Draftfcb Chicago elevated DEAN FERENAC and JOHN KENNY tosenior vice presidents of the agency.

Heavy.com hired MATTHEW PENNINGTON as managing director of its UK office. He was formerly the sales director for talkSPORT.

Range Online Media promoted DUSTIN ENGEL to vice president of strategy and media, up from director of consumer strategy and research.

MIKE THOMAS joined Empower MediaMarketing as director of information technology. Thomas joins the company from The Nielsen Company, where he served as vice president, business process improvement.

Real Time Matrix hired ED TROST as vice president of business development.

richrelevance hired DARREN VENGROFF as chief scientist. Vengroff previously served as principal engineer at Amazon.com.

Anthem Marketing Solutions added CHRISTOPHER CARROLL as partner and chief operating officer.

AOL's Platform A hired PETER KOO, DEBRA MCCORMICK and ROOPAM CHOWDHURY as strategy development managers.

ELENA TURNER joined Dieste as account director leading Hispanic direct mail and interactive teams for AT&T and Nationwide.

LinkedIn hired JEFF MAYO as director of advertising operations. Most recently Mayo worked at YouTube as senior director of advertising operations.