• JUDY BARRY
    JUDY BARRY, vice president, marketing and business development, has been promoted to senior vice president, sales and marketing, at the Wall Street Journal. Barry will succeed SCOTT SCHULMAN, who was promoted to vice president, chief strategy officer at Dow Jones, the Journal’s parent company. In her new role, Barry will be responsible for the Journal’s global advertising sales, marketing, and services operations.
  • JOHN MCDERMOTT
    The Leslie Agency, founded in 1959 as Leslie Advertising, has changed its name to The Bounce Agency. In a move to streamline Bounce, JOHN MCDERMOTT the agency’s creative director, has been named the new president of Bounce. DAVE CHESSON is vice chairman and chief financial officer.
  • DAMON BETHEL
    DAMON BETHEL joined Real Branding as associate media director in the New York office from EarthQuake Media. Damon will assist in East Coast expansion, integration with the traditional agency counterparts on key accounts and overseeing activities of Real Branding's New York media department. Also joining the Real Branding New York team is SARA STEIN as interactive account director. Previously, she held senior account roles at Grey Interactive & Agency.com.
  • MARY JO ROMEO
    BabyCenter has named MARY JO ROMEO as publisher of BabyCenter magazine. The former publisher of Parents, former vice president, publisher of Working Mother Media, and onetime ad director of American Baby Group, Romeo will work to expand BabyCenter's presence with key advertisers. She joins BabyCenter after working as vice president regional manager for The Weather Channel.
  • JASON SCOGGINS
    Jumpstart Digital Marketing has promoted two of it senior executives: JASON SCOGGINS from vice president, national ad sales to senior vice president, national ad sales and ROB BOLLINGER from director, dealer sales division to senior vice president, dealer sales division.
  • JON SWALLEN
    TNS Media Intelligence (TNS MI) announced that JON SWALLEN has been promoted to the newly created position of senior vice president of research. Swallen will continue to oversee the company’s methods and procedures for advertising expenditure monitoring and will continue to be responsible for TNS MI’s industry advertising forecasts.Prior to joining TNS MI, Swallen held the title of director of media knowledge at Universal McCann.
  • SANDY MCGILL
    SANDY MCGILL joins the Advertising Council in the newly created position of vice president, market development. McGill works directly with local and regional broadcast, cable, print, outdoor/transit, alternative media, and advertising organizations to secure support for Ad Council PSAs. McGill joins the Ad Council from the programming and media company LOOK TV, where he was a partner. Prior to that, he was vice president of business development, Global Education Network.
  • DANA TOWER
    DANA TOWER joins Accipiter as the new director of East Coast sales. Tower comes to Accipiter from Corbis, having served as the director of East Coast sales and global market development. RANDY GREY joins the company as director of West Coast sales. Most recently, Grey was with Clear Channel Communications Inc. as an account executive. Prior to Clear Channel, Grey served as the Western regional sales manager for Avaki, an enterprise software company. 
  • PATRICK CALLINAN
    Hill, Holliday has named PATRICK CALLINAN as senior vice president of strategic analysis in the agency’s Boston office. Callinan will be responsible for analytic consulting (both internally and externally) and will focus on providing quantitative consulting service to the agency’s technology and biotechnology clients. Prior to joining Hill, Holliday, Callinan served as a lecturer at the University of Limerick in Ireland where he taught statistics and economics on the MBA and MBS programs.
  • T.J. BENNETT
    T.J. BENNETT and BILL GRAHAM have been tapped to work together on Draft New York's Verizon account. They join the agency from Wunderman where they worked on the AT&T account. They have both been named creative supervisors, with Graham serving as senior art director and Bennett as senior copywriter. Bennett and Graham have worked jointly on numerous clients, including AT&T, Colgate, Kraft, Microsoft, MetLife, Sony, and Zyrtec.
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