• NORB SEUFERT: NYCA
    NORB SEUFERT joined ad agency NYCA as an Account Supervisor on the TaylorMade Golf account. A 17-year ad veteran, Seufert comes to NYCA with experience in the cereal, footwear and golf industries.
  • RICK OSTER, NEIL VISERTO, LISA PALMER, & JANET GOODIN:Adlink
    Adlink announced the restructuring of their executive sales team. Their new staff includes RICK OSTER, Vice President and General Sales Manager; NEIL VISERTO, Vice President, Adlink Sports; LISA PALMER, Local Sales Manager and JANET GOODIN, Local Sales Manager. Oster is responsible for leading and directing the Adlink sales staff. Previously, Oster was the National/Local Sales Manager at KTTV-TV/KCOP-TV in Los Angeles. Viserto recently left the Washington Redskins as Vice President, Broadcast & Marketing, to spearhead the Adlink Sports sales and marketing division. Palmer and Goodin will manage Adlink's local sales account executives and oversee their sales initiatives within the Los …
  • KERRY BRIX: Tocquigny Advertising
    KERRY BRIX, has joined Tocquigny Advertising, Interactive + Marketing in the newly created position of Senior Director - Business Development. Brix was recently consulting with game and technology companies in San Francisco and Austin. He previously led the national sales efforts for Human Code in Austin, TX for 4 years prior to its acquisition by Sapient Corp.
  • CHRIS MCMILLEN: PRIMEDIA Inc.
    PRIMEDIA Inc. announced that CHRIS MCMILLEN has been named Publisher of Stitches and Wearables Business magazines. McMillen has more than 13 years of experience in sales, management and business development, and is in his 4th year within the publishing industry. Prior to joining the apparel group, He served as national sales manager until promoted to associate publisher of PRIMEDIA's Stitches and Wearables Business in October 2001.
  • DAN MOHLER: Fandango
    Fandango, Inc., has named DAN MOHLER vice president of sales. Mohler is responsible for increasing revenues through strategic partnerships with major national advertisers, and brings more than 20 years of sales and sales management experience in traditional and non-traditional media. Prior to joining Fandango, Mohler was director of sales for the Western Region of the Ticketmaster Media Group.
  • DAVID BELL & JOHN DOONER: Interpublic Group
    Interpublic Group vice chairman DAVID BELL was named chairman and CEO, replacing JOHN DOONER, who will resume his role as worldwide CEO of McCann-Erickson WorldGroup, a role he held prior to moving to IPG in January 2001.
  • MARK LEVY: Radio Advertising Bureau
    MARK LEVY, a twenty-year Radio sales and management veteran, has joined the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) as Director, Educational Services. Levy is responsible for the sales and marketing of the RAB Training Academy in Dallas along with the Professional Development Series (PDS) training videos. Levy was previously General Manager of SunMedia Systems, and served as General Manager for stations in Youngstown and Canton, Ohio and Fayetteville and Texarkana, Arkansas.
  • KURT RITTER & ROGER ADAMS:General Motors Corp.
    General Motors Corp. announced that two top vehicle division chiefs’ positions would be changing. KURT RITTER, currently marketing general manager of Chevrolet, will now become general manager of the Buick and Pontiac-GMC divisions, and ROGER ADAMS, currently marketing general manager of Buick, becomes general manager of the GM Customer Network, which handles customer relationship management.
  • DAVID SABLE & BARRY KESSEL:Wunderman
    DAVID SABLE (pictured) has been named vice chairman and president of Wunderman's worldwide operations. Sable will provide strategic counsel to Wunderman's global clients including IBM, Citibank and Kraft. BARRY KESSEL, president and managing director of Wunderman New York, will succeed Sable.
  • ROY GRACE
    ROY GRACE, an award-winning advertising art director who created Alka-Seltzer’s famous "spicy meatball" ads in the 1960s-70s, has died at age 66 of prostate cancer. Grace worked at Doyle Dane Bernbach, now DDB Worldwide, for 22 years of his four decades in the business, and won at least 28 Clio awards for his commercials.
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