Scholastic has named ALAN SMAGLER vice president, trade sales. Smagler will be responsible for leading all sales efforts and managing the trade sales force for the Trade Publishing Division. He replaces GRAY PETERSON, who is moving into a senior sales position.

CARRIE SIMMONS KREISBERG has joined Horizon Media’s west coast office as an account supervisor. She joins Horizon from LCI/Universal McCann.

The J. Brown Agency has promoted VINCE WEINER to executive vice president of business development. Weiner was president of J. Brown’s Stamford office, and will be succeeded by MIKE SCHEINER and SUSAN ARDITI, who were named as managing directors.

STEVE HARRISON has expanded his role at Wunderman. He will now serve as creative director and chairman, Wunderman UK andworldwide creative director. Harrison’s initial focus will be the internal reorganization of the UK office. Harrison previously served as managing director and creative partner of Harrison Troughton Wunderman (HTW) in London.

GenieKnows.com, a Canadian search company, has appointed TIFFANY MITCHELL as director of business development and named GINA KOSTA as consultant. The company has also promoted MARK HARPER to vice president of strategic relations.

DIC has named KAAREN LEE BROWN senior vice president of creative affairs. Brown will oversee all aspects of programming for the new branded CBS and DIC Saturday morning kids’ programming block.

CARLOS AGUERO has been named creative director for NFL Network. Aguero will be responsible for the on-air look and graphics packages for all NFL Network programming. Most recently, Aguero was creative director for Fox Network Broadcasting.

Fogarty Klein Monroe has named VALERIE MOORE senior vice president of client development and DARLENE ASHLEY as senior vice president and account director for Popeyes Chicken and Biscuits.

DEE MC LAUGHLIN has been promoted to director of brand marketing at Virgin. In addition, WAYNE SCHOLES was hired as director of strategic marketing. Prior to her promotion McLaughlin was senior manager, creative & content for Virgin. In her new role McLaughlin will be responsible for all of the brands communications offline and online.

Horizon Media has launched a Print Services Group that will be led by Horizon vice president, director of print services DEBBIE SKLAR. She previously served as group planning supervisor.