Brandon McFadden joined Kargo as vice president of west coast sales.

GMR Marketing hired Todd Fischer as vice president, client management. Fischer, previously the head of Sponsorship Marketing for State Farm, will help support the agency’s international roster of music, sports, entertainment and lifestyle-focused clients.

Olivier Gers joined Starcom MediaVest Group as global president, LiquidThread, SMG’s branded entertainment content unit. He will be based out of the SMG London office and report to Brian Terkelsen, CEO of MediaVest. In his new role, Gers will be responsible for building the global LiquidThread business and expanding opportunities with brands, local production studios, networks and distribution organizations. Most recently, Gers served as chief executive officer for the Endemol Worldwide Brands division in London. Prior to that he served as general manager at FremantleMedia Licensing Worldwide. In 2012, LiquidThread produced more than 400 projects for 25 brands, resulting in …

AKQA promoted Sam Kelly to head of business development and marketing. In his new role, Kelly will oversee global business development and marketing, and report to CEO and founder Ajaz Ahmed. He will lead AKQA’s global marketing and business development teams to create new opportunities for client collaborations, and introduce new services such as Business Invention, Data Science, and Social. Kelly joined AKQA in 2008 as business development manager from WPP-owned VML where he led new business, marketing and PR strategy.

JWT New York hired Robert Frost as executive creative director. He joins the agency from Deutsch New York, where he served as senior vice president, group creative director. Frost will lead creative on the agency’s Vonage account. Sherri Chambers was named global business director. She previously worked at 72andSunny as group brand director for Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s. Bryan Gaffin was named group creative director, working across the agency’s healthcare clients, including Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca. He joins JWT from RAPP, where he worked on Viagra for Pfizer and the global Enterprise business for HP. Lastly, Kimberly …

MEC Bravo named Vilma Vale-Brennan as managing director, replacing Gonzalo del Fa, who has been selected to lead GroupM Multicultural. She will report to Marla Kaplowitz, CEO, MEC North America. Vilma will provide integrated communications strategies targeted to multicultural consumers across the US and also support MEC’s new business efforts, partnering with Eamonn Store, president, agency development. Vale-Brennan’s previous media experience includes roles at Havas Worldwide Advertising where she managed US/Mexico engagements and JWT, where she worked as executive director for Listerine PocketPacks.

PK4 Media hired John Adams as senior account executive.

Thom Hinkle joined TBS as vice president of comedy.

RP3 Agency hired Wyatt Queener as director, creative technology and promoted Kurt Roberts to chief creative technologist.

Sabrina Levine, former partner at Lizzie Grubman PR, joined Channel V Media as partner.