Mark Clements Research has named KELLY SIRIMOGLU as managing director.

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.

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.

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.

Ad 2 has appointed BRIAN JONES as their new president and VALERIE MILKINS as the new vice president. Launched in August 2003, Ad 2 of Greater Fort Lauderdale, Fla. is a division of the Advertising Federation of Greater Fort Lauderdale, which serves as the local arm of the American Advertising Federation (AAF). Currently Jones holds an assistant account executive position at Zimmerman and Partners Advertising, where he works on the Papa John’s and BankAtlantic accounts. Milkins is a public relations account manager at Starmark International, a full-service marketing communications agency, where she manages the Ferretti Group USA and OmniPilot Software …

PRIMEDIA announced the addition and promotion of six executives in an effort to strengthen its International Automotive Group. HOWARD LIM was promoted to senior vice president and group publisher of the specialty and lifestyle tuner markets; KENNETH BEACH joins as senior vice president of national accounts; CHRIS KOBRAN was named vice president and publisher of the lowrider/urban markets; KENNY RUDOLPH joins as vice president of sales for the specialty and lifestyle tuner markets; MATTHEW INGBER was named vice president and general manager of digital media; and DAN BEDNAR was promoted to senior finance director.

Rapp Collins Worldwide has promoted ANNE MARIE SCHILLER to the new position of managing director in its Los Angeles office. Schiller will oversee all management, operations, and client services for the office. She was previously senior vice president, relationship manager, running strategic acquisition, loyalty, and customer management programs on behalf of current clients such as DirecTV, MCI, Philips Sonicare and others.

Horizon Media announced that STACEY MIZRACH has been promoted to assistant manager of the Local Broadcast Promotions Group, JAMIE BRATSLAVSKY joined the group as a promotions coordinator, KATIE GALLAGHER joined the Los Angeles office as an account executive and ANDRE ALFA joined the Los Angeles office as an assistant account executive.

ePrize has promoted IVAN FRANK to senior vice president of strategy and JACKIE TREPANIER to senior vice president of fulfillment services. Most recently Frank served as the head of business development for ePrize's Los Angeles office. Trepanier will be responsible for leading the prize fulfillment team, which handles winner concerns, user issues, and registering. Trepanier served previously as a senior project manager, where she led complex promotions including the palmOne Pays Back Program.

AKQA has hired ANDREW O'DELL as senior vice president. In this role, O'Dell is responsible for expanding AKQA's interactive advertising, Web development, and integrated marketing practice areas. Prior to joining AKQA, O’Dell spent four years as vice president of business development for Carat. Prior to that, he was a founder of Lot21, a digital marketing, media, and advertising agency.