SapientNitro added four employees to its Toronto office. Andrew Light, vice president of strategy, joins the agency from PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada, where he served as vice president of consulting, delivering insights and projections on the digital environment.  Director of innovation Howard Goldkrand previously worked at Modernista! under the same job title. Brett Farrell, vice president of client services, joins the agency with 20 years of experience in global, regional and local brand leadership working on accounts like Visa, Royal Bank of Canada, Google, Corona, Coors Light, Singapore Airlines and Petro Canada. Lastly, vice president of client services, George Panapoulos, joins the …

Colle+McVoy promoted Jim Silburn to president of the agency, up from director of client services. He will continue to lead the agency’s strategic, digital, analytics, media and account management offering. Silburn will report to CEO, Christine Fruechte, who held the title of president for seven years and has been CEO for more than five years. Before joining Colle+McVoy, Silburn served as senior director of marketing, brand communication and value proposition at Capella Education Company. Prior to that, he worked at Fallon, Martin Williams and Carmichael Lynch, on brands such as Harley-Davidson Motorcycles, U.S. Bank, Purina Dog Chow & Puppy Chow, …

Barton F. Graf 9000 hired Ian Reichenthal and Scott Vitrone as partners/executive creative directors. The pair most recently ran the New York office of Wieden and Kennedy as co-executive creative directors. Their hiring reunites them with Barton founder Gerry Graf. The three had worked together at TBWA/Chiat NY. After leaving TBWA NY, Reichenthal and Vitrone were co-chief creative officers at Y&R, New York overseeing accounts like Land Rover, Virgin Airlines and LG Electronics. While at Wieden + Kennedy, the duo oversaw clients that included Delta Airlines, Heineken, Southern Comfort, Jordan and ESPN. “Scott and Ian are hands down the greatest …

Resource hired Steve Anacker and Dave Clark as creative directors in the San Francisco and Chicago offices, respectively. Clients under Anacker’s direction will include Clorox brands Glad and Kingsford, and Clark will handle Sun Products brands Wisk, All and Snuggle as well as Northwestern Mutual. Anacker will report to Dennis Bajec, chief creative officer and Clark will report to Christopher Barcelona, executive creative director. Most recently Anacker was a freelancer working for clients such as EA Sports and CBS Interactive. Prior to that, he held stints at Young & Rubicam, BBDO, and Swirl Integrated Marketing. Most recently Clark was creative …

Brent Smart was named CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi New York. Smart is currently a worldwide managing director at Saatchi & Saatchi New York. He succeeds Durk Barnhill, who becomes Business Development Director for Saatchi & Saatchi’s global transformation team. Both men will report to Kevin Roberts, CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide. Previously, Smart spent seven years with BBDO. First he ran Colenso BBDO in New Zealand, and then transferred to lead BBDO’s West Coast operations as managing director of BBDO San Francisco. Barnhill will be responsible for building digital capacity in the Saatchi & Saatchi network and identifying …

The Boston office of Arnold Worldwide promoted Jose Luis Martinez, Craig Miller, Sean McBride and Erik Enberg from senior vice president, creative directors to group creative directors.

Ariana Stolarz joined MRM as executive vice president, strategy director, MRM East. Stolarz comes to MRM from mcgarrybowen where she was most recently managing director, digital strategy & social media.

Kief Davidson joined B-Reel’s commercial director roster.

Bader Rutter & Associates hired Ryann Greve as chief marketing officer to oversee new business development and promote the agency’s brand.

Punchh hired Jonathan Fornaci as chief operating officer.