The American Advertising Federation (AAF) has inducted LINDA DE JESÚS, President of The Bravo Group, into the Advertising Hall of Achievement. De Jesús, together with six other inductees, was honored at a luncheon at the Waldolf-Astoria in New York City. The Advertising Hall of Achievement recognizes industry professionals age 40 and younger who are making a significant impact on the industry through their leadership, career achievements and personal inspirational qualities.

DraftWorldwide, the global integrated marketing agency, made several new hires and promotions in its Chicago and New York offices. DraftWorldwide Chicago has hired ARNEL KASMALLY, as Vice President, Account Director. Kasmally joins DraftWorldwide from Foote Cone & Belding, Chicago, where he was Vice President, Account Director. DraftWorldwide New York has hired PATRICIA BERRY, as Senior Vice President, Group Director, Strategic Planning and Research and LESLIE FOLEY-MCDONALD, as Senior Vice President, Account Director. Berry joins DraftWorldwide from Lowe Lintas & Partners, New York, where she was Executive Vice President, Planning Director. McDonald joins DraftWorldwide from Dirty Water Integrated, New York, where …

DEBBIE RICHMAN, Director of National Television at the Media Agency OMD, was promoted to U.S. Director of National TV Buying. The position is a new one and assumes some of the duties of Dan Rank, the OMD Managing Partner who oversaw all broadcast buying and who is leaving to run ad sales for USA Network and its sister channels. Richman joined OMD in 1997 and in her most recent post, handled national TV buying for McDonald's, Clorox, Universal and Hershey, among other clients.

JEANNETTE McCLENNAN, President of OgilvyInteractive North America, is taking a personal leave starting this week. Carla Hendra, President of OgilvyOne North America, said that she will assume oversight and management of OgilvyInteractive in McClennan's absence. Hendra has also asked Jan Leth, Executive Creative Director of OgilvyInteractive North America, to take McClennan's seat on OgilvyOne and OgilvyInteractive's seven-person executive team. It is unknown if or when McClennan, who joined OgilvyInteractive in 1999 from i-shop Organic, will return to the New York-based interactive arm of Ogilvy & Mather. Hendra said there are no plans to replace her.

The Milwaukee office of Advertising, Boelter & Lincoln announced the recent addition of HEIDI HALPERIN to its media department. A recent graduate of Marquette University's College of Communications and Journalism, Halperin will work as a Media Traffic Coordinator, helping to manage both broadcast and print accounts.

SEAN FINN was named VP of Business Development at Fastclick.com, an online ad network reaching over 60 million monthly unique Internet users. Sean comes to Fastclick after positions in sales and bus dev at Ads360.com, Adsmart/Engage and AdPepper.

The Board of Directors of Gravitas International announced the appointment of JAMES RILEY, former President and COO of AdCritic.com, as the new President and CEO of Gravitas International Inc. Riley's appointment replaces the CEO capacity previously held by Larry Shaben, who remains Chairman of the Board. Riley has also assumed the position of President of Gravitas Digital Communications Inc., a position previously held by founder Kevin Hayden

Money magazine President DAVID KIESELSTEIN is taking a new position as President of Time Inc. Parenting Group, filling the vacancy left by Andy Sareyan, who recently moved to Entertainment Weekly. A Time Inc. spokesman confirmed that Chris Poleway, currently president of the Fortune Group, will take on the added responsiblities of the Money Group, which includes Money magazine and its CNN/Money.com partnership. Kieselstein had been at Money since 1999 and previously ran the consumer marketing and new ventures group at Fortune.

Over 250 jobs and possibly as many as 500 may be at stake as a new facility begins operation in Wilmington, Del. in January. So far, at least 15 people have been let go at Golf Digest Cos., one of seven magazine companies owned by Newhouse and his brother Donald through their parent company, Advance Publications Inc. The head-rolling was contained in a "warn letter" that the company was required to file with the Department of Labor in Connecticut. Other cuts are expected at Parade, the big money-making Sunday magazine inserted into newspapers; at Fairchild, publisher of W, Details and …

JENNIFER M. GONZALEZ has been named Account Supervisor for Suarez/Frommer & Associates, the Pasadena, CA-based Latino-focused integrated communications agency. Gonzalez most recently served as Senior Editor at Ask Jeeves, Inc., contributing to the Internet company's outreach efforts in the Spanish-speaking U.S. Hispanic market. A native of Mexico City, she previously edited IPI Magazine, a Mexican publication covering youth culture and music across Latin America, and was project manager for Lucent Technologies' Mexico City-based Global Translations Organization.