People on the Move
Tuesday, August 21, 2007

  • ROBYN FINK was promoted to account supervisor at MWW Group.


  • Minyanville Publishing and Multimedia named WILL SUAREZ to the position of vice president, advertising sales. Suarez was most recently sales director at PointRoll.


  • Stand Advertising promoted KELLY WAITE-STABLER to account executive on the Fairgrounds Gaming & Raceway, Greatbatch, Electrochem and Cliffstar accounts.

     


  • EPrize hired JEFFREY ERSHLER as vice president, Mousetrap, and JOE KELLER as vice president, technology operations.


  • The New York Hall of Science promoted CAROL NORDIN to assistant director of communications. Nordin implements and manages the museum's online marketing.


  • Upshot promoted PATRICK LYMAN to vice president, creative services; CHRIS MARTINIANO to vice president, creative services; and LISA HURST to vice president, account management.


  • CHRIS PINEL was named strategy supervisor for OMD, focusing on the Infiniti National business. He joins the agency from Crispin Porter + Bogusky.


  • CJ OLIVARES was promoted to general manager of action sports lifestyle network FUEL TV.


  • SCOTT HELGANS was named sales and marketing director for In The Deep Productions.


  • LESLIE SINGER was named creative officer of G2 Branding & Design to lead the group’s design team in North America. In addition, LAURA MOSER was named senior partner, director of client services for G2 Promotional Marketing, Chicago. She joins the company from DRAFTFCB Chicago, where she served as vice president account director in charge of shopper and consumer marketing for P&G clients including Olay, Cover Girl and Gillette.


  • ERIC BROWN was named executive vice president of affiliate sales at The Africa Channel. He was most recently president of Western Division Operations for Charter Communications.


  • SCOTT BIGGERS joined Omnicom’s The Marketing Arm as group concept director, a new position. Biggers joined the agency from hawkeye, where he served as vice president/group creative director.


  • MAUREEN DEMPSEY was named executive editor at Tango; JYL ELIAS was named evp sales and marketing; and STEPHANIE RUBIN was named vp of sales and marketing.


  • SCOTT HIDINGER was promoted to vice president, associate creative director, up from senior art director at Deutsch LA and MARK MOLL was named vice president, associate creative director, up from senior copywriter.


  • LILIA ARROYO FLORES joined TPN as senior planner. Flores will manage planning activities for the agency’s Wal-Mart business, as well as continue growing TPN’s Retail Marketing Practice. Prior to joining TPN, Flores was vice president, strategic planning director at Draftfcb in Chicago.


  • TAXI reorganized its leadership in Canada, naming ROB GUENETTE president of TAXI Canada and DANIEL RABINOWICZ president of TAXI Content. Guenette joined TAXI in 2004 as president of the Toronto office and Rabinowicz was named president of TAXI Montreal in 2004.


  • CBS Corporation restructured its interactive sales team, tapping RICHARD CALACCI to head CBS SportsLine.com and CBS Mobile; KENNETH LAGANA will head the CBS Audience Network, CBS.com and CBSNews.com; and KEVIN MENARD will head Last.fm. Calacci, Lagana and Menard will additionally hold the title of senior vice president, CBS interactive.


  • MWW Group promoted LOUISE THACH to account director.


  • JIM SEXTON was named senior vice president and editorial director of TIME Inc.'s SPC Digital; STEVE ZALES joined as senior vice president and general manager; ANDREA DICASTRO joined as executive producer; and DANE SORENSEN was named marketing director.


  • Reuters Media promoted STEPHEN SMYTH to senior vice president; ROSALINATHOMAS, vice president for media sales Americas, was elevated to lead the Reuters News Agency sales teams in the US, Canada and Latin America;STETT TRIPPE was promoted to vice president, national advertising sales; and LIZ AIRHART was hired as director of trade marketing.


  • The VIA Group hired CHARLES KIBORT as a media planner on TD Banknorth.


  • Mercado Software named JUSTIN FOLEY as vice president of North American sales.


  • Access 360 Media hired BILL POWERS as executive vice president of network advertising sales, after an eight-year stint at Traffic.com.


  • Time Inc. Business and Finance Network named DAN BORCHERT as worldwide luxury director. Borchert was previously the executive luxury director at Vanity Fair.


  • Ignited named ANNE-MARIE SCHAFFER as senior vice president of media. She joins the agency from Mediaedge:cia’s New York office, where she was managing partner/director, strategic planning.


  • Toth Brand Imaging promoted MARGARET ROYSTON to general manager, up from director of creative services.


  • HENRY “HANK” BOYE was named publisher of Harvard Business Review. Boye, formerly general manager of the National Journal Group, will lead the magazine’s commercial activities, including worldwide advertising sales, consumer marketing and business development.


  • JOELLE ANDERSON joined Zillow.com as director of advertising solutions & operations. In addition, ANDREW WILD was named account executive and MELISSA FINNEY was appointed senior account executive.


  • BRAD FREDRICKS joined VBS.TV as director of marketing.


  • CURTIS FULLMER was named director of affiliate marketing for Filinet.


  • LISA MONAGO joined Video Egg as Midwest director.


  • JULIE HERRON joined McClain Finlon as account supervisor and ANTHONY PERRET was named project manager.


  • DDB Canada opened a new office in Victoria, British Columbia. MICHAEL ALLABARTON and HUGH RUTHVEN were tapped to co-manage the new office. In addition, JASON DAUPHINEE was named senior art director.


  • Active Response Group named KIM SMITH chief operating officer. Smith will be responsible for driving overall corporate strategy and establishing strategic business partnerships. Before joining Active Response Group, Smith served as senior vice president of Q Interactive.