Dave Brown was named executive producer of MetroFocus.

Javier Plana joined YouAppi in London as director of business development and Yael Khan joins the Berlin office as head of business development.

MPC Los Angeles hired Steward Burris as head of animation, Zach Tucker as VFX supervisor, George Saavedra as rigging lead, Brian Broussard as texture and look development supervisor and Matthew Maude as head of lighting. In addition, Charles Trippe was promoted to head of FX.

Carl Gerlach was named CEO at Ruby's Naturals.

Performics hired Joe Reinstein as executive vice president of integrated services.

4INFO tapped Ken Mallon as chief product officer.

JP Bommel was named managing director and chief operating officer of NATPE//Content First.

Joyce Tse joined Generator Media + Analytics as a senior communications strategy planner; Rachel Berg as a communications strategy director and Jonathan Pena as digital ad operations assistant.

Lisa Pearson was named chief marketing officer at Umbel.

Tremor Video hired John Rego as chief financial officer.