Agency veterans MICHAEL BENES and HARRY CHAPIN have formed FORGE Worldwide, a marketing communication firm headquartered in Wellesley, Mass. Chapin will be president of the firm and Benes will serve as creative director. Prior to joining forces, Benes was founder and creative director of Benes Brand Imaging. Chapin has worked for companies including Hill/Holiday and Pamet River Partners.

ANDRES LAHOZ has been named director of sales and marketing for PopSci.com. Lahoz is charged with directing sales development for Popular Science’s recently redesigned Web site. He will be responsible for forging partnerships, expanding the site’s roster of online advertisers, and working with the Popular Science editorial team to develop and sell new content areas. Most recently, Lahoz worked at Hearst Magazines, where he was consumer marketing manager forthe Popular Mechanics Web site, PMZone.com.

Traditional Home named MITCHELL OWENS as the magazine’s New York-based senior interior design editor. Previously, Owens was the interior design director at ELLE Décor.

Quris has named GERILYN BORN as vice president of information technology. Born will lead Quris's customer data protection, fraud management, and e-mail deliverability management programs. Prior to joining Quris, Born served as director of information security at CoBank, a financial services firm.

Omnicom Group's LLKFB has changed its name to Unit 7. Joining the newly named agency are: JOE CUPANI, formerly head of creative for Ogilvy One and Wunderman, who is charged with leading a creative team; MARK KLAPPER, formerly group planning director for Wunderman, will lead a team of planners, psychologists, and analysts; ANDY ACAMPORA, will serve as chief financial officer. Lastly, LITA SANDS, who headed Pfizer's relationship marketing group, has joined the agency in the new role of chief client services director.

Discovery Networks, U.S. has named MARY CREGAN account executive, Southeast sales region, advertising sales. Cregan joins Discovery from The Walt Disney Company in Atlanta, where she served as account manager, media and marketing partnerships for ABC Radio Networks/Radio Disney. In this role, Cregan was responsible for the sales and service of Radio Disney and RadioDisney.com to agencies and clients throughout the Southeast.

In order to support the recent move of the Cartoon Network's branded merchandising business to Cartoon Network Enterprises from Warner Bros. Consumer Products, some operational changes have been made. KIM MCQUILKEN will add oversight of all Cartoon Network Enterprises licensing and merchandising activity to his current responsibilities in the new position of executive vice president of kids advertising sales and marketing and Cartoon Network Enterprises. In addition to his new responsibilities with Cartoon Network Enterprises, McQuilken will continue to oversee Cartoon Network's promotions marketing and kids ad sales. JOHN FRIEND, senior vice president of Cartoon Network Enterprises, will have …

TM Advertising has created a new organizational structure to help address its clients' challenges in an ever-changing media environment. Named the Integrated Communications Group, it will be headed by JAMES HERING, director of integrated marketing, a new position. Also taking new roles in the Integrated Communications Group are FRANNY KARKOSAK as director of media integration and SHERYL STANDIFER as media director.

Dotglu has named ARIC CHESTON as associate creative director, interactive. In this role, Cheston will oversee online creative development at Dotglu, a kirshenbaum bond partner company. Cheston will also lead Dotglu's new media concepting team, The Superfriends.

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, a national law and consulting firm, has named LISA C. ROVINSKY as a partner. Previously, Rovinsky was a partner at Alston & Bird, where she served as the leader of that firm's Integrated Marketing and Advertising Practice. She advises clients about the execution of advertising, marketing, and promotion campaigns, as well as in connection with brand management and intellectual property acquisition and protection.