ADAM ROBERTS joined Insight Interactive Group, a full service interactive marketing communications agency serving the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, as associate media director, managing media planning, buying, trafficking and reporting. Roberts previously served as a freelance media director for STAR Group and Backe Communications. Also, CARA LEVINSON has joined the agency as director of strategic services and analytics. Prior to joining Insight Interactive Group, Levinson founded Levinson Marketing, a marketing and Internet consultancy.

MARYBETH PETERS has joined Finelight Strategic Marketing Communications as senior vice president of direct response and media development. Peters joins Finelight from Carat USA in Chicago where she was vice president, director of direct response media. At Finelight, She will head up the agency’s direct response television media planning and buying capability, and play a role in ongoing business development and strategic planning initiatives for Finelight’s Louisville office.

JIM ROSE, the North American chief executive for MPG, is leaving the company to pursue a management opportunity in Texas. In the interim, members of the MPG Management Team will continue to operate as before, reporting to FERNANDO RODES, global chief executive for MPG.

AlmondNet, a New York-based advertising technology company, has appointed MICHAEL KUBIN to its board of directors. Kubin is also the CEO of Ionic Marketing, a direct response marketing and media buying agency.

Avenue A | Razorfish has hired SARAH KIM as vice president of media for the agency’s East region. Kim comes from mOne Worldwide, where she was partner and group planning director managing a team of 19 and responsible for all online and direct media planning and execution, most notably for IBM.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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