ROGER W. NEAL was named senior vice president and general manager of BusinessWeek Online. He will be responsible for growing revenue, traffic and visibility for BusinessWeek Online. Most recently, he was director of business development at eBay, where he was responsible for revenue growth through key strategic partnerships.

MARC FAVARO has joined The Inspiration Networks as senior vice president, advertising and new media sales. Most recently, Favaro was senior vice president, managing director at Ascent Media.

DEBBIE DEMONTREUX has taken on an expanded role as vice president of original programming at The Independent Film Channel. Previously, DeMontreux served as the network’s vice president of original series and specials.

Tribune Media Net has named LEE JONES as senior vice president/sales and marketing. He succeeds DANA HAYES, who was named senior vice president/sales for Tribune Interactive.

CORD DOVER has joined TACODA as director, southwest advertising sales and NICK ALLEN has joined the company as northwest advertising sales manager. Before joining TACODA, Dover worked for Tickle.Com./Monster Worldwide, most recently as southwest sales director. Allen joins from Advertising.com where was northwest sales manager since 2004.

The Webby Awards has tapped STEVE MARCHESE and EMILY WARREN, formerly of The One Club and The Art Directors Club, respectively, to lead the expansion efforts in the advertising and marketing communities. Marchese takes on the role of senior producer and director of advertising and marketing juries and Warren was appointed producer and director of international development.

CHRIS SCHEMBRI has been promoted to senior vice president of media planning & partnerships for Discovery Networks U.S. Schembri is responsible for media positioning and cross-network promotion and is also charged with the creation and execution of media partnerships and management of Discovery Networks’ media planning teams and external media agency, PHD.

Burst Media has named CHARLES E. CAHILL to be an account executive in the company's Detroit office. Cahill comes to Burst Media from Root Markets, where he was director of sales for the Detroit Region since 2005.

PETER HOAGLAND was namedvice president, director of strategy for GreenHouse,while CHRIS SCHMAUS and MICHELLE BLACK were named account directors.

NATALIE TAYLOR has been named manager of affiliate ad sales for The Weather Channel and Weatherscan, the all-local, 24-hour service of The Weather Channel. Since 2002, Taylor had been vice president of business development for All Around Media.