CLARK KOKICH has been named worldwide president of aQuantive. Most recently he served as president of Avenue A | Razorfish’s west region and before that was president of Avenue A’s Seattle and Chicago offices. Prior to Avenue A | Razorfish, Kokich held executive positions with Calla Bay retailers, AT&T Wireless and Cole & Weber.

AOL has named ERIK FLANNIGAN as its vice president, programming. Flannigan will fill a newly created programming post, overseeing four distinct entertainment Web sites on AOL and AOL.com including Moviefone, AOL Music, AOL Radio, and AOL Television. Flannigan was most recently vice president of programming for Buena Vista Datacasting.

JOHN SPIROPOULOS has joined MediaVest as vice president, broadcast research director. Most recently, he served as partner, associate director of MindShare's Consumer Insights/Media Research & Development group where he developed research for clients such as Novartis, Mattel, Unilever, American Express, NexTel and 20th Century Fox.

KIMBER STERLING has joined Reactrix Media Systems as vice president of marketing. Sterling comes to Reactrix from TiVo, where he served as the director of advertising and research sales since 2003.

Blast Radius is expanding its presence in the U.S. to include an office in Redwood Shores, CA. Joining the new office are SUBBU BALAKRISHNAN as director of technology; DEMO VILLANUEVA as senior director, client services and operations; SAM PARNELL as head of the application development function; and DAVID SAXON in the business development and sales department.

Best Buy promoted RUBY ANIK to senior vice president, advertising and promotional marketing. Anik directs development of all company advertising, event and promotional programs, and manages relationships with the company's external agency partners. Anik joined Best Buy as vice president of media in 2000 and assumed full advertising responsibilities in 2002.

Seed Media Group has named DR. JAMES WATSON as special advisor to the board.

MATT FALLON joins independent agency MMB as senior account supervisor. Fallon will work on the agency’s Subway account. Prior to joining MMB, he spent seven years with Hill Holliday, Boston most recently as an account supervisor. 

Modernista! added HALLIE BRAM as an assistant account executive. Bram will work on the agency’s Napster account.

MARC HODES joins ML Rogers as vice president, account director. Hodes will be responsible for the Scotts Company Lawns, Seeds and Ortho accounts. Prior to joining ML Rogers, Hodes worked at Young & Rubicam, most recently as vice president, account director.