Havas Worldwide named Sarita Bhatt as director of global strategy.

Eric Mortensen has been appointed director of programming and acquisitions at My Damn Channel. He joins the company after six years at Blip, where he was senior director, content and network programming.

Jonathan Podolsky joined Mad*Pow as a senior strategist.

The Ad Council named Beth Collins Ellard as executive vice president.

Initiative promoted Tracy-Ann Goodwin to vice president, director of insight & strategy.

GumGum named Matt Weisbecker vice president, western sales.

WDCW hired Ramon Vasquez as senior designer. Vasquez joins WDCW from Creature where he worked as a senior designer.

gyro hired Jurgen Müller-Nedebock as creative director for its Munich office. Prior to gyro, Müller-Nedebock was senior creative director at Action Impact GCC in Dubai.

BEL Furniture hired Michelle Bunch as executive director of marketing and commercial sales.

Fanscape hired Jennifer Turnbull as senior community manager and Sarah Tabbus as account director.