Gyro launched gyro:human, a U.S. division dedicated to all aspects of the healthcare industry. Wendy Lurrie leads this newly formed division as managing director.

NBCUniversal's Hispanic Enterprises and Content tapped Gregory M. Resh as senior vice president, finance.

Saban Brands appointed Kendall Doty as vice president of digital.

PulsePoint tapped Mitchell Eisenberg as general counsel and senior vice president of corporate development.

Laura Desmond, global chief executive officer of Starcom MediaVest Group, has been named chair of the Board of Directors of the Advertising Council. She succeeds Debra L. Lee, chairman & chief executive officer of BET Networks. David Kenny, chief executive officer of The Weather Company, has been named as vice chair of media, joining vice chair of advertisers, David Christopher, CMO of AT&T Mobility. Desmond will be Board Chair through June 2015 when she will be succeeded by Mr. Christopher.

Carolyn Everson, vice president of global marketing solutions at Facebook, has been elected as chairman of the Board of Directors of Effie Worldwide. Daryl Lee, global chief executive officer at UM was elected vice chairman. Both have served as Effie board members since 2010.

PointRoll hired Hal Trencher as senior vice president of sales.

On Ideas hired Bryan Cherok as director of connections planning and optimization; Chris Nott as associate creative director; John Huggins as associate creative director-copywriting and Jason Kirk as director of business development.

Ebuzzing Chicago hired Nick Minucciani as vice president of sales for the Midwest region. He was most recently the director of sales at Vdopia.

TotallyHer Media hired Farrah Linden as beauty sales director.