Deutsch LA hired Tara Greer as executive vice president/executive creative director, platform. Since January 2013, Greer has served as executive creative director of R/GA's LA Office. She helped launched the office and grew the team to forty-five employees in a year and a half, building the creative group that crafted award-winning work for Beats by Dre's Pills and Hear What You Want integrated campaigns along with winning several new business pitches. Greer has lead teams to produce well-known products and services like the Nike+ Fuelband, One Nike+, NIKEiD, NikeTeam and the Converse Sampler App. "Over the last few years, we've …

Publicis Seattle hired Ryan Stoner as strategy director, a new position. He will lead strategic development for pieces of the T-Mobile account, including retail, device relationships, B2B, sponsorship business segments and the brand's digital/mobile experiences. Stoner will report to Britt Fero, chief strategy officer of Publicis Seattle. Most recently, Stoner was the founder of two startups: MoPix, where he served as CEO; and Switchcam, where he worked as vice president of business strategy and new business. Prior to that, he worked on the agency side at B-Reel, Omelet and Publicis on brands such HP, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Activision and InBev. …

Michael Canning joined the creative leadership team at 72andSunny as group director. Canning comes to Los Angeles after four years as managing partner, executive creative director at Leo Burnett New York. A native of Sydney Australia, Canning began his career when he won a scholarship to Central Saint Martins University of the Arts, London. He then joined Lowe Hunt Sydney, where his work for Unilever, "Lynx Jet," won the Cannes Media Grand Prix. Canning then joined Leo Burnett's Sydney office, working on Canon, Diageo and World Wildlife Fund. Leo Burnett then invited Canning to launch a new office for the …

Jodi Lipe was named senior vice president, marketing for Ovation.

Maxus hired Jonathan Adams as chief digital officer in North America. He joins Maxus from iCrossing, where he was senior vice president and lead of North American media.

Lotame opened a Sydney office and hired Ian Curd as commercial director for Australia and New Zealand.

Centro hired Kristin Haarlow as regional vice president, media strategy and operations for the west.

Ebuzzing & Teads hired Christophe Parcot, former head of Yahoo! EMEA, as chief operating officer.

Shuttlecraft, a full-service production company offering live-action, VFX, animation, editorial and postproduction, has been launched in New York by partners Ronnie Koff and Dan Dickenson.

AnalogFolk New York hired David Fausel as managing director and Zach Pentel as strategy director.