Sorenson Media hired Matt Timothy as chief commercial officer. Timothy will be responsible for business development, sales and marketing. He joins Sorenson from Vindico Group, where he served as president.

Matter Unlimited hired Alexandra Gordon as account managing director and Jake Kahana as creative director.

Discovery Communications hired Jean-Thierry Augustin as president, Sports Strategy & Development in a newly created position at Discovery Networks International, and Peter Hutton was named chief executive officer of Eurosport.

zkipster named Julian Jaeger as chief business officer. Jaeger recently served as director of partnerships for the Clinton Global Initiative.

Kavitha Mariappan was named vice president of marketing at Databricks.

CelebTV hired Rachelle McCray as host of its digital series and annual network television specials.

StrongView hired Dave Frankland as chief strategy officer.

Cutters added Heather Richardson as a producer. Previously, she was a producer for Cosmo Street Editorial in New York.

SQAD hired Debra Meyer as chief revenue officer and head of sales. She will be responsible for sales and partnerships for all of SQAD's products, including media planning product Mediatools offered by Workhorse Software.

Mike Pons joined Ovation TV as senior vice president of content distribution. Scott Woodward was promoted to executive vice president, programming and production.