Rebecca Traister and Amanda Fortini have been named contributing editors at ELLE.

GMR hired Philip Patterson as senior vice president of client management. Patterson comes to GMR from IMG Consulting in London, where, as vice president, he managed Olympic sponsorships for brands including British Airways, Rio Tinto and BT.

Darline Jean, former CEO and president of About.com, was named COO of PulsePoint.

Ogilvy & Mather New York hired Jenny Gadd as executive director of content production. In this new role, Gadd will oversee O&M's broadcast and online video producers, as well as business affairs, talent and broadcast operations. Most recently, she served as head of integrated production at Johannes Leonardo, working with such clients as Coca-Cola, Bacardi and Google.

NetSeer hired Jeremy Wallace as director of programmatic media sales.

Phluant Mobile named Steven James Burks as senior vice president of data products and partnership.

Ken Nelson has joined Collective as senior vice president, brand insights group.

Corbis Entertainment, a division of Corbis, tapped Corey Silverman as head of global sales leading the company’s sales efforts targeting media agencies and brands.

Mode Media named Steven Sottile as vice president of sales/east. Sottile was previously vice president of digital media at Reader's Digest where he led media sales and ad operations for the company’s digital brands.

Barry Garbarino joined Collective as vice president of marketing strategy and events.