Deutsch LA named Donn Rohn as executive vice president, group strategy director, to serve as lead strategist on the Volkswagen team. He will report to Lindsey Allison, executive vice president, co-director of strategy. Rohn began his career as a design strategist at Nissan Design America, working on products like the Z and Maxima. He also held leadership positions at WPP, Saatchi & Saatchi, TBWA\Chiat\Day and most recently at RPA. While at Saatchi & Saatchi, he led strategy for Toyota's "Tundra Endeavour," resulting in multiple award wins, including four Cannes Gold Lions. While at TBWA\Chiat\Day, he worked on the Cannes Lion-winning …

Joan Creative hired Dominique Ward as director of business operations and Megan Dwyer as strategy lead. Both will be based in New York and report to co-founders Jaime Robinson, chief creative officer and Lisa Clunie, chief executive officer. Ward is responsible for instituting state-of- the-art business systems, oversee the agency's Diversity Foundation and spearhead client collaborations. She joins the agency from frog, where she spent nearly six years as the lead analyst in business operations and strategy. While there, Ward helped develop global best practices and systems and was responsible for providing analysis, insights and recommendations to the firm's global …

Mother has made hired in its New York and Los Angeles offices. In New York, Michael Jacovides joins as creative director. He started his career in editorial, as a writer for The Face, Arena, Vogue and GQ. He joined BBH London in 2007 as a creative director on Burberry, Levis, Wolsey, Johnnie Walker and Audi. After 4 years, he joined Grey as creative director on Hugo Boss fragrances (Lacoste, Stella McCartney, Hugo Boss and Gucci). Most recently, worked as creative consultant for VCCP, Iris, Gucci and Peter Saville Studio. In Los Angeles, Romain Naegelen was named managing director. Maite Albuquerque …

eSentire named Nimrod (Nimmy) Reichenberg as chief marketing officer.

The Dalton Agency named Kassi Belz as vice president of public relations.

ChannelNet named Chris Sims as chief technology officer and Joe Karle as vice president of account management for the mid-western U.S. and Canada.

Jumpwire Media named Michelle Vega as account director and Brenna Kleiman as content creator & community manager.

EPIX named Sandy Ashendorf as executive vice president for content distribution.

Trusted Media Brands promoted Lee Zellweger to publisher at Reader's Digest.

Battery hired Max Kislevitz as a brand director.