Independent agency Ignited named Stacy Sanchez and Rich Kim as group media directors for the agency’s LA office. Both will work on the NBCUniversal account and report to Lindsey Kollross, senior vice president of media, Ignited. Most recently, Sanchez served as vice president, group account director at Initiative in Los Angeles where worked on the digital accounts for Art Institutes, Sega, Nvidia, Carl’s Jr./Hardees, Sonos, Lionsgate, and Dr Pepper Snapple Group. Prior to Initiative, she served as vice president, group client director at Starcom. While there she led strategy and innovation for the THQ account. Kim also joins Ignited from …

CP+B promoted Steve Erich from partner/managing director to president. In addition, Mike Saunter joined the agency as chief operating officer and Jeff Steinhour, one of the original four partners, has moved to the role of vice chairman. Erich joined the agency in 2004, was named a partner in 2008 and managing director in 2011.  Erich originally joined the agency to relaunch the Burger King brand in the US. He then moved to London in 2006 to establish European services for CP+B’s clients and manage the global Burger King business. He moved back to the US in 2007 to lead the …

DDB Chicago hired Tony Malcolm as executive creative director on the agency’s McDonald’s account. Previously, Malcolm was a creative director at Leo Burnett UK where he oversaw creative work for McDonald’s. He penned some of the brand’s more memorable work including the “Just Passing By” series of films that was one of the most awarded campaigns in the restaurant category in 2012. The campaign was also awarded the first-ever Cannes Gold Lion for Creative Effectiveness. During his eight-year stint at Leo Burnett, Malcolm also oversaw the UK Government’s Think! Road Safety campaigns. Malcolm began his career at Saatchi and Saatchi more …

Nickelodeon promoted Sharon Cohen to executive vice president, partnership marketing, at the Nickelodeon Group.

The 4A’s tapped Bill Tucker as executive vice president of media relations, based in New York.

The Financial Accounting Foundation named Robert W. Stewart as senior vice president, public affairs.

Active Interest Media announced that Courtney Matthews has returned to Backpacker magazine, where she began her career in publishing, to take the new position of director of integrated marketing of Backpacker and Climbing. The company also promoted Sheri and Randy Propster to events directors.

Vocus named Robert Schiess as vice president of marketing operations. He joins the company after 10 years at Dell, where he managed commercial marketing teams in the Americas.

The S3 Agency hired Tracey Jeffas as account supervisor; Michael D’Ambrosio as interactive art director; and Valarie Brummert as production artist.

Cordell BaanHofmaan was named vice president of strategic partners at Altitude Digital.