Digitas named Gerry Bavaro, former vice president of strategy of Resolution Media, as senior vice president of performance media.

MEC promoted Jitka Petrickova to managing partner, west.

Venables Bell & Partners hired Manjula Nadkarni as director of interactive production. Nadkarni joins the agency from Mekanism, where she was a senior integrated producer, working for clients like Participant Media, MTV, Electronic Arts, Estee Lauder, Nike, the International Olympic Committee, CNN, Unilever, the One Show, the Sierra Club and General Mills.

AudienceScience named Mike Peralta as president.

The Richards Group hired Jay Pritchard as public affairs specialist.

Scott Cocchiere joined Emanate as director, creative relevance while Barrett Tripp and Joe DeSalazar joined the company as vice presidents.

Jim Carlton was named managing creative director for Arc Worldwide.

Andreas Nilsson joined biscuit filmworks for commercial representation.

Ocean Fine was promoted to director, west coast mobile and online sales, AT&T AdWorks.

The Leo Burnett Group hired Tom Jump as general manager of growth and operations for its New York network of agencies, including Leo Burnett New York, Atelier and Leo Burnett Business.