AKQA tapped Jim Rossman as president & chief operating officer. Rossman is currently the chief operating officer at Digitas.

Mediasmith hired Robert Cleary as group media director and Melissa Yearta as media supervisor.

Media Storm hired Russell Zingale as managing director. Zingale joins Media Storm from Carat USA, where he held the dual roles of director of business development and managing director of Carat Affiliates.

Travel Ad Network hired Dana C. Hayes, Jr. as chief revenue officer.

Kelliher Samets Volk hired Stephanie Warner as interactive producer.

Rosetta hired Alex Swander as manager of digital media. Swander most recently served as associate digital media director at Deutsch.

JVST hired Long Nguyen as media coordinator and promoted Tom Nguyen to media planner on the Eidos business.

Barkley hired Jim Eschrich as director of research and Janet Rose as vice president, senior planner.

Andrew Bast joined Purple@Epsilon as senior vice president, general manager. Most recently, Bast worked at Saatchi & Saatchi Healthcare Communications and its sibling agency Glow Worm on brands such as Nexium, Prilosec, Seroquel, Enbrel, and Amitiza.

T3 elevated Bryan Noguchi to vice president, executive media director.