IQ Interactive has appointed MICHAEL BEAVERS as director of strategy and JEFF MIKES as director of operations and finance.

BRYAN BRICKLEY has been named senior director, general manager of Searchfeed.com.

MARK WESTLAKE has joined HowStuffWorks.com as executive vice president of sales and content. Westlake will be responsible for overseeing domestic content and sales as well as global revenue. Most recently, Westlake served as the senior vice president of sales and marketing for About.com.

Effective mid-September, Crain Communications will name Crain’s New York Business publisher ALAIR TOWNSEND publishing director and JILL KAPLAN publisher of CNYB. Kaplan joins Crain’s New York Business from The Wall Street Journal where she is general manager of The Weekend Edition, Weekend Journal, Personal Journal and The Journal Report.

160over90 has named DAVID BURDEN director of client services.

CAROLINE TAYLOR has been promoted to account supervisor within the Client Services department at nurun | ant farm interactive.

JOHN CANTARELLA was named general manager of TIME.com. He joins the company from NYTimes.com, where he was the group director for marketing and operations.

Venable LLP has added ALISA BERGMAN and STUART INGIS, attorneys who focus on privacy, marketing, and Internet law and policy, as partners in the firm's Washington, DC office.

CURT VIEBRANZ, chief operating officer of TACODA since 2004, has been named the company’s CEO. DAVE MORGAN, who co-founded TACODA and has served as its chief executive officer, has been named chairman of the company, replacing co-founder, BRAD BURNHAM.

ID Society has named PIERRE KREMER as project manager; JOANN KIM as strategy manager; and KEVIN YARASHEFSKI as account manager.