Fry Hammond Barr has opened an office in St. Petersburg, Fla. to serve the Tampa Bay operations of Bright House Networks as well as new client opportunities. SHARON O’KEEFE was hired to serve as the vice president in charge of Tampa operations.

CMD has added DAN SWANSON as creative director to help lead the advertising creative team. Swanson was most recently a creative director for H, an agency in San Jose, Calif.

SEAN FINNEGAN, formerly Midwest director of OMD Digital, has been named director of OMD Digital in the United States. In this role, Finnegan will oversee OMD’s U.S. digital media efforts in providing strategic services ranging from search engine marketing and cross-platform promotions to interactive television and gaming for its clients’ brands. Finnegan joined OMD in 2002 from Tribal DDB where he was media director of the Chicago office.

Draft New York has tapped two new vice presidents at the agency. LAURA GUERRA has joined as vice president, account director, while MELISSA SIEGEL has joined as vice president, group production director. Most recently, Guerra was vice president, account director at Grey E Marketing (recently merged into Grey Direct), where she managed accounts for Chase Manhattan, CheapTickets, and Bell South. Siegel arrives after more than nine years at OgilvyOne, where she most recently served as vice president, executive print producer.

Budget Living has added three new hires to its staff. EVE BERCOVICI has been named beauty and fashion director, AMANDA CASGAR as marketing director, and IDALIE FERNANDEZ as account manager.

THOMAS FURLONG has been named associate media director at Cossette Post. Most recently, Furlong was responsible for strategy development and buying for The Silverman Group in New Haven, Conn. and the PGA Tour’s Buick Championship.

The Advertising Council announced that BARBARA LESHINSKY has joined the organization as executive vice president, development. Leshinsky will oversee the strategic planning and implementation of all organizational fundraising activities as well as the management of the organization’s 94-member board of directors. Prior to joining the Ad Council, she served as associate dean for institutional advancement at New York Law School.

NANCY STEINFELD has joined Regal CineMedia as an account director in the company’s West Coast Sales office located in Los Angeles. Previously, she was the West Coast advertising director for Premier Magazine.

Empower MediaMarketing announced that BRAD BROWN and MELISSA WRIGHT have joined the agency as account supervisor and account manager, respectively. Brown joins Empower from Euro RSCG Tatham & Partners/MPG, where he was account director for the Red Lobster Restaurants account. Wright joins Empower from Professional Education Company, Inc., where she spent five years as director of marketing and e-commerce.

Ipsos has named CURT STENGER as vice president of analytics for the Ipsos-Insight Consumer Products Division. Most recently, Stenger was vice president of marketing sciences at Research International where he managed all Marketing Sciences resources.