The Visionaire Group named Ajay Chadha as vice president of business development. Previously, Chadha was co-founder of Planet Distribution and Ignition Entertainment.

AKQA San Francisco hired Paul Nowikowski and Craig Kind as art director and copywriter, respectively, working on the Xbox and Google accounts. Nowikowski and Kind joined AKQA from Glue Isobar in London.

Discovery Networks International announced the creation of a new production and development unit across the division that will focus on developing global content for Discovery's portfolio of networks. Luis Silberwasser, executive vice president and chief content officer, will lead the unit.

Heather Danby has joined Euro RSCG Chicago as account director. Prior to joining Euro RSCG Chicago, Danby served as management director at Draftfcb Chicago, where she worked on business development initiatives and managed client relationships with Kmart and the United States Postal Service.

Media6Degrees named Diane Rinaldo as senior director of sales. She joins Media6Degrees from TPM Media, where she was vice president of sales.

Wieden+Kennedy hired Seth Weisfeld as interactive creative director. Weisfeld comes to W+K from Bartle Bogle Hegarty New York, where he was a digital creative director.

Original Film hired Kevin Ward and Brent Jones as directors. In addition, Marc Lasko joined the company as executive producer.

Lindsey Kerr joined Beehive PR as an account supervisor. Most recently, Kerr was an account manager at Karwoski & Courage Public Relations, where she managed business-to-business dental health accounts, including 3M ESPE implants and Patterson Dental.

BitTorrent appointed Shahi Ghanem as chief strategist and executive vice president of marketing.

Nelson Schmidt has added Erin Kong as a production designer. She will provide creative support to the art directors and designers with a primary focus on the agency's Honeywell account.