Rainbow Media announced several promotions. KENT REES becomes vice president and creative director for on-air promotions, IFC; MIKE WALTON is promoted to vice president and creative director for on-air promotions, WE: Women’s Entertainment; and TARA GORDON takes on the responsibilities of senior graphic designer for Rainbow Design Services. 

Creative design studio Pure has hired WENDY BROVETTO as executive producer.  She comes from Saucer Attack where she held the same title. Brovetto was previously executive producer and CEO of Fish Media.

The Point Group recently hired two executives. JUDI MARTIN will be executive vice president-chief operating officer. She previously held senior positions at Bates Southwest, Brouillard Communications and Fogarty Klein Monroe. RICHARD DRISCOLL, the firm's new senior vice president, was formerly with Bates Southwest and Fogarty Klein Monroe.

Peppercom has promoted TED BIRKHAHN to the newly created role of managing director. Birkhahn will oversee the integration of Peppercom’s offices in the U.S. and Europe while continuing to focus on client services and also managing the agency’s global marketing and business development efforts.

Mediaedge:cia has hired BILL BRADLEY as senior partner, communications strategy director, to oversee the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company account.  Bradley joins MEC from Optimedia. He previously handled media management duties in-house with Bristol-Myers Squibb. 

LAURA LEVITAN has joined the Keller Fay Group as senior vice president.  Levitan’s responsibilities will include securing new business opportunities for the word of mouth market research firm. She was previously at the Zyman Group, and also founded The Levitan Group.

EMusic has announced several key staff additions. Its editorial team has welcomed LENNY KAYE as rock/pop columnist, and music journalist MICHAELANGELO MATOS as managing editor. To support its increased marketing efforts, eMusic has hired CATHY HALGAS NEVINS as senior director, corporate communications, and MATT GATELY as senior director, acquisition marketing.

Colossal Media has hired WILL HAWKINS as its senior account manager for Colossal's outdoor media sales department. Hawkins' previous positions were at Grow Marketing as project manager on the Firefly Mobile account; before that, he served as marketing manager for the Nascar brand at Fox Sports.  

JILL GLASSMAN has joined WeatherBug as director of sales and marketing.  In her new role, Glassman will lead all advertising sales marketing efforts, including sales program development, trade advertising, and sales research. Previously, Glassman worked at Universal McCann Interactive where she was the associate media director on the Johnson & Johnson account.

Deutsch Inc. announced that five of its senior vice presidents have been promoted to executive vice presidents.  ROBB DEFILIPPIS becomes executive vice president, director of creative services, while ROBIN LANDER is promoted to executive vice president, director of human resources. Vonda LePage takes on the title of  executive vice president, director of corporate communications. The other departments with promotions are account management, where ERICA GRAU takes on the title of executive vice president, director; and media planning, where JULIA JONES is being promoted to executive vice president, director. …