Marty Barry joined OLSON as associate account director, interactive, from Ratchet, where he served as account director. He will be working on interactive marketing campaigns with United Health Group and other OLSON clients.

MediaCom hired Jennifer Marino as senior partner, director of consumer insights for its U.S. operation. Prior to joining MediaCom, Marino was associate director, global strategic insights and new ventures marketing, Johnson & Johnson/Neutrogena Cosmetics.

MySpace has appointed Shari Friedman to the role of senior vice president advertising sales, west. Prior to joining MySpace, Shari spent 6 years at AOL, most recently as regional sales director overseeing all movie and television business.

Nexage hired Jon Phenix as vice president of sales and marketing. Phenix comes to Nexage from gamerDNA, where he served as vice president of sales and advertising operations.

Federated Media hired Bryon LaBumbard as director of sales for its Manhattan office. Previously, LaBumbard was national sales director at BuzzLogic.

Draftfcb Chicago hired Kevin Drew Davis as senior vice president, group creative director, digital and Emily Brennan as director of the agency's Search Engine Marketing practice.

Catherine Heath was named chief strategy officer for Modernista! Heath was most recently vice president, planning director at McCann Worldgroup's T.A.G. San Francisco working on Microsoft.

Appssavvy hired Todd Bowman as senior vice president of sales. Bowman joins the company from Condé Nast Digital Media.

DDB and Tribal DDB promoted Cathy Carl to vice president, U.S. communications director. Carl has been with DDB for seven years, most recently as vice president, associate director, U.S. communications.

Organic named Lezlie Grossman as general manager of its Toronto office. Prior to joining Organic, Grossman was a managing director at Capital C Communications.