Assembly, MDC's full-service media agency, hired Khartoon Weiss as chief client and marketing officer. Most recently, she served as senior vice president of business development at MDC Partners. She will be based in New York and report to Martin Cass, CEO of both MDC Media Partners and Assembly. Before MDC Partners, Weiss was managing director and chief growth officer at MediaCom, overseeing the agency's North American operations and business development. Prior to that, Weiss was vice president of integrated marketing solutions at iHeartMedia, where she helped launch and lead the national, cross-platform division, working with American Express, AB InBev and …

Tongal named Vaughan Emsley as head of strategy and client development. Emsley joins Tongal from Saatchi & Saatchi, where he was global CEO of the Procter & Gamble business.

Discovery Digital Networks named Bernard Ho as vice president, partnerships and development.

MUH-TAY-ZIK | HOF-FER named David Gonzales as director of strategy.

Swift named Scott MacEachern as vice president of strategic growth.

Cision named Kevin Akeroyd, former general manager and senior vice president at Oracle Marketing Cloud, as its CEO.

Goodway Group named John Merryman as chief technology officer.

Michael Moroney joined Genuine as managing director.

BBDO Toronto named Paul Reilly as chief operating officer and Rosie Gentile as senior vice president, connections strategy, data and insights.

Giant Spoon hired Pierre Parisot as vice president, strategic account management. Parisot will work in the West Coast office, helping to run the Old Navy account, while also building a new kind of account management practice for the agency.