Publicis & Hal Riney hired Julie Liss in the new position of chief strategy officer. Liss joins from TBWA/Chiat/Day Los Angeles, where she was director of strategy & planning for the LA office and a member of the global planning leadership for the TBWA/ network.

WhittmanHart hired Arlene Tee as director of project management, Tamara Knight as account director and Ken Cellak as an associate creative director. In addition, Julie Adams was promoted to creative director.

47 Media hired Scott Pannier as director of publisher development.

Michael Fanuele was promoted to chief strategy officer of Euro RSCG's New York office. Fanuele previously served as Euro RSCG New York's managing director of strategy.

Velti hired Dakota Sullivan as vice president of global marketing in San Francisco and Greg Bauer as vice president of mobile solutions east. In addition, Wilson W. Cheung was named chief financial officer.

AdReady named Karl Siebrecht president and chief operating officer.

Peter Platt joined Catalyst Direct as chief digital officer, leading all digital marketing initiatives for the agency. He joins the agency from Butler/Till Media in Rochester, NY, where he was vice president of online media since 2002.

Mullen hired Dinesh Gopinath, Ph.D. as executive vice president, director of strategic analytics. Gopinath joins Mullen from ChoiceStream, where he was chief solutions officer and active in using data for precision communications targeting and more personalized forms of communications.

Glam Media hired Josh Jacobs as senior vice president of brand advertising products & marketing. Jacobs joins Glam Media from Yahoo!, where he served as vice president and general manager of marketing technology, and was head of strategy and marketing for the Yahoo! Publisher Network.

AdSafe Media added Don Epperson and Eric Paley to its board of directors.