McKinney promoted Liz Paradise from group creative director to executive creative director. In her new role, Paradise will continue leading the creative on the Nationwide account, while aiding the agency with new creative opportunities. With more than two decades as an award-winning copywriter and creative director at McKinney, Paradise has won awards for work on Karastan, Audi, Polaris and EAS. She has served as a judge at Cannes, the One Show and Art Directors Club award shows. In early 2015, she led the team behind Nationwide's Super Bowl spot, starring Mindy Kaling. "Liz is one of the most kick-ass creative …

Argonaut hired Matt Ashworth to executive creative director and promoted David Kim to executive creative director. The pair will report to Rick Condos and Hunter Hindman, chief creative officers of the San Francisco-based agency. Ashworth and Kim will handle creative for clients like Cricket Wireless, Fitbit, Hershey and MetLife. A freelancer, Ashworth has more than 20 years of experience, working for Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Hal Riney & Partners, Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners and The Martin Agency. He has created award-winning work for Jeep, TD Ameritrade, Chevrolet, HP, Appleton Estate Rum and Fitbit. Kim has more than 12 years …

TBWA\Paris tapped Benjamin Marchal and Faustin Claverie as executive creative directors. The pair will lead 110 creatives of the agency. Marchal started his career in 2004 as an art director at DDB. He remained at the agency for eight years, working on clients such as INPES Tabac, l'Equipe, Greenpeace, Lipton Yellow and VoyagesSNCF.com. He then joined BBDO, creating campaigns for La Redoute, Mercedes, Guy Cotten and Audi. Most recently, he served as executive creative director at Fred & Farid. Claverie began his career in 2001 at V, working on Volkswagen, 9telecom and 118 218. In 2006, he joined DDB and …

Adam Kerj was named chief creative officer of McCann Worldgroup's Nordic agencies, based out of McCann Stockholm. Most recently, Kerj was chief creative officer of JWT New York, a position he held since 2014. Prior to JWT NY, Kerj worked at 360i New York as the company's first US chief creative officer. Before that, he was executive creative director and founding partner at Saatchi & Saatchi Sweden. "Talent is everything. And when you have the opportunity to bring back somebody as skilled as Adam to one of the most creative regions in the world, you sure as hell take it," …

Goodby Silverstein & Partners promoted creative directors Will Elliott and Justin Moore to associate partners. Elliott joined the agency in 2001 from the Creative Circus. He works predominantly on Adobe and Cisco. For Adobe, he helped create a new antibullying emoji, which is part of the "I Am a Witness" campaign, and "Dream On," which celebrates 25 years of Photoshop. Throughout his career at GS&P, Elliott has worked on all the agency's major clients, including HP, Hyundai, Netflix and Haagen-Dazs. Justin Moore joined GS&P from BBH London in 2012. He has managed creative on the Cisco account for the last …

Stephen G. Smith was named editor in chief of National Journal, and Ben Pershing was promoted to managing editor.

Carrie Bergman joined InterMedia Advertising as vice president of radio affiliate sales to spearhead the growth of the company's unwired radio network – CPM Radio.

Accordant Media hired Ashli Walkiewicz as managing director, west; Stacy Morgan as group account director, west; and Adam McLane as senior media analyst.

Billups tapped Rick Robinson as chief operating officer and Matt Leible as chief marketing officer.

Iron Claw hired Brian Butcher as executive producer.