Avenue A | Razorfish New York promoted HANS NEUBERT to executive creative director and MARC LUCAS to group creative director for digital marketing programs.

Newscom named DAVID YOUNG as vice president of sales and promoted TOM BANNON to vice president for business development.

JONATHAN MURTAUGH joined BzzAgent as director of business development.

RENETTA MCCANN, global CEO of Starcom MediaVest Group, is taking a one-year sabbatical from the company effective January 1, 2009. She will vacate the global CEO role immediately, and LAURA DESMOND, currently CEO of SMG/The Americas, will assume the global title.

Publicis Worldwide named NIGEL JONES as UK group chairman and chief executive, overseeing Publicis London, Publicis Modem, Publicis Dialog and Publicis Blueprint. He previously worked as president of DraftFCB London.

Fallon Minneapolis rehired CHRIS WIGGINS as creative director. Wiggins first joined Fallon Interactive in 1998 and was part of the team responsible for the BMW Films.

Doremus hired RAY MANNA as director of interactive strategy. He joins the agency from Icon Nicholson where he was senior digital marketing strategist.

Viewpoint Creative hired executive producer DIANA DE VRIES tothe creative staff of the company's Los Angeles office.

ALEXANDRA ALESKOVSKY joined Kaboose as general manager and senior vice president, online media properties.

OLIVIA GUSHIN, KELLY MULLEN, CHERYL O'DONNELL and KRISTIN O'HARA joined Prevention as online sales managers.