Astea International Inc. announced the appointment of MARIKIT KLEIN-SMITH to vice president of Marketing. Klein-Smith will lead the company's strategic marketing programs, including branding initiatives, product marketing and marketing communications. Most recently, She worked as a strategic marketing consultant for Full Circle Communications where she developed messaging, positioning and marketing strategies for clients in the high-tech sector. Earlier in her career, she served as director of corporate communications at SAP America where she developed and managed corporate internal and external communications programs for the U.S. and Canada.

Lifetime Entertainment Services has named TRICIA MELTON as vice president, marketing. Melton will oversee consumer marketing, ad sales marketing, affiliate marketing and synergy marketing for Lifetime Television, Lifetime Movie Network and Lifetime Real Women. Melton joins Lifetime from Oxygen Media, where she had been vice president, marketing, since 1999, in charge of consumer and affiliate marketing.

PROMAX&BDA has announced the cable nominees for the new PROMAX&BDA Board, representing a full spectrum of today's top electronic media promotion and marketing talent. Nominees include E! Networks' senior vice president of marketing & brand director GAVIN HARVEY; (left) executive vice president and general manager of TV Land and Nick At Nite, LARRY JONES; Lifetime Television's senior vice president and executive creative director GARY LOGUE; BRIGITTE MCCRAY (right), senior vice president of programming & scheduling for Oxygen Media; and STEPHEN ARNOLD, composer and Founder of Stephen Arnold Music. Installations of the new board members takes place June 4-6 at The …

The Zipatoni Co. announced that KAREN SAUDER and SCOTT BLANTON have been named partners at the agency. Sauder is account director for Miller Brewing Company. In this position, she leads a client team of more than 50 people in St. Louis and Milwaukee. Before joining Zipatoni in 1998, Sauder worked for Frito-Lay as Regional Sales Manager. Blanton joined Zipatoni five years ago as part of a new team to secure new business and grow existing client relationships. Today, Blanton serves as senior creative director. In addition to his account responsibilities, Blanton manages the overall direction, identity, and voice of the …

ANN SIEGEL has joined time & SPACE, a media buying service in Los Angeles, as VP/General Manager. Siegel began her career at FCB, and has also worked at Warwick Advertising and then at O&M. Most recently, she worked at MediaVest running the DirecTV account.

NOAH ROBINSON has recently accepted a position as Advertising Sales Executive for Choice Media. Prior to working as a business development and marketing consultant, Robinson was with Beyond Interactive where he oversaw GlaxoSmithKline’s Consumer Healthcare interactive planning/buying efforts, served as Regional Media Director and co-founder of Beyond Interactive’s Brazil office. Robinson will be responsible for agency relationships and accounts for Choice Media.

Euro RSCG announced the appointment of JODI COPPERNOLL as Director of Business Development. Coppernoll's responsibilities include directing the business development process for Tatham Partners and working closely with business development leaders in each of the agency’s offices. She will also serve as a key liaison with the Euro RSCG Worldwide network business. Most recently, Coppernoll was Director of Business Development at Kirshenbaum and Bond.

Deutsch Inc. has hired five new employees across various agency departments. DEBORAH MEISSNER (left) has joined the company as Vice President, Account Director, and previously worked at Foote, Cone & Belding in New York, where she had developed multiple eCRM programs as well as digital and direct marketing components for Samsung, Clairol and Cablevision. STEPHEN MURPHY has been named Vice President, Customer and Data Strategy, and is focusing on Deutsch clients like Burger King, MCI, Novartis and Starwood Hotels. Murphy was most recently Director of Database Marketing at Modem Media where he was responsible for tracking and analyzing online programs …

The Broadcast Productions Department at Deutsch Inc. in New York has also made some promotional changes. BRUCE ANDREINI, KAREN LEIPER, and NICOLE LUNDY have been named Senior Producers, promoted from Producers. Andreini has previously worked on a wide variety of accounts at Deutsch, including Verizon SuperPages, IKEA and Pfizer's Zyrtec and Zoloft brands. Prior to Deutsch Leiper worked at Korey Kay and Partners on Celebrity Cruises, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and Comedy Central. Lundy joined Deutsch in 1995 and has worked on clients including Almay, Snapple, Mitchum, Novartis' Zelnorm and GNC. Prior to Deutsch she worked at BWA.

MEL GREVE and NESO MALINOVIC have joined Kelly, Scott & Madison as Vice President/Broadcast Director and Associate Media Director respectively. Greve was formerly Broadcast Director at Initiative Media for three years, and she also held the position of Broadcast Supervisor at both Initiative Media and EURO RSCG Tatham/Chicago. Malinovic was formerly with Mindshare and Ogilvy & Mather.