PAUL RAGLAND has joined DayPort as director of national accounts. Ragland will develop new business opportunities.

MATTHEW DAMRON has joined Source Marketing Inc. as senior vice president and group director, a new position. Most recently, Damron was senior vice president and group director at McCann Relationship Marketing in New York.

SARITA SMITH has been promoted to the position of senior vice president, research and planning for Discovery Networks, U.S. Smith oversees all research activities for Discovery's U.S. Networks, supporting programming, marketing, communications and affiliate sales divisions, and works with management to develop consumer-based strategies to grow Discovery's U.S. audiences. Smith most recently served as vice president of research and planning for Discovery Networks, U.S., responsible for all programming and marketing research for TLC, Travel Channel, Discovery Health Channel, Discovery Kids Channel and iMedia.

Nurun inc. has named PARIZAD MOTIWALA as senior vice president - client services, North America. Motiwala will oversee all the operations of Nurun in New York City. She will be responsible for managing executive-level client relationships for all local clients. Prior to joining Nurun, she was vice president, client principal at IconNicholson.

imc2 has hired NIHIRIKA SHAH, BETH KUYKENDALL and MIKE GRAZIANO. Shah, client services' account director, will lead strategy development for ecommerce clients. Shah served as director of product management for Toys "R" Us, Inc., responsible for BabiesRUs.com and SportsRUs.com. Kuykendall, vice president of database marketing, will work with retail clients to implement more targeted, customized communications programs across company channels. Graziano is responsible for identifying retail opportunities and aligning client needs with company solutions.

Discovery Networks has named MICHELE SOLOMON as marketing director for Discovery Solutions, the division dedicated to large-scale, cross-platform advertising sales partnerships. Solomon joins Discovery from the NBA in New York, where she served as senior marketing manager.

TBWA announces the formation of a new group structure for the west coast, TBWACalifornia. LEE CLOW and ROBERT LEPLAE will lead the TBWACalifornia group. LePlae, currently president of TBWAChiatDay Los Angeles, assumes the new position of president and chief executive officer for TBWACalifornia. CARISA BIANCHI, currently chief strategic officer for TBWAChiatDay Los Angeles, succeeds LePlae as president of TBWAChiatDay Los Angeles.

Horizon Media has promoted KIMBERLY HAYNES-PETERSON to VP, account group head, STACEY MIZRACH to manager of the Promotions Group and CHRIS WIEBKE to account executive in the NY Account Group. MELISSA WHITCOMB has also joined the firm's New York Planning Department as a media planner. Haynes-Peterson came to Horizon in April 2004 from Initiative Media in NY where she was account director, primarily servicing the America Online account. Mizrach began her career at Horizon as an assistant buyer in the Radio group in December 2002 then switched into the promotions group as a promotions coordinator in August 2003. Wiebke started …

SFGT, Philadelphia, has hired MELISSA MARTELL as strategic planner. Previously, Martell was partner and planner at Ogilvy & Mather, New York, where she worked across all IBM corporate and product brands.

KEN ZASKY has been named president of StarLink Worldwide, a full-service media agency unit of Starcom MediaVest Group. Zasky previously acted as StarLink's EVP/chief operating officer. Zasky replaces SCOTT NESLUND, who has left the agency.