ANDREW FREEDMAN and MARK HOWARD have joined Forbes.com as Account Managers. Freedman will be based in New York, with responsibility for accounts in New York, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, Georgia and Florida. He joins Forbes.com from Advertising.com, where he was an Account Executive. Howard will be based in San Francisco, with accounts in the Bay Area and the Mountain states. He was most recently Western Sales and Development Manager at the G+J Business Innovator Group.

RICHARD (DICK) G. PORTER, a veteran magazine publisher who has worked for TV Guide, Reader’s Digest and Prevention Magazine, has joined American Profile Magazine and Publishing Group of America. Porter, who most recently served as Executive Vice President of Interactive Marketing Sales for AOL Time Warner, will serve as President of American Profile and Senior Vice President of Publishing for PGA.

RICK BOYKO, Chief Creative Officer of WPP Group's Ogilvy & Mather North America and Co-President of Ogilvy, New York, will retire from the agency next year to become the Managing Director of the Adcenter at Virginia Commonwealth University. Boyko has been the Chief Creative for Ogilvy North America for 14 years. Bill Gray, Co-president of Ogilvy, New York, will assume sole management.

The Los Angeles Direct Marketing Association has named LEON POTASINSKI, SVP, Director Marketing Services for La Agencia de Orcí & Asociados, as its newest board member. A native of Venezuela, Potasinski has 22 years of marketing, advertising and media experience in the Hispanic market. He broke into the Hispanic marketing and advertising field in New York with Conill Advertising in 1980. Over the years he has also been associated with Sosa & Associates in San Antonio and Bermudez & Associates in Los Angeles.

SHANNON SULLIVAN joins NYCA as a Media Supervisor. She formerly worked on Nike and Alta Vista accounts for Wieden+Kennedy, Portland. At NYCA, Sullivan will plan and buy media for all accounts, including TaylorMade golf clubs, Maxfli golf balls and SignOnSanDiego.com.

STACIE UCHIDA joins NYCA as an Account Executive. Previously Uchida worked for two online agencies in San Francisco. She will work on The San Diego Union-Tribune and SignOnSanDiego.com accounts.

Range Online Media has hired ERIC CLARK as Vice President of Media. Prior to joining the Fort Worth-based interactive marketer, Clark was marcom manager of Internet media for Radioshack.

Jumpstart Digital Marketing, Inc., an interactive media sales, marketing and technology company, has hired ERNEST "SKIP" ESCH to be Director of Sales & Strategy, a new position in the company's Local Advertising Sales Division. Esch comes to Jumpstart Digital Marketing from AOL Time Warner Inc. where, mostly recently, he was Senior Manager, Automotive-Local Partnership Group, based in New York.

PRIMEDIA Inc., a targeted media company, announced that SABRINA WEILL has been named Editor-In-Chief of Seventeen. Weill most recently held the title of Executive Editor at CosmoGIRL!, published by the Hearst Corporation.