People on the Move
Tuesday, October 17, 2006

  • ERIK WENNEROD has been appointed vice president of customer relationship marketing at Dotglu. Wennerod joins Dotglu after spending 10 years at DraftFCB, as director of customer relationship marketing. While there, he established consumer-driven marketing programs for a wide range of clients, including Johnson's Baby, Nestle/Purina, Verizon Wireless, AstraZeneca, Audi, Bank of America, HP/Compaq and Duracell.


  • Sigma Group has named DEENA WEINBERG as associate media director. In this position, Weinberg is responsible for the overall planning and placement of media buys on behalf of Sigma's clients. Most recently, she worked at Disney/ABC Cable Networks Group as director of media planning. In that position, she directed all consumer and trade media planning and buying, and managed relationships with media agencies and vendors on behalf of Disney/ABC's four wholly owned cable networks.


  • WILLIAM LEVY has joined Greater Than One. Most recently, he worked at Move.com as a senior account executive for Realtor.com.


  • SALVATORE PETRUZZI has been promoted to senior vice president of public relations for Turner Broadcasting System’s Turner Ad Sales and Marketing unit. With his promotion, Petruzzi adds oversight of public relations and publicity efforts supporting Turner Sports, the company’s sports production and programming unit. Petruzzi joined Turner Broadcasting in 2003 from A&E Television, where he was director of public affairs and communications.


  • WALLY KRANTZ joined Enterprise IG US as executive creative director for the U.S. region. Krantz was most recently creative director at FutureBrand New York, where he led a team in the repositioning and development of the MasterCard Worldwide corporate brand and system.


  • Bravo Miami has expanded its resources and named ERIC HOYT, president of Young & Rubicam Miami and Wunderman Miami, to lead the effort.


  • BRIAN MCWILLIAMS has joined Carat Fusion as senior vice president, director of finance. In addition, BILL HEWSON recently joined the agency as vice president, director of account services. Most recently, he worked for Tribal DDB.


  • DOUG CHAVEZ has joined Yahoo as director of ad solutions. Chavez joins Yahoo from Tribal DDB Chicago, where he led the McDonald's USA business.


  • TDA Advertising & Design has hired TERI FILDEY as director of client services, a new position. She assumes day-to-day management on all accounts from agency founder THOMAS DOOLEY, who remains president. Previously, Fildey was account supervisor on Nike at Wieden & Kennedy, Portland, Ore.


  • MARY KATHERINE HEATH has joined Door Number 3 as director of media. She joins the company from MediaVest Worldwide where she served as assistant media director and worked on accounts such as Kraft (Nabisco Crackers) and Coca-Cola.


  • Mediaedge:cia has named COURTNEY KASEY communications strategy director and associate media director. Kasey will be responsible for strategic communications planning and implementation for MEC’s Land Rover account. She joins MEC from Doner, where as media supervisor she was responsible for developing highly targeted strategic communications plans and effective campaigns for multiple clients.


  • MICHAEL H. KROGERMEIER has joined TACODA as vice president, corporate strategy & development. Most recently, Krogermeier was senior director, corporate strategy & development for PanAmSat Corporation.


  • BRYAN EVERETT has joined Kontera as senior vice president of sales. In this role, he leads Kontera's sales and service efforts required to drive advertising revenue growth. Prior to joining Kontera, he served as senior vice president of sales and operations for LookSmart.


  • Discovery Communications has reorganized its media planning and partnerships team. TERESA GOFF and DANELLE SABATHIER were named new media marketing directors for the New Media team. BRAD FEINBERG was named media director, SHELLIE MARSHALL was named media marketing supervisor and KRISTI CANNATA was named media manager for The Discovery Channel, Science Channel, Discovery Times Channel and Military Channel. CHRISTOPHER KANE was named media director, KELLY FRIEDLANDER was named media manager and ADRIANA JOUVANIS was appointed on air media supervisor of The TLC, Animal Planet, Discovery Home Channel and Discovery Kids.


  • SHAWNA SELDON has been promoted to vice president of The Rosen Group. Prior to joining the company, she worked for Porter Novelli International on Consumer Healthcare accounts.


  • BILL SULLIVAN has joined Centro as managing director of sales for the southeast region. He joins the company from Cox Enterprises, where he served as national online sales manager.


  • RALPH RIVERA will expand his role at AOL to oversee AOL Latino as vice president and general manager, while also remaining in charge of AOL Games. Before joining AOL, Rivera held executive and staff positions at Pearson, Simon & Schuster, Deloitte & Touche, and IBM.


  • Radar magazine and Radar Online have named SAVERIO MONTELEONE and MATTHEW SMITH as senior account managers and CHRISTOPHER LINDQUIST as an account manager in the advertising sales department.


  • RENEE M. FRASER was promoted to senior account executive at NextMedia Outdoor.


  • Siegel+Gale has promoted CYNTHIA (“THIA”) REGGIO as director of the firm’s simplification group.


  • MSNBC.com has promoted ASHLEY WELLS and ROBERT HOOD to its editorial leadership team. Wells will serve as creative director overseeing MSNBC.com's overall creative design. Hood will serve as director of multimedia.


  • imc² has named CAROLINE YOON as senior account executive; CAROLYN MAHONEY as senior project manager; COLLIE TURNER as account manager; LAURA HAYES as senior project manager; and LEIGH RENFER as project manager.


  • SHELLEY WATSON was named vice president director of entertainment at RPA. She will lead the media team for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. Watson most recently worked for Starcom as leader of the Broadcast Investment Group.


  • MEG COURTNEY-CAVANAUGH has joined the YES Network as account executive, advertising sales. Courtney-Cavanaugh arrives at YES from WCBS-TV in New York, where she was an account executive since 1997.


  • VNU Business Media has promoted JOHN KILCULLEN, president of the Music/Literary/Jewelry Group and publisher of Billboard, to president of the Film and Performing Arts Group and publisher of The Hollywood Reporter.