Matt MacDonald was elevated to executive creative director at JWT New York.

Chris Hayes was named chief marketing officer of Young & Rubicam, North America. Hayes joins the agency from Euro RSCG 4D, where he was marketing director, Europe, based in Amsterdam, as well as global brand director on the agency's Unilever account.

MediaCom hired Jason Lim as managing partner, director of direct response marketing. Lim joins MediaCom from Halogen Response Media, where he was senior vice president, media director.

Neil Cleary joined Allen & Gerritsen as vice president, director of audience intelligence and brand planning group.

SolutionSet hired Zain Raj as president and chief operating officer. Prior to joining SolutionSet, Raj was CEO of Euro RSCG Discovery, the North American CRM, analytics and database marketing arm of Euro RSCG Worldwide.

Ed Huerta has been named strategic recruiting director for Carmichael Lynch. Huerta previously served as vice president, director of project management and creative manager at Campbell Mithun in Minneapolis.

Unicast promoted Bryan Hjelm to vice president of product and marketing, up from vice president of marketing.

Kirshenbaum bond senecal + partners hired TJ Bennett and Bill Graham as associate creative directors. The duo joins the agency from TBWA/Chiat/Day New York, where they worked on the Vonage account.

RightNetwork hired Uri Weingarten as senior vice president, digital media and Michael Winneker as director of distribution operations.

Doremus hired Jason Luis as director of analytics to head the agency's analytics and marketing operations department. Most recently, Luis was director of analytics at Black Bag Advertising.