AvatarLabs named Josh Lawson as an interactive producer. He joins the company from Paramount Pictures, where he held the same post.

Thierry Vandewalle was named managing director of Publicis Modem Asia-Pacific.

Time Inc. has created a new "Time Inc. Branded Solutions" unit that combines the Time Inc. Corporate Sales & Marketing and Time Inc. Digital corporate sales operations. Leslie Picard, who was president of Time Inc. Corporate Sales & Marketing, has been named president, Time Inc. Branded Solutions, with both the Corporate Sales & Marketing and digital corporate sales teams reporting to her.

Lynn Teo joined AKQA as creative director and head of user experience. Previously, Teo worked at SapientNitro as creative director and director of user experience.

Interclick inc. named Bill Wise, current CEO of MediaBank, to its board of directors.

Amy Cohn joined Turner Broadcasting System as vice president of corporate communications. Prior to joining TBS, Inc., Cohn was executive director of corporate reputation management and public affairs for Cox Communications.

In a realignment of Time Inc.'s sports and news operations, Mark Ford has been promoted to executive vice president of Time Inc. and president of its newly created Sports Group, and John Q. Griffin has been named executive vice president of Time Inc. and president of its newly formed News Group. In addition, Kim Kelleher was named publisher of TIME magazine. Replacing her as Publisher of Sports Illustrated will be Frank Wall. Replacing Wall as Publisher of Money will be Brendan Ripp.

Mark Peterson has been named vice president, newsstand for the Meredith National Media Group. Peterson most recently served as executive vice president, managing director of DJG Marketing, LLC and president of ProCirc Retail Solutions Group.

EXelate promoted chief revenue officer, Mark S. Zagorski to chief executive officer.

Melissa Gordon joined MEC as senior partner, communications strategy director.