JEFFREY SHIBATA has joined Horizon Media's West Coast Operation as a Media Planning Supervisor. Shibata will be responsible for overseeing the media planning for the agency’s IHOP, Sonic Automotive, Forest Lawn, Game Show Network and Factory 2-U accounts, among others. Shibata comes to Horizon from Mediacom, New York, where he was a Brand Media Manager, responsible for developing and executing national and local media objectives and strategies.

LISA MURRAY has been hired as Marketing Director of Entrepreneur Media. Murray will be responsible for overseeing marketing initiatives for the sales team and implementing branding campaigns for Entrepreneur magazine, Entrepreneur.com and Entrepreneur Press. Prior to owning a marketing consulting business, Murray was Director of Marketing for CMP's flagship trade newsweekly, CRN.

Marquis Jet has hired LISA SENTERS as its Vice President of Sales. Senters previously served as a Senior Vice President at Blue Star Jets, where she was part of the founding team. At Marquis Jet, her responsibilities will include running her own territory with an emphasis on the casino world, the travel industry and the art world.

LINDSAY RESNICK has joined Finelight Strategic Marketing Communications as Senior Vice President of Business Development. Prior to joining Finelight, Resnick was Chief Marketing Officer of HealthMarket, a Consumer Driven Health Plan.

Media Planning Group (MPG), Havas' media agency, has appointed DON EPPERSON and IGNASI BIOSCA (pictured) as the new Global CEO and COO of Media Contacts, MPG’s interactive arm. Epperson joined MPG in May 2001 as the President of MPG’s Media Contacts U.S. operations upon the acquisition of HookMedia. He was Founder and President of Hook Media, a digital media and data services company that developed Artemis, Media Contacts’ global reporting and analysis platform. Biosca joined Media Contacts in 1999 within the corporate team as Vice President responsible for Product Development and Expansion. In summer 2000 he became Managing Director of …

NetCreations, an email marketing solutions company, announced that JOHN TALIERICO will assume the post of Director of Client Services for its newly launched division SurveyDirect. Also joining the company is MARK GALLIHER as Account Manager for PostMasterDirect.