United Online has hired WILLIAM "BILL" MASTERSON as vice president, agency sales. Prior to joining the UOL Media Group, Masterson was vice president of agency relations at Advertising.com.

LISA PALMER has been promoted to vice president and general sales manager at Adlink, up from local sales manager.

VINCE SANTO was named vice president and managing director of Molecular’s New York office.

AKQA has appointed GUY WIEYNK as managing director of its New York office. He joined AKQA in London in 1998 and relocated to AKQA in San Francisco as client services director in 2004.

EyeWonder has launched a Midwest regional office in Chicago, led by new regional sales head KATHLEEN LEVIN. Prior to joining EyeWonder, Levin served as a senior account executive at WeatherBug and most recently as senior account director at BlueLithium. In addition, BARRY BEDFORD was named managing director of the company’s Ireland office.

TRACY LEHMANN has been named director of planning for Intermedia, handling the Ditech account. Most recently, Lehmann was senior media planner at G2 direct & digital working on the Auto Club of Southern California account.

MIKE KELLY, formerly a senior partner and executive group director at Ogilvy, has been named president of Amalgamated. Additionally, he joins agency founders CHARLES ROSEN, DOUG HOLT, DOUG CAMERON and JASON GABORIAU as a partner.

Carat Fusion has hired JEFF THALER as senior vice president, director of program management. Most recently, Thaler worked at Tribal DDB New York.

LAURA DESMOND, chief executive officer of MediaVest USA, has been named CEO of SMG/The Americas, effective October 1. Desmond will preside over a region that includes Canada, the United States and Latin America, and includes the USA brands Starcom, MediaVest, GM Planworks, StarLink, Halogen and Tapestry.

Young & Rubicam Brands Irvine has added MILES TURPIN as senior vice president, creative director. He joins the agency from Energy BBDO where he was most recently group creative director.