People on the Move
Tuesday, August 14, 2007

  • McClain Finlon hired TERUAH WIELAND as assistant media planner and AUTUMN BUEHLER as recruitment coordinator.


  • KEVIN D. OMANS and SANDY SCHADLER have been named senior vice presidents and SHARON M. CONDRON has been named vice president in Campbell-Ewald’s digital division.


  • Agency.com namedSTEVEN NASI as creative director and DAVID SANSONE as director of information architecture in its New York office.


  • IVA CAMPISANO joined CNNMoney.com as west coast sales director. She previously served as southwest sales manager for BusinessWeek.com.


  • ANGELIKA KAPRELIAN joined Simmons Research as the brand manager for the National Consumer Study. JENIFER ONG-MEYERS was named vice president and director of eastern region agency sales; PATRICIA LAO was hired as a marketing specialist; and STACEY ALBERT was named product analyst.


  • eMarketer hired MICKEY ALAM KHAN as editor in chief, a new position. Alam Khan will manage the editorial operations of the market research firm, leading the analyst team and overseeing more than 80 reports a year, as well as the content of the daily newsletter. Most recently, he was editor in chief of DM News.


  • MSG Media named CHRIS MONTELEONE to the newly created role of vice president of distribution marketing for MSG Interactive. Most recently, Monteleone was director of digital development and sales for Rainbow Media where he helped build the overall digital strategy for Rainbow and its 21 networks.


  • VICKI HAMILTON joined Turner Broadcasting System’s operations and strategy group as senior vice president of enterprise performance. Hamilton comes to TBS from Cinema Screen Media, where she served as chief operating officer overseeing sales, business and IT operations.


  • kirshenbaum bond + partners promoted AMY EAGLE, director of account management at kirshenbaum bond and ARIC CHESTON, creative director at Dotglu to partners.


  • COURTNEY COOK was named account manager, digital for Parade.


  • Eyeblaster named TONY KYBERD as vice president of account management and services for North America.


  • Marchex named BILL DAY as chief media officer. In this newly created role, Day will oversee Marchex’s media strategy, including its online content, consumer-facing initiatives and related advertising strategies. Most recently, Day was a co-founder and CEO of About.com.


  • Tribal DDB named THOMAS TAFUTO as executive creative director of the Dallas office. He joins Tribal from JDK, where he served as director of interactive.


  • The Financial Times named ANDY DAVIS as editor, FT Weekend. Davis succeeds MICHAEL SKAPINKER, who edited the weekend edition of the Financial Times since July 2005. Davis recently served as development editor.


  • Denuo promoted CHRISTIAN KUGEL to senior vice president. Kugel manages the unit's proprietary measurement and analytics toolset and currently oversees Denuo's Hewlett-Packard account. Prior to joining Denuo, Kugel was an account group director at Millward Brown, where he managed multi-national research initiatives for blue chip technology clients.


  • Nielsen Business Media named ANDY HARTNETT director, business development, marketing & media group. Hartnett joins Nielsen from Knight Ridder where he was tapped to lead sales for the print to online transformation in their automotive category with cars.com.


  • Kilgannon hired BETSY APPLEBY as supervisor, brand management.


  • Cooking Light named DEIRDRE O’CONNOR as account manager, covering the Wisconsin and Louisiana markets, as well as accounts in the Chicago area, such as Quaker and Bayer. O’Connor joins Cooking Light from Hallmark magazine’s Midwest sales team.


  • TAMARA WHITTAKER joined Pinstripe Marketing as project manager, responsible for agency job management and business development support.


  • GREGG STECKLER joined Wired.com as Midwest sales manager.


  • SCOTT SPAULDING, most recently the director of southeast sales for ValueClick Media, has been promoted to vice president of west coast sales.


  • HomeandRoad named FRANCES KIRADJIAN chief travel officer. Kiradjian, CEO of The Kiradjian Group, will develop strategic relations, assist with Web site travel features and build relationships with the travel industry.


  • JAMIE FORREST was hired as east coast director of sales at Technorati.


  • Fox Interactive Media named CHARLIE BARRETT to the position of senior vice president sales for IGN Entertainment. Most recently, he served as vice president of sales for CNET Networks.


  • BusinessWeeknamed ISAAC SACOLICK as vice president of technology and BOB TEREE as vice president of product management.


  • R/GA promoted CHLOE GOTTLIEB to vice president, executive creative director of interaction design, replacing KIP VOYTEK.


  • ROBERT WALCH joined Wizzard Media as vice president of podcaster relations and LILITH RUGEL was appointed director of advertising sales operations.


  • Organic hired MINNA RHEE as senior vice president and general manager of the agency’s New York office. Rhee was client director at Avenue A | Razorfish. Additionally, ADAM TURINAS was named senior vice president of client engagement.


  • INGRID EBERLY joined Meredith Interactive Media as marketing director.


  • GEORGE DICOSTANZO joined X+1 advertising, as director of advertising operations.


  • St. John & Partners hired MONICA BERRYMAN as a media buying assistant serving the firm’s Zaxby’s, Ford and Terrell Hogan accounts and JAMIE MACKEY as an assistant media planner on the firm’s Smoothie King, Terrell Hogan and Zaxby’s accounts.