Mediabrands hired Genevieve Loriant as PR & communications director, Asia Pacific. In addition, Catherine Labbate joined Mediabrands Australia as creative producer.

Draftfcb named Sandy Kolkey president of Draftfcb New York. Kolkey most recently was executive vice president /group management director at Draftfcb Chicago, responsible for the Boeing, Dow, Diners Club, Blue Cross Blue Shield, MoneyGram and Chicago Cubs accounts.

Publicis Seattle named Roger Baxter as executive vice president, chief strategy officer. Prior to joining the agency, Baxter was managing partner of the Hall & Partners New York office.

Rawle Murdy Associates promoted John Kautz to director of brand management and Erin Watson to senior account director.

James Welsh was named creative director at The Marketing Arm, Dallas. Welsh spent the last four years as a creative consultant.

AKQA San Francisco promoted Lyndsey Murphy to search operations director and Drew Wahl to search strategy director.

Kinetic Worldwide promoted Steve Ridley to global chief executive officer, up from global chief operation officer.

La Comunidad named Darren Himebrook as director of interactive production and Carla Poumian-Ruiz as senior account director.

Redscout named Mark Lewis as strategy director. He joins Redscout from DDB San Francisco, where he served as an account planning director.

Rosann Calisi joins Eleven, San Francisco as director of creative services. Calisi joins the company from Deutsch Los Angeles where she was senior vice president, director of creative services.