast Company magazine.

TOM KELLEY has joined Knight Ridder Digital as Regional Sales Manager selling The Real Cities Network. He was most recently a Sales Manager at Ask Jeeves.

LINDSEY P. DRAVES has been named General Manager of Multimedia Audience Research Systems (MARS). Draves was the Vice President of Client Information for Media Metrix (1999-2001) prior to joining MARS.

National Cable Communications, the spot cable rep firm, has promoted three individuals to Account Executives. NCC's newest AE's are BOB DERBOGHOSSIAN (Chicago), DOUG GESIORSKI (Washington, D.C.) and JEREMY PELLEGRINI (Washington, D.C.). derBoghossian joined NCC in March 1998 as a Sales Assistant in the New York sales office. In February 1999, he was promoted to Sales Coordinator. Gesiorski joined NCC in October 1999 as a Sales Planner. He previously was an Assistant Media Buyer with Circuit City Stores, Inc. in Richmond, Va. Pellegrini joined NCC in January 2000 as a Sales Assistant. He came from Fenton Communications in Washington, …

BOB MCCAULEY has been chosen for the position of Adlink's new President. He comes to Adlink from KCOP-TV and KTTV-TV in Los Angeles where he served as Vice President/General Sales Manager.

JAY CHIAT died in Los Angeles at 6:00 am. Tuesday morning. Chiat was the founder, in 1962, of an agency that would become Chiat/Day.

A.J. VISCOMI has joined Roska Direct as VP/Director of Client Services. Viscomi, formerly VP/Director of Direct Response Marketing at The Martin Agency in Richmond, Virginia, will head up account management for the direct shop. Executive Vice President JAY BOLLING previously held this position and will now focus on business development.

ADRIENNE H. BILLS has been named to the position of Northeast sales manager and director of brand extensions for both National Real Estate Investor and Shopping Center World at Primedia Business. Bills comes to Primedia Business from Commercial Property News.

GABE JOHSON has been promoted to the role of Client Services Director at Memetic Systems. He has been with the company for three weeks.

BaseSix, a strategic marketing firm, has announced multiple hires. ROB JOHNSON joined the company in the Account Management department, JEFF ZANNELLA was hired to boost BaseSix's media planning and analysis team, and MARK OGLIA was brought on to the firm's web design and development group. Johnson had been at AOL, Digitas, and iCast. Zanella comes from Digitas. Oglia had done projects for SBLI, RE/MAX, Wachusett Mountain, and Aubuchon Hardware.