ANDREAS ROELL, president and CEO of Geary Interactive, has been named president of the San Diego Advertising Club. Roell, who previously served as Ad Club vice president and president-elect, will serve as president for the remainder of the 2005-2006 term, following the resignation of Ad Club president JIM KING.

The Bravo Group has named HÉCTOR CARIÑO as director of human resources; ELLEN GUTIERREZ as account director; JEFFREY GONZALEZ as digital strategist / program manager and GERY LOPEZ as account director, in Bravo Retail and Promotional Marketing.

Yahoo has named VINCE BROADY to oversee Yahoo's games, entertainment and youth properties. Broady joins the company after six years at CNET Networks, where he most recently served as senior vice president of entertainment. In that role, he was responsible for CNET's portfolio of entertainment brands, including MP3.com, TV.com and Metacritic.com.

Capps, a subsidiary of Publicis Groupe S.A., has hired DAVIDE MARCHIONNI as director of visual solutions in its New York office.

Universal McCann has promoted twelve employees in its San Francisco office. JENNY BANE, GRISELDA FERNANDEZ, ROBERT CHEN and JORDAN KIM were promoted to media supervisor; JOHN NGUYEN, CHRISTINA FLINT, and ADRIANA OLIVEIRA were elevated to media planner; JEN RIOS was named interactive buyer; JAY TAYLOR was named media budget manager; MATT NESSIER was promoted to interactive associate media director; MOLLY SHULTZ was named interactive buyer; and JASON TSAI was named interactive group media director.

Vertis has named MARK ELY as senior creative director. Ely was most recently the creative director at SADG in Dallas.

LYNDA M. CLARIZIO has been named president of Advertising.com. Clarizio joins the company from AOL where she most recently served as executive vice president of AOL's Audience Business.

ROBERTA HABER has joined Mullen as senior vice president, director of direct response media, a new position. Haber will lead the direct response unit for mediaHUB from Mullen, the agency’s media and analytics group.She joins the agency from Hill Holliday, where she was media director, relationship marketing.

RAYMOND (RAY) OUELLETTE was named chief information officer of Forbes.com, a new position. Most recently, he was CTO of Thomson Media.

Reuters.co.uk promoted TIM FAIRCLIFF to general manager, Reuters Consumer Media Europe and ALAN GRIFFIN to vice president, Reuters Consumer Media Europe.