TDA Advertising & Design hired Jim Moscou as director of strategy and development.

Social Control hired Mason Williams as senior producer; Steve Scavo as UX designer, Michael Arieli as senior developer and promoted Julia Bartine to senior digital strategist.

Alex Sion joined Sapient as vice president of digital strategy, financial services, in the company's New York office. Formerly a senior vice president at Citi, Sion will focus on helping retail financial services clients understand how to reach and engage customers in the digital world.

Lion Television promoted Allison Corn to the newly created position of vice president of production and development.

Mother New York hired Nicke Bergstrom as creative director. Bergstrom joins Mother from Swedish agency Farfar, where he served as co-founder and creative director.

Deutsch New York promoted Stephen Murphy to executive vice president, customer and data strategy; Michael Bagalman to senior vice president, customer data strategy; Maureen Burzynski to senior vice president, director of spot buying; Stephanie Lee-Pang to senior vice president, director of interactive production; Brent Vartan to senior vice president, group planning director; Megan Govin to vice president, associate media director; Stephanie Jones to vice president, manager media relations and publicity; and Kendra McCann to vice president, associate director media research.

Deutsch New York promoted Stephen Murphy to executive vice president, customer and data strategy; Michael Bagalman to senior vice president, customer data strategy; Maureen Burzynski to senior vice president, director of spot buying; Stephanie Lee-Pang to senior vice president, director of interactive production; Brent Vartan to senior vice president, group planning director; Megan Govin to vice president, associate media director; Stephanie Jones to vice president, manager media relations and publicity; and Kendra McCann to vice president, associate director media research.

Frank Hahn and Naoki Ito were named executive creative directors at Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo.

DDB Chicago hired Ashley Sferro as senior producer, working on AT&T and Anheuser-Busch. Prior to DDB, Sferro was a broadcast producer at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, where she worked on Hewlett-Packard.

Brent Smart was named executive vice president, managing director of BBDO West, replacing Peter Sherman, who is returning to the East coast. Smart was most recently the managing director of Colenso BBDO in New Zealand.