Captivate Network, Inc., the national news and entertainment network, announced that MICHAEL GANNON is joining the company as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Gannon joined Captivate from Wink Communications, where he served as Vice President, Sales. His 25 years of experience includes 14 years at ESPN, where he helped grow the network to over $500 million in sales. He also held Senior Sales positions at Pax TV and Speedvision, and started his career at ABC, CBS and NBC.

Jon Miller, the new CEO of AOL, is expected to disclose his plans for the reorganization of the troubled interactive unit. The overhaul is expected to disperse employees in AOL's business affairs unit throughout the company, leaving only a handful of personnel at its Dulles, Va., headquarters. The unit, comprised of more than 80 people, has been under scrutiny since The Washington Post reported last month of controversial ad and e-commerce deals. The unit traditionally played a role in various parts of big cross-media advertising deals.

BROOKE E. TWEDDELL was recently named Vice President/Group Director for Rutland MKB, a full service advertising, media and marketing communications company. She will oversee daily operations in the Memphis, TN office, including launching the company's national/regional Media Services Division. Tweddell comes to Rutland MKB following a 3 year post at Archer Malmo where she served as Vice President of the company's Retail/Restaurant Services Group.

KEVYN LEWIS has been named GlobalHue’s President and Chief Creative Officer. As Chief Creative Officer, Lewis is responsible for the development of all creative concepts, advertising and materials that are directed to the African-American, Hispanic, and the Asian-American and urban markets. Lewis came to GlobalHue, then Don Coleman and Associates, in 1990 after working with African-American advertising agencies in Chicago for more than a decade.

WILLIAM GORSKI has joined DraftWorldwide as Senior Executive Vice President, Director of Direct Marketing. He will lead all of the agency's direct marketing accounts, including General Motors, Sprint, DeVry University, Monster.com, H&R Block, and healthcare accounts including Aventis. Gorski joins DraftWorldwide from e-Dialog, Boston, where he was Executive Vice President. Prior to e-Dialog, Gorski was Vice President-Director, Integrated Marketing at Digitas, Boston, where he was the Relationship Manager for the Xerox account.

MaxWorldwide, Inc., formerly L90, today announced that BILL WISE, who recently joined MaxWorldwide from DoubleClick, has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer of the company, a newly formed position. Wise joined MaxWorldwide as Executive Vice President in July 2002 where his responsibilities included overseeing strategy and corporate development for MaxWorldwide as well as managing the MaxOnline Direct division. Most recently he was the Vice President of Business Strategy and Direct Marketing for DoubleClick's North American Media Network.

National Cable Communications has promoted PERRY SHELMAN to Sales Manager of its CableLink Interconnects Division, while naming MICHAEL PRICE as National Interconnect Manager of CableLink's Albany, N.Y., market. Shelman will oversee sales efforts for all seven CableLink Interconnects markets: Albany, Cleveland, Buffalo, Grand Rapids, Hartford, Providence, and Wilkes-Barre. Prior to joining NCC, Shelman spent 24 years in a variety of sales management and marketing positions in broadcasting and cable. Price joins CableLink Interconnects with more than 20 years of sales experience in cable, broadcasting and radio, both nationally and internationally. Most recently, Price served as General Manager of Cablevision's Rainbow …

360 Youth, an Alloy, Inc. Company, announced the hire of CHARLIE MARINO as VP, Location Media. Charlie will oversee the country's largest network of in-school media, comprised of over 40,000 media boards in 10,000 high-schools. In Marino's 21 year career in outdoor advertising he has held positions such as President/General Manager of the Baltimore Division of Eller Media and Regional General Manager of Revere National Corporation.

Henninger Richmond, the post-production and multimedia solutions company has named a new management team of ANTHONY JOHNSON as General Manager and ADAM KRANITZ as Manager of Business Development. They will report directly to SCOTT WITTHAUS, who has been promoted to Vice President, Operations, for Henninger Media Services. Scott Witthaus, Facilities Manager at Henninger Richmond until last year, was most recently Vice President and General Manager for Henninger DC Operations. Anthony Johnson's background includes President/Owner of Spritworks Communications, a media consulting and production company and Director of Operations and Production at Black Entertainment Television. Adam Kranitz brings to Henninger 10 years …

Internet veteran LARRY ALLEN has accepted a Vice President position with Viewpoint Corporation, provider of rich media technology for the Web. Since 1996, Allen has been at 24/7 Real Media (formerly Real Media), where he lead the development of the Open AdStream and Open Advertiser ad management technology solutions.