NBCUniversal promoted Meara Abramson Valenzuela to senior vice president, planning and strategy, Hispanic enterprises and content.

GumGum hired Steven Wise as senior vice president of marketing. Wise will lead the company's product marketing programs, messaging strategy and industry communications to expand awareness of its in-image advertising platform among agencies, brands and publishers.

Digitaria hired Harlo Petoskey as interaction design director. Based in Digitaria's Minneapolis office, Petoskey will collaborate with team members from across the agency to create online experiences for clients. Petoskey brings more than fifteen years of interactive brand and marketing experience to Digitaria. Most recently, he served as the UX Lead at Colle+McVoy, where he created online experiences for Land O'Lakes, TakeMeFishing.org, and Winfield. Prior to that, Petoskey worked for both Creatis and Olson & Co., servicing accounts such as University of Minnesota, Bauer Hockey, Target and General Mills. "We're thrilled to have Harlo join our team at Digitaria," said …

Barton F. Graf 9000 hired Amanda Clelland as creative director on various agency account, including GoDaddy and Scotts Miracle-Gro brands Tomcat and Nature's Care. Previously, Clelland was a creative director at Droga5, working on Puma, The New Museum, Coca Cola and Vestas WindMade. In addition, she also helped launch an independent project focused eradicating extreme poverty. The project, backed by the UN, is called zeropointseven.org.

Wieden+Kennedy Sao Paulo hired Renato Simoes as executive creative director. Simoes joins executive creative director Icaro Doria and managing director Andre Gustavo in leading the office. Simoes joins the agency after spending almost nine years at AlmapBBDO, most recently as executive creative director, working on brands such as Volkswagen, Visa, Havaianas, Audi, AmBev and Pepsi. Prior to that, he had creative roles at F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett and Fischer America. Over the course of his career, Simoes' work has earned a number of awards from the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the CLIO Awards, the D&AD Professional …

TBWA\Chiat\Day LA tapped Chris Ribeiro and Drew Stalker as creative directors on the agency's Nissan account. The pair previously worked at fellow network agency, TBWA\Media Arts Lab. At TBWA\Media Arts Lab, Ribeiro and Stalker worked on several Apple campaigns, including the 2013 iPhone holiday spot, "Misunderstood," for which they were awarded 3 Film and Design Lions at this year's Cannes Lions Festival, as well as a silver One Show pencil, a gold Clio Award, and an Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Commercial of the Year. Stalker began his career as an art director at TBWA\Chiat\Day LA in 2005. In 2006, …

Resource/Ammirati hired Cybelle Srour as managing director of strategy. In this new role, Srour oversees the agency's strategic services discipline including integrated brand strategy, analytics, research, UX, social strategy and community management. Hailing from Toronto, Srour has worked for agencies like MacLaren McCann, DDB Canada, Proximity/BBDO, and most recently Energy BBDO in Chicago where she served as senior vice president and group digital planning director. Srour has worked with brands like Johnson & Johnson, General Motors, Nestle, Novartis, Lavalife, Monster.com, Mars, Dell, P&G, Bayer, SC Johnson and HP. "From the moment we met Cybelle, we knew she was the right …

BFG Communications named Richard Leslie as chief strategy officer, responsible for driving strategic thinking throughout all account teams.

Figliulo&Partners hired Nikhil Chawla as client partner, director of brand development; Jacob Perez as senior strategy director; and Sarah Nguyen as design director. Chawla, Perez and Nguyen will be working out of the agency's New York office.

Psyop announced a newly emerging Film and Television division with the recent senior hires of Kymber Lim, Dan Schrecker, Dan Levitan, Marshall Krasser for its three offices in Los Angeles, New York and Vancouver, British Columbia.