Kenshoo named Michel van Woudenberg formerly vice president of CRM for Oracle Asia Pacific, as managing director, Asia Pacific Japan.

Randy Minor has been named design director of ELLE.

JWT Worldwide promoted Peter Sherman, CEO of JWT New York, to CEO of JWT North America, replacing David Eastman. In addition, Claire Capeci, global business director at JWT New York, was promoted to managing director.

Mirriad named Roger Faxon as its non-executive chairman.

JWT New York appointed Andy Carrigan and Jon Zast, formerly global group creative directors at Anomaly, as executive creative directors.

TOPIX named Barbara Devaney as director of sales, eastern region.

Nicole Stein joined Vibrant Media as vice president of sales, east.

Dean Buckhorn joined Carmichael Lynch as group creative director.

Discovery Communications extended president and CEO David Zaslav's employment contract through the end of the decade.

IKA Collective hired Danielle Dardashti as senior vice president of sales and marketing.