MICHAEL DAVIS has been promoted to senior vice president, director of emerging mediaat Draft Chicago.

MICHAEL GRATZ has been appointed research director at AARP Publications. Gratz joins AARP Publications from WIRED Magazine, where he was marketing and research director.

CURT HECHT has been named chief digital officer of GM Planworks, the full-service media agency dedicated to General Motors. Planworks' parent network Starcom MediaVest Group has also named him an executive vice president. He will directly manage GM Planworks key relationships with companies such as Yahoo, Google and AOL.

STEVE COX has joined Coremetrics as vice president of operations.

Organic has named JAMES KIM as vice president of strategy. He was most recently vice president of marketing at Modem Media. Prior to that, Kim was group director of strategy at Organic's San Francisco office.

KEITH LORIZIO has been namedgeneral manager of sales for MSN at Microsoft Corp. Most recently, he was vice president of sales at Yahoo.

PIC-TV has created a business development division. The new unit will be lead by DAVID HANSFIELD, vice president, business development, PIC-TV. BILL CROASDALE JR. has rejoined the company to work in the new department as account executive, business development. Joining Croasdale on the team will be JANET JIMENEZ, currently an account executive at PIC-TV.

JEFF MCCLELLAND has been named CEO of Cliff Freeman & Partners, the agency’s first-ever CEO. McClelland was previously founder and chief integration officer of integratedBRAND, where he independently consulted with several Fortune 500 Companies in such industries as pharmaceutical, financial services, new product launches, and health and beauty aids.

Telmar Group has named CLARE O'NEIL as managing director and CEO of Telmar's South African operation. LISA BOTHA continues as president and director of Telmar South Africa and MARTIN URRY continues as technical director and director of the company. O'Neil was general manager of South Africa's largest TV broadcaster, SABC Television Airtime Sales, since 2001.

Mansueto Ventures, the recently formed publishing venture that includes Inc. and Fast Company, promoted ED SUSSMAN to senior vice president of online operations and business development and hired CNBC veteran BRIAN ANDERSON as a vice president of business development. Sussman was formerly the managing director of Inc.com and Fastcompany.com.