Agency.com Chicago hired BRAD WILLIAMS as creative director and RUSSELL UNGER as senior information architect.

JULIE ROTHMAN joined Oxygen Media as vice president, communications. Rothman will be responsible for the network's media relations, publicity and corporate communications. Rothman most recently served as vice president of east coast entertainment publicity for NBC.

KATHY CRAWFORD is retiring from MindShare. She served as president of local broadcast for MindShare North America, since 2003.

Deutsch New York hired YOUNG LEE and BRENT VARTAN as senior vice president, group planning director, and vice president, group planning director, respectively. Both will work on clients such as Starwood, USAA and IKEA.

OLSON named STEVE HANSON general manager/chief operations officer for the Minneapolis office and BILL FIRING managing director of the San Francisco office.

Tremor Media hired MARK PINNEY as global CFO. He joins Tremor from AOL's Platform A, where he was the head of business planning.

YCD Multimedia named CARTER ETHERINGTON as chief marketing officer. Etherington was previously director of content distribution & partnership marketing at MTV Networks, where he launched and distributed emerging brands including Logo & MTV TR3S.

Blue Plate Media Services hired EDWARD WEBER as media planner. Most recently, Weber served as media planner for Initiative Media.

Unit7 promoted STEVE CAPP to chief creative officer. He was most recently group creative director.

n-tara interactive hired TIM STORY and SUZANNE SOWARDS-HAMM as directors of business development.