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ContextWeb Inc., a provider of real-time contextual advertising, has named BILL WISE to its board of directors. Wise will have a strategic leadership and advisory role on the board as the company continues to grow from a technology business to a full-scale media corporation. Since 2002 Wise has been the chief operating officer of MaxOnline, a division of Ask Jeeves. Before joining MaxOnline he was the vice president of business strategy and direct marketing for DoubleClick’s North American Media Network.
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REVShare, television’s broker of performance-based advertising, has added ADAM WARREN to its management team, as vice president of network development, in an effort to expand the company’s pay-per-call network. Previously, Warren developed the direct response division at TeleRep, a national television ad sales firm.
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JIMMY SMITH has joined BBDO New York as an executive creative director. Smith comes to BBDO from Wieden + Kennedy where he created television advertising for Nike. He will divide his time between New York and Los Angeles.
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REI INAMOTO has joined AKQA as global creative director, responsible for delivering creative solutions to the agency's international clients such as Nike and Xbox. He will initially join the newly formed New York office. Inamoto most recently served as the executive creative director for R/GA, where he worked on accounts such as Nike, Purina, CableVision, and Reuters' digital signage project in Times Square.
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DANIELLE BOTTARI has been promoted to advertising director at Max Custom Media (formerly m@x Racks), responsible for overseeing the national sales team as well as the launch of its new event marketing division, MaxBuzz. Prior to joining Max Custom Media as account manager, she was the partner, group director for Mindshare’s WOW Factory where she spent seven years managing accounts such as American Express Global, IBM Worldwide, Starwood, Kodak, GTE Wireless, and Kraft.
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MARK PAPIA (pictured), formerly sales vice president at Intermix Media, has been promoted to senior vice president. Papia’s role within the company will expand to include sales of both branded- and performance-based media and oversight of all marketing and PR initiatives. Prior to joining Intermix in July, Papia was in strategic alliances and sales at Yahoo! and Monster. Intermix also announced that COREY FRIEDMAN has joined the company as sales vice president for the Eastern region. Friedman, who will be headquartered in New York City, was a former Yahoo! sales manager. STACEY PEAR, also formerly with Yahoo! in New York, …
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According to Advertising Age,PAUL SILBURN has been named executive creative director at Fallon Worldwide. He was the deputy creative director of TBWA, London.
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TEEN PEOPLE has tapped MANNY FUENTES as its new associate publisher. Most recently, Fuentes served as advertising director at Elle Girl.
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PointRoll has named PETER JOHNSON as director of account management. He will be responsible for leading PointRoll's account management group. Prior to PointRoll, Johnson was manager of Eyeblaster's Agency Services Team. While there, he was responsible for strategic and daily management of all creative and media agency accounts that work with the Eyeblaster rich media tool.
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Mediaedge:cia has named JON ANTHONY ESPEJO as a communications manager in its Chicago office. Formerly with Starcom Worldwide, Espejo will provide strategic planning insights to the development of communication plans for Barilla and Jim Beam accounts.