John McNamara joined ESPN to lead national advertising sales strategies for Midwest-based clients and agencies.

Bob Luckie III, chairman of Luckie & Company, has stepped away from day to day leadership of the agency to spend more time as a full-time grandfather and serve the Birmingham community.

Ashley Luongo joined Ace Metrix as sales director.

Venables Bell & Partners launched vbp orange, a brand innovation consultancy that’s housed within Venables Bell & Partners. Orange will be led by Harlan Kennedy as director of strategy, Blake Bäkken as design director and Colleen McGee as director.

Shari Linker joined NCM Media Networks as vice president of marketing in New York. In addition, Sunil Soman was promoted to vice president, strategic insight and analytics.

Sullivan has hired Bill Westcott as managing director of strategy. He joins Sullivan from CoreBrand Communications, where he served as managing director, strategy.

Jonathan Shipman was named head of integrated production of Framestore New York.

Barry Kessel has been named senior managing director, global enterprise accounts at Wunderman, a new position. Previously, he was CEO of RTC. Jeff Ross, most recently president of RTC, was promoted to CEO.