Court TV ad sales account executive MEGAN GORMLEY has been named director of advertising sales in the Detroit DMI for Court TV. She will be responsible for creating and building new relationships with clients.

JAYSON FUGAL has joined National Geographic Adventure magazine as account manager. Fugal will be responsible for managing the import automotive, consumer electronics and photography categories. Fugal was most recently account executive on the BMW motorcycle account at Merkley and Partners in New York.

GM Planworks, a General Motors-dedicated media planning unit within Starcom MediaVest Group, is promoting MARY CARPENTER to executive vice president/chief operating officer of the company. Carpenter currently oversees all operational aspects of the company, including human resources, finance, systems, internal product development, and the organization’s continuing best practices initiative. Carpenter began her career in 1987 as a buyer/planner at Starcom USA for Procter & Gamble, Starkist, Heinz, and Hallmark before taking over the agency’s Oldsmobile account.

PartnerCentric, an Internet marketing agency specializing in building and developing affiliate programs for e-commerce companies, announced that MICHAEL BUMP and LAURA SCHNEIDER have joined the company. Bump will be working as business development manager and Schneider as operations manager.

Meredith Corporation announced that LAUREN BUERGER has been named to the newly established position of associate publisher for More magazine. Buerger was most recently the Midwest director of Gourmet, managing the magazine's Chicago ad sales office. This move represents a return to Meredith for Buerger, who formerly served as marketing director for the company's Integrated Marketing division.

SALLY PRESTON, associate publisher of O, The Oprah Magazine, has been named vice president, publisher of Rodale Inc.’s Organic Style. As publisher, Preston will be responsible for further developing and broadening the overall advertising sales mix of categories for Organic Style. In addition, she will oversee the advertising sales efforts for Rodale flagship title Organic Gardening.

Global interactive marketing agency AKQA has hired MOLLY PARSLEY as its marketing and PR manager. She comes to AKQA from Carat Interactive.

TBWA Worldwide has appointed BRETT GOSPER, currently general manager of McCann Erickson New York, as president, TBWA New York Group. TBWA also announced that TOM CARROLL, currently president of the Americas, will be promoted to the position of vice-chairman. Prior to joining McCann in 2003, Gosper was CEO of Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper in London since 1995.

JUDIT NAGY has been named director of global market research for the worldwide media and entertainment company Neopets. Prior to joining Neopets, Nagy spent five years as a senior market research manager with Yahoo! She was responsible for Yahoo!'s advertising and media sales strategy for North America, focusing on the development of innovative marketing solutions for the online marketing strategies of Fortune 500 clients.

Young Broadcasting Inc. elected REID MURRAY to the company's board of directors. Murray replaces BERNARD F. CURRY who has retired after 10 years on the board.