Publicis Seattle named Britt Peterson Fero as executive vice president & head of strategy. Fero joins the agency from Cole & Weber, where she was a partner and director of growth strategy. Fero reports to Scott Foreman, CEO, of the office. Fero is a Publicis alumna, serving as director of development and innovation in Seattle in from 2004 – 2007. Prior to that, she worked at Fallon & Duffy Design in Minneapolis and New York leading brands such as United Airlines, Starbucks, Virgin Mobile and Bahamas Tourism. Publicis Seattle recently won the Eddie Bauer account, and counts T-Mobile, Seabourn, and …

David&Goliath hired Sandy Beck as management supervisor and Astrid Raimondo as digital account director. Both will be based in the agency’s LA office. Beck will be responsible for account management and client services on a new piece of business that has not been announced. Beck will report to Jennifer Rusin, group account director at D&G. Most recently, Beck was account director at Young & Rubicam NY, where she handled Land Rover of North America and led marketing strategies and helped develop integrated digital campaigns to support the Next Generation Range Rover and the All-New Range Rover Sport. Raimondo will report …

Mindshare North America hired Karina Dobarro to head up the company’s multicultural marketing group. Dobarro will be responsible for spearheading the development of multicultural campaigns across Mindshare’s client roster. She will report to Gonzalo Del Fa, president of parent company GroupM’s newly established unit, GroupM Multicultural as well as Jordan Bitterman, Mindshare’s chief strategy officer. Dobarro will be based in the company’s New York headquarters. Dobarro most recently served as account director at MEC where she developed and executed multicultural communications plans for various clients. Before that, she served as associate media director at The Vidal Partnership, developing communications plans …

R/GA Chicago hired Joe Scartz as managing director, client services. In this role, Scartz will lead the Capital One account and report to Jeff Brecker, vice president, managing director, R/GA Chicago. Scartz joins R/GA from Digital BrandWorks, where he led a rebranding campaign that repositioned the company as a marketing services firm. Prior to that, Scartz spent eight years at Critical Mass where he managed the Chicago office, growing revenue during his first year by 30%, and expanding the office to more than 175 people within his second year.

MEC hired John Beale as managing director of its Cape Town office. He joins the agency on November 1.

Pete D'Andrea joined Attack! Marketing as vice president of partnerships.

Mercury Filmworks named Marianne Culbert as vice president of production.

Local Corporation hired Jesus Gaytan as vice president of product management.

Telemundo Media hired Latha Sarathy as vice president, Telemundo media digital research, and promoted Yatisha Bothwell to vice president, insights & strategy.

Sean Boyle was promoted to vice president, development at Discovery Channel.