Stoltz Marketing Group hired Ward Duft as creative director and Bill Doty as digital media producer.

David Anders was promoted to managing director of Javelin West, based in Seattle. Anders will also retain his previous role as vice president, client services.

Solve hired Janelle Erickson as a senior writer to work across accounts including Bentley Motors, Organic Valley and True Value.  She spent the past four years in Dubai working at TBWA and Leo Burnett. 

Resource promoted Lora Schaeffer to vice president of social, a new position at the agency. Schaeffer will lead all social media efforts from the company's Columbus office and report to Kelly Mooney, CEO of Resource.

AKQA tapped Ginny Golden as creative director of its Portland office. She will partner with creative director Whitney Jenkins to lead the agency’s creative department. Golden joins the agency after two years at Wieden + Kennedy Portland. She is no stranger to AKQA, having previously spent 14 years in the agency’s Washington, D.C. office. AKQA’s clients include Anheuser-Busch, Audi, Google, Levi’s, Nike, Target, Verizon and Visa.

Deutsch NY promoted three members from its creative department. Jeremy Bernstein was elevated from senior vice president, group creative director to executive vice president, group creative director; Matt McKay from executive vice president  group creative director to executive creative director; and Jeffrey Vinick from executive vice president, group creative director to executive creative director.

Spark hired Chris Mittman as vice president, director of digital, of the Chicago-based agency. Most recently, he worked at Google as a senior account executive, online retail, helping advertisers achieve marketing goals via relevant Google solutions. In his new role, Mittman will report to Shelby Saville, executive vice president, managing director, and  lead digital strategy for various Spark clients in the healthcare, retail and financial markets. Before joining Google, Mittman worked at Performics, Inc. in Chicago as a group account director on the Paid Search team, working with clients such as Microsoft, …

TBWA\Chiat\Day New York named Kyla Jacobs as director of business development, reporting to president, Robert Harwood-Matthews. Jacobs will spearhead the new business drive for TBWA’s New York office, whose clients include Michelin, Jameson and GSK. Most recently, she was director of business development in Europe for Crispin Porter + Bogusky (London) where she led winning European pitches for Coke Zero, Diesel, Ubisoft and Captain Morgan, and most recently, the global Turkish Airlines account. Jacobs' appointment sees her return to the TBWA network, having previously worked at the Sydney-based WHYBIN\TBWA office. 

Christine Castro was named senior vice president, communications for CBS Interactive.  

Machinima named Steve Arndt as director, partner development.