Jerome Barrillon has joined Keiler as executive director of industrial accounts, a new position.

Blitz Mediapromoted Suzy Hill to group account director and Melissa Chase to media supervisor.

Brunner named Dan Wald as chief growth officer. Wald joins the agency from Publicis Kaplan Thaler, New York, where he was senior vice president, new business.

VML named Jeff Geheb as chief technology officer.

TubeMogul hired Josh Srebnick as sales director, Boston.

Matrixx Initiatives hired Lori Norian as vice president of marketing on the Zicam Cold Remedy brand.

Greg Corso joined MRM as executive vice president, director of data and analytics for its New York/Princeton offices.

Venables Bell & Partners hired Michael Davidson as head of strategy. Davidson will oversee the agency’s department, including account planning and communications strategy, and report to Lucy Farey-Jones, partner, executive strategy director. Davidson joins the agency from Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, where he spent two stints – his first working on TheWall Street Journal and Haagen-Dazs and most recently as group strategy director leading Sprint’s “Now Network” and “All Together Now” campaigns. He also helped Goodby pitch and create Xfinity’s “Future of Awesome” platform. Joining Davidson in the strategy department is another new hire, Leander Chapman as group strategy …

Hank Cohen, most recently CEO of KSL Media, launched WindStar Media, a media company offering concierge-like services and backed by the InterMedia Group of Companies. Cohen spent eight years in New York on the agency side working with Kenyon & Eckhardt, Benton & Bowles and Ally & Gargano. He spent another four years on the client side at Publisher’s Clearing House where he is best known for creating the “Prize Patrol” for PCH. “Our goal is to create enhanced revenue and greater value for our advertisers by beginning from a blank page and a business owner’s instinct,” said Cohen, who …

Tom Flint has joined the Minneapolis office of Digitaria as senior director of strategy. He will lead strategy for Digitaria’s Midwest clients, reporting to Mark Newcomer, senior vice president, strategy. Flint joins Digitaria from the Gabriel deGrood Bendt, where he was director of digital, leading the digital marketing unit of the Twin Cities’ integrated marketing communications firm, and managing a team of designers, developers, project managers and strategists. Prior to that, Flint held a series of positions at the Minneapolis agency Periscope, where he began as senior interactive designer and concluded as digital strategy director, making the leap from creative …