The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has elected new members to its Board of Directors. For continuity, one third of the Board of Directors is elected each year, with Officers holding three-year terms. The new Board Members are: TIM ARMSTRONG - Vice President, Advertising Sales-Google Inc. JOANNE BRADFORD - VP & Chief Media Revenue Officer -MSN, Microsoft Corp. JASON DEVITT - CEO – Vindigo. WILLIAM K. FURLONG - Founder, President & CEO - B2B Works, Inc. ROBERT GOLDBERG - SVP, Sales, Marketing and International Operations – LookSmart. MARK MARIANI - President Sales & Marketing - SportsLine.com. JAVIER SARALEGUI - President - …

Wolff Olins, one of the world’s leading brand consultancies and a part of the Omnicom Group, announced the appointment of DEAN CRUTCHFIELD as its US Director of Marketing. Prior to joining Wolff Olins, Crutchfield held various senior marketing and business development posts at Michael Peters, Luxon Carra and Landor Associates. He has worked on a wide spectrum of corporate, retail and consumer brands in the Middle East, Europe, the United States and Asia, including BP, Shell, Nomura, McKinsey, Kraft Jacob Suchard, Warburg Pincus and Smirnoff.

AOL Time Warner said Tuesday that JAMES DE CASTRO, President of AOL Interactive Services, is leaving the company after seven months "to seek new opportunities." During his tenure at AOL, de Castro established a new programming strategy built around firsts and exclusives, community and appointment viewing. He also helped launch AOL 8.0.

PETER KLINGE, the former New Business Development Director at Euro RSCG Interaction, has been named Chief Marketing Officer, Global Business Development Director at Euro RSCG Circle. Previously, Klinge worked at a number of New York shops, including Grey Advertising, Lintas, BBDO, and Ammirati Puris Lintas on such accounts as Warner Brothers Pictures, IBM, Pepsi-Cola and Compaq.

Former CBS President of network sales Joe Abruzzese, who recently became President of Ad Sales at Discovery Networks, has lured CBS' top sports sales executive to Discovery. SCOTT MCGRAW joins as Executive Vice President of Ad Sales for Discovery Networks, U.S. McGraw was Executive Vice President, Network Sports Sales and Marketing at CBS since November 2001. He had been considered a leading contender to replace Abruzzese at CBS, but the job went to Joann Ross, formerly executive vice president of sales.

Interpublic Group of Cos. named FRANK J. BORELLI Presiding Director, a new board post responsible for liaising between the board and management. Borelli, who retired in 2000 as Chief Financial Officer of Financial Services firm Marsh & McLennan Cos., has been an Interpublic board member since 1995 and chairs the audit committee.

PAGE THOMPSON, OMD USA's Chief Strategy Officer, was named CEO of OMD North America. He will be replaced by MONICA KARO, Managing Director of OMD West, who will remain in that position. Thompson will oversee all OMD operations in the U.S. and Canada and will also join the Worldwide Board of OMD.

NIKKI HOBIN joins Leo Burnett/Sydney as Head of the Promotional Marketing Division. Hobin comes to the agency from The Marketing Store where she was a client services director.

Clear Channel Communications, Inc., announced that ANDREW W. LEVIN will join the company as Senior Vice President, Government Relations. Levin, an attorney and CPA, comes to Clear Channel after spending the previous seven years as Minority Counsel to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, where he was Chief Telecommunications Advisor to Ranking Member John D. Dingell and counsel to Democratic members of the Committee on all communications policy and technology matters.

DAVID PEELER, the President and Chief Executive at Competitive Media Reporting in New York, a division of Taylor Nelson Sofres that tracks ad spending in major media, has left the company. Peeler joined CMR as a Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Agency/Advertiser Group in 1995 and became President and Chief Executive in 2000. The company said yesterday that Peeler was succeeded, effective immediately, by STEVEN J. FREDERICKS, who had been President and Chief Executive at JassNet, formerly Yack Inc., an Internet program guide in New York.