YUMI MORIGUCHI joined dentsuAmerica as an account executive on various accounts, including Canon, Ajinomoto and NEC. Most recently, Moriguchi was a sales and marketing assistant manager at IIJ America.

ABIGAIL TULLER has been named the editor-in-chief of Pregnancy magazine, beginning with the June issue. She was most recently editorial director and operations manager for Cherry Lane.

ImpreMedia hired SCOTT MAUTNER as general counsel. Most recently, Mautner served as the general counsel of WestCom Holdings Corp., a provider of telecom services to the banking and financial communities.

ROBERT BONOMO joined VentureDirect Worldwide as the director of distribution, responsible for affiliate, media buys, email, co-registration, and other forms of media.

MICHAEL FLOOD has been named a senior account executive at Travel Ad Network and BENJAMIN JOHNSON joined the company as vice president of information technology.

AvatarLabs appointed DONNA ARROGANTE as online media designer.

ELLEN KNABLE joined ka-chew!’s Punch Company as executive producer and will oversee all national sales efforts. She will also run the sales and marketing efforts for ka-chew! in animation for the West and Midwest.

MIKE SANDERS was named chief financial officer of EMAK. ROY DAR, currently vice president, controller, has been promoted to senior vice president, controller. DUANE JOHNSON, currently vice president, human resources, has been promoted to senior vice president, human resources. Lastly, BRIAN KRISTOFEK, currently president of EMAK’s Upshot agency, has been promoted to chief executive officer, Upshot.

Blast Radius named BARRY YATES as chief operating officer. Most recently, Yates was the president & CEO of Antarctica Systems, a business intelligence software company.

DraftFCB tapped JIM LUCAS tohead the agency's newly formed Shopper Marketing Division. Lucas will serve as executive vice president and director of the new retail-centric unit, headquartered in Chicago. The unit will help retailers, manufacturers and service providers to further understand and motivate shoppers within today's retail environments.