Goodby Silverstein & Partners hired Mike Long as creative director on Comcast/XFINITY. He will report to Margaret Johnson, executive creative director at GS&P. Long joins the agency from Droga5, where he served as content creative director, developing and directing digital content for clients such as Newcastle, Diet Coke and Johnsonville. Prior to Droga5, Long spent more than eight years as a commercials director for production company, Epoch Films. He also served as executive creative director at Saatchi & Saatchi, working on Coca-Cola, Sony, MTV, JCPenney and Heineken. "I've really loved my time at Droga5, and they're a great group of …

TBWA\Chiat\Day LA named Jerico Cabaysa as managing director on the Gatorade account, which the agency has handled since 2008. Cabaysa will lead the Gatorade team on all U.S. and global brand initiatives and report to Luis DeAnda, president of TBWA\Chiat\Day LA. This is a return to the agency for Cabaysa, who began his career working as an account executive on the Playstation, XM Satellite Radio and Rock the Vote accounts. Most recently, Cabaysa was an account director at Wieden + Kennedy New York on the Jordan and Sprite brands. He led team that produced Jordan's #RE2PECT campaign to honor Derek …

R/GA promoted Anthony Romano to senior vice president, client services for the U.S. He will be responsible for overseeing and evolving the client services practice across R/GA's U.S offices. Romano will also manage, retain and grow client relationships. He will report to Bob Greenberg, founder, chairman, and CEO of R/GA. Most recently, Romano was senior vice president, group managing director of R/GA New York, overseeing R/GA New York's work for Samsung, TD Bank, Braun, Loews Hotels, Coca-Cola and Converse. Prior to R/GA, Romano was the global head of agency development at AOL and executive vice president, worldwide group account director …

Omelet named Thas Naseemuddeen as chief strategy officer. Naseemuddeen joins the agency from Deutsch LA where she served as vice president, group strategy director, leading strategic efforts for brands like Target, Georgia Pacific and HTC, among others. Naseemuddeen will be responsible for leading the company's strategy department and working with the company's new business team to attract future partnerships. She has more than nine years of experience working at agencies like TBWA\Chiat\Day, Team One, BBH LA, and Deutsch LA, on brands like Google, Pepsi, Red Bull, Lexus and Diamond Foods. "Thas is a highly experienced strategist and leader," said Don …

Alex Lubar was named CEO of McCann London. He currently serves as chief marketing officer of McCann Worldgroup's New York office, and will begin his new role in January, 2016. Lubar succeeds Zaid Al-Zaidy and will work closely with joint ECDs and presidents Rob Doubal and Lolly Thomson in his new role. Lubar, a UK native, joined McCann in 2012 as chief marketing officer of McCann North America, where he oversaw all new business activity and led the efforts that resulted in the addition of new clients such as the United States Postal Service, Lockheed Martin, Zurich Insurance, SABIC, and …

Gage hired Bryan LaSell as a senior software developer, working on client Microsoft's Educator Community.

MediaMonks New York hired David Estis as creative director.

M&C Saatchi LA hired John Leung as director of creative technology and Jamie Ortega as digital account director.

Experian Marketing Services hired Bridget Bidlack as vice president of global product management.

Beanstalk elevated Allison Ames to chief executive officer, succeeding co-founder and CEO, Michael Stone, who will assume the role of chairman.