Brightline Interactive tapped Julie Mays as vice president of strategic engagement.

Robin Saitz was named chief marketing officer of Brainshark.

MING Utility And Entertainment Group named Brad Blondes partner/chief design officer.

ChoiceStream promoted Kelly Mathyssen to regional sales director of San Francisco and Jason Smith to regional sales director of the Rocky Mountain region.

IMRE hired John Bentz as senior vice president for its consumer practice.

Fuse Media, Inc., parent company of Fuse and NUVOtv networks, promoted Sharoan R. Harris to senior vice president of pricing and planning. Harris most recently served as vice president of pricing and planning for the company.

AKQA promoted Masaya Nakade, Jason McCann and Sung Chang to executive creative directors. Nakade is based in London, while McCann and Chang are based in New York.

Lance Richard was promoted to vice president/market manager for Entercom Sacramento.

Brunner, Pittsburgh, hired Kevin Amos as vice president, search and analytics and Dan Gbur as vice president, digital business development.

Richard Coolidge, who most recently spent more than two decades at ABC News, will join PBS NewsHour in the newly created position of senior content and partnerships producer.