THOMAS P. CALDWELL was named senior vice president and chief financial officer at Jingle Networks. Before joining Jingle Networks, Caldwell was a principal with Financial Leadership Group, LLC, where he provided CFO consulting services to public and private companies.

Real Branding has named MARTI FUNK as media director and PATRICIA GALEA as group account director. Funk joins the agency from Carat Fusion.

JOUETTE TRAVIS was named executivevice president-managing director of Carat Dallas. She will be responsible for operations of the Carat Dallas office, leading local business development and overseeing strategic development for existing clients, such as RadioShack, Game Stop and Rent-a-Center. Jouette joins Carat from OMD Dallas, where she served as senior vice president-managing director.

NEIL STROW has joined the Travel Ad Network as senior director, east coast sales. Previously Strow opened and ran the New York Sales office for TiVo. Prior to that, he worked for The Weather Channel and Weather.com.

GenieKnows.com has named TONY ABOU-ASSALEH as director of research and development. Abou-Assaleh is responsible for leading the GenieKnows.com research team in developing search-engine technologies.

Heavy.com has named DOUG ROHRER as executive vice president, revenue. He most recently served as executive vice president, emerging media, MTV Networks.

Peppercom has named GENE COLTER to the newly created role of editorial director in the agency’s New York office. Colter joins Peppercom from The Wall Street Journal, where he spent two years as news editor in the Money & Investing section.

HENRY SCHLEIFF, most recently chairman of the Court Television Network, has been named president and chief executive officer of Crown Media.

Deep Focus has hired MARTIN MARCUS as vice president of finance and operations and ERIC DRUCKENMILLER as the company's media director.

SUSAN BRABANT and GEORGE DELEON were promoted to associate account executives at The Walt Disney Internet Group, Disney Online.