TAXI hired STEWART DEVLIN as design creative director and SCOTT BASSEN as associate creative director.

JENNIFER CASERTA was named executive vice president and general manager for fuse. Caserta joins the company from IFC where she served as senior vice president of marketing, overseeing all trade and consumer marketing initiatives for the network, including advertising campaigns, promotions and special events.

MEC Bravo, the Hispanic communications division of Mediaedge:cia, has named TANIA VILLALON as account director, working primarily on Astra Zeneca brands. Villalon joins MEC Bravo from del Rivero Messianu DDB, where she managed the creative, production and media duties for several U.S. Hispanic accounts, including Royal Caribbean, Marshalls, TJ Maxx, Clean & Clear, Anheuser-Busch, Neutrogena and Nokia.

TRACY N. LEHMANN was named director of media planning for Inter/Media Advertising, serving on the agency’s ditech.com account. Most recently, Lehmann was senior media planner and supervisor at G2 Direct & Digital.

ELINOR SHIELDS joined the Huffington Post as managing editor, responsible for overseeing day-to-day editorial operations. Shields joins The Huffington Post from the BBC in London, where she was a senior journalist on the Web site's world desk.

Moroch Partners named VINCE LOPRESTI as creative director, is responsible for all creative duties on the Mrs. Baird's and DFW Airport accounts. ROXANNE SCOTT was hired as art director for Citracal, DFW Airport and McDonald's accounts.

KATHLEEN BROOKBANKS, managing director ofthe Midwest region at OMD, will now serve as managing director of organizational development for OMD in the U.S. In her new role, Brookbanks will direct the design, planning and implementation of corporate organizational development programs, policies and procedures. Replacing her is WILLIAM GORSKI, who was named managing director of the Midwest region. Gorski joins OMD from DraftFCB-Chicago, where he served as executive vice president, chief account services officer.

DENISE GUNDZIK was promoted to media buyer/planner at Bader Rutter & Associates in the agency’s media department. Gundzik joined the agency in 2005 as an assistant media buyer/planner.

VNU Business Media has appointed SHEREEN ABUZOBAA its group marketing director for Travel, Performance and Marketing Services. Previously, Abuzobaa was the senior marketing director at Comverse Technology.

MICHAEL SMALL has been named the general manager for Radar Online. He most recently served as the editor-in-chief of RollingStone.com.