Ed Battle joined Aarki as chief operating officer.

truTV has hired three executive producers for its original programming team: Christine Walters, Mitchell Rosenbaum and Deb Savo. In addition, Brian Silbert has been hired as senior producer.

Kevin Batten has launched Pop-Arts Management, a management and production consulting firm.

Sean Foster was named CEO of Crowdtap.

Global production company B-Reel signed Stephanie Stephens for west coast representation in the U.S.

Michael D. Espindle was named group executive editor of Modern Luxury. 

Loyalkaspar hired Heidi Erney as executive producer and Janice Walbrink as director of business development.

Jason Ruebel and Kevin Gerl joined LISNR as vice president of operations/strategy and director of engineering, respectively.

Simulmedia hired David Cooperstein as chief marketing officer.

uSamp hired Joe Jordan as vice president, panel operations.