Media Bridge Entertainment, a product placement company created by deutschMedia and iTVX, has named TAL SALOMON as director of sales and marketing development. Salomon will be responsible for mining and exploring product placement opportunities. Most recently, Salomon was partner, group media director at Lowe New York and has also worked in media capacities at DDB/Needham, Bozell, Hakuhodo and Backer Spielvogel Bates.

JASON MADRAK has been named research director for PARADE Publications, and will focus on research and media analysis for the magazine. Madrak was previously director of media research for The Wall Street Journal. Also at PARADE, ELIZABETH ALLERTON has joined its New York sales department as an account executive. Allerton comes to the magazine from Submitnet, where she was vice president of marketing.

InQ has named DAN DATO senior vice president/sales and marketing. Dato will oversee new business development for the company. He was previously managing director of The Motley Fool UK and was responsible for the overall strategy and performance of the company.

T3 (The Think Tank) has named ROBYN JEHL print operations director. Jehl comes to T3 from VoxGroup where she worked as an account director.

Time Inc.’s Health magazine has promoted JUDY SAGE to executive beauty director, and JAIME AVERSA has been appointed account manager. Most recently, Sage was beauty director at Health, a position she held since 2001. Previously, Aversa was an account manager at Natural Health magazine. Prior to that, she worked in advertising sales at Shape and Fit Pregnancy magazines.

Tango, a new relationship-focused magazine set to launch this February, has hired JENNIFER HEDGES as southwest advertising director.

icrossing has hired MAURA LEWIS as director of analytics. Most recently, Lewis served as senior project manager with the Advertising Effectiveness Research group at AOL.

Former Leo Burnett executive TROY RUHANEN has joined BBDO North America as executive vice president and managing director, a new position. Ruhanen will lead the Cingular Wireless account. Most recently, Ruhanen was executive vice president and managing director at Leo Burnett Worldwide where he also ran Burnett’s agency in Sydney, Australia.

JONATHAN KLEIN has joined the CNN News Group as president of CNN/U.S. Klein will oversee CNN’s domestic news network, creating programming and shaping the editorial tone and direction of CNN/U.S. Klein joins CNN from The FeedRoom Inc., where he served as founder and chief executive officer of the broadband news network. PRINCELL HAIR, who had served as executive vice president and general manager of CNN/U.S., is assuming a new role as senior vice president of program and talent development.

Eyeblaster has named DOUG MCFARLAND to its Board of Directors. McFarland will focus on strategic initiatives and operations across the company’s current and forthcoming product offerings. For the past two years, McFarland was the executive vice president and general manager of Advertising.com, responsible for the development of the company’s publisher business.