Silver Direct named DENNIS SHANOFF as marketing and sales manager.

KARIN MARKE joined Glam Media as vice president of sales. She was formerly vice president of sales for MySpace at Fox Interactive.

Horizon Media hired SHERI D. RODER as senior vice president, consumer insights director.

OgilvyAction named SCOTT MUELLER as executive vice president and business director in its New York office. Mueller joins the company from Publicis Dialog.

Jumpstart Automotive Media promoted CHAD BEASLEY from vice president west coast sales & creative development to vice president of marketing. Beasley will beresponsible for leading the strategic direction, planning and implementation of all marketing efforts.

DAVID BARBER was named senior vice president of newspaper relations at PARADE. Barber was previously senior vice president of newspaper relations for USA Weekend.

MIKE PERALTA was named vice president of northeast and Midwest sales regions at Advertising.com. Peralta most recently served as managing director of Advertising.com’s United Kingdom and Western European operations.

St. John & Partners hired VANESSA HERTZ as a media planning supervisor; SARAH CALVERT as a media planning assistant; and promoted JOE STELMA to senior media buyer; ALYSSA WEINBERG to media planning supervisor; and ASHLEY MILES to media planner.

CRAIG PATTON joined R/GA as managing director, European business development. Most recently, he was managing director at ipsh!, a mobile marketing and advertising agency.

MARC USA promoted ANDY MCKENNA to senior creative director and BOB BAUER to director of print media.