Global creative agency ATTIK has hired RACHEL NEWELL to serve as new business manager, a newly created position. Prior to joining ATTIK, Newell served as business development manager for McDougall Creative, Inc., where she streamlined the sales process and helped establish a number of key accounts.

GREGG H. LIEBMAN has joined Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.) as vice president of CNN ad sales research. In his new role, Liebman is charged with leading staff research analyses and strategy support for the CNN News Group ad sales function, which includes CNN/U.S., CNN Headline News, CNNfn, CNN.com and other CNN-branded news networks and services.

SIRIUS Satellite Radio has named TOLA MURPHY- BARAN as senior vice president, marketing. Murphy-Baran will be responsible for subscriber acquisition and retention, direct and online marketing and all sports marketing and promotion. Murphy-Baran most recently held the position of senior vice president of market development at the National Football League.

Also at Draft,JONATHAN SACKETT has joined the Chicago office in the newly created post of vice president, director of digital strategy. Sackett is working with MICHAEL DAVIS, vice president and director of emerging media at Draft Chicago, to integrate interactive and emerging media into the marketing mix of Draft's clients. Sackett joins Draft from the Townsend Agency where, as vice president, director of interactive services, he founded the agency's interactive division.

KELLIE WATT has been named marketing services manager at DJG Marketing. Watt joins DJG from Conde Nast, where she served as marketing manager on Vogue magazine. Prior to working at Conde Nast, Watt worked at Hachette/Filipacchi, where she was initially research manager in the Hachette Corporate Group and then marketing manager at Elle.

STACEY SMITH, of Charter Homes, has been promoted to director of marketing. Smith has been with the company for six years and spearheads all of its marketing and media efforts. Prior to joining Charter Homes, Smith was director of member services for the York Builder's Association.

DAVID NAPIOR has joined Mediamark Research Inc. as senior vice president of research. Prior to joining MRI, Napior worked for 18 years in various senior technical positions at Roper Starch Worldwide and Roper/ASW (now part of NOPWorld), including technical director, chief research officer and chief information officer.

City Business Journals Network (CBJN) has appointed LINDA J. HOOPER to its New York sales office as national sales manager. Hooper will handle tech and law firm advertising sales for the 67 local and regional business publications that comprise CBJN's parent company, American City Business Journals. Most recently, she worked for CMP Media as account director - Northeast for the company's Network Computing, Network Magazine, and Intelligent Enterprise magazines.

Bennett Kuhn Varner, Inc. named TRACY DODD as account executive and AARON HITE as interactive media assistant. Dodd brings eight years of international marketing, direct response and advertising experience. She was most recently the marketing communications manager for Seagull Software Systems, where she was responsible for the worldwide advertising, direct marketing and promotion efforts. Hite was most recently employed as a marketing assistant for MBT International.

ILONA NEMETH has been named general manager for DoubleClick’s rich media ad-serving business. Prior to this role, she held positions managing the global accounts sales team and spearheading DoubleClick's financial communications. Before joining DoubleClick she worked in business development for AlliedSignal (now Honeywell), where she was responsible for strategic planning and acquisitions in high-growth Electronic Materials businesses.