Atlantic Media has promoted FRED KUHN to managing director of Government Executive, its monthly business magazine serving senior executives and managers in the federal government. A five-year Government Executive veteran, Kuhn previously worked as director of advertising. Prior to that, he spent six years at Federal Computer Week.

TV One, the network for African-American adults, has announced three appointments to its ad sales team. LISABETH HAYES has been named regional vice president of ad sales, overseeing the network’s Midwest and West Coast sales offices. Previously, she spent nine years with HGTV in Chicago, where she most recently had been senior vice president of advertising sales, managing the company’s regional sales offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit and Atlanta. CLIFF BROWN has been named regional vice president of ad sales, based in TV One’s New York office. Previously, he was vice president of media sales for Warner …

Giant Ideas has named DENNIS BROWN as vice president of business development. Brown was a co-founder and former principal of Bradley Brown Design Group. Most recently, he was director of business development for Scott Pipitone Design.

Scholastic has named MARY MITCHELL to senior vice president, strategic marketing for Scholastic Education. Mitchell was most recently a senior partner and client services director for OgilvyOne advertising agency in New York, where she was responsible for global clients such as Cisco, SAP, Kimberly Clark and Unilever.

Ryan Partnership has added MIKE STOPPER as managing director in its Dallas office. Stopper joins the agency from Euro RSCG Retail, where he was vice president, group account director.

PHILIPPE BERNARD has been named president, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Initiative. Bernard succeeds SERGIO LORCA, Initiative's chief operating officer, EMEA. Bernard was previously president, Europe, at Lowe & Partners Worldwide.

BusinessWeek Online has named SUSAN UNGER as an account manager. Unger’s responsibilities include advertising sales in New York and the New England states. Unger comes to BusinessWeek Online from Terra Lycos, where she was an account manager. While there, she was selling integrated online marketing programs to large companies in the business & finance, pharmaceutical and technology sectors.

DANA DEIGHTON has been appointed promotion director of National Geographic Kids. Deighton joined the publication in 2000 and was most recently marketing manager. Deighton will identify sponsorship and promotional opportunities for National Geographic Kids and participate in acquiring new business.

LastMinuteTravel.com has named BOB SACCO as Northwest regional manager. Sacco is charged with overseeing sales for LastMinuteTravel.com on the client and agency level. Most recently, he served as director of sales for the San Francisco Chronicle and SFGate.com.

Responsys Inc. announced that former Modem Media executive DAN SPRINGER has joined the company as its chief executive officer. As managing director in the San Francisco office of Modem Media, Springer was responsible for general management of the agency's Western United States operations.