Tuesday, May 11, 2010
- Firstborn
Firstborn welcomes back past employee, Gabriel Garner, as digital production director. In his role, Garner will oversee all production on the direct-to-client side at Firstborn, which includes both project-based and ongoing relationships for brands like Aflac, Pepsi, Wrigley and JetBlue. Garner most recently served as director of interactivity at Sarkissian Mason, where he focused on digital ideation, design, and product development for Mazda, Boeing, HBO and ESPN. - Demandbase
Demandbase hired Greg Ott as chief marketing officer. Most recently, Ott served as senior vice president, marketing at Classmates.com. - McCann Midwest
Barbara Yolles was named executive vice president, chief marketing officer for McCann Midwest. Yolles joins McCann from Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal + Partners in New York, where she served as executive vice president, group managing director. - TargetCast tcm
TargetCast tcm hired Lisa Spielman as senior vice president, director of business development. - Saatchi & Saatchi LA
Saatchi & Saatchi LA hired Jason Nichols as creative director; Dave Evans as senior integrated producer; Donnell Johnson as associate creative director/copywriter; and Gary Rosen as associate creative director/copywriter. - Moxie Interactive
Moxie Interactive hired Greg Asman as the vice president of analytics. He joins the agency from Aspen Marketing where he was the director of digital analytics and social media. - Cramer-Krasselt
Cramer-Krasselt hired Killian Schaffer as vice president, strategy director, CRM; Kristina Peterson-Lohman as vice president, public relations management supervisor; Steve Mann as vice president, account supervisor, public relations and Matt MacDonell as senior vice president, director of brand planning. - Initiative
Initiative hired Christiana Messina as vice president, strategy director. She joins Initiative from Ogilvy West, where she was a senior account planner, working on clients including Cisco Technologies and Nature Made. - Mr Youth
Mr Youth appointed Jamie Egasti to its board of directors. - Wieden+Kennedy
Wieden+Kennedy promoted Jerome Austria to executive creative director of W+K New York. He replaces executive creative director Todd Waterbury, who recently left the agency. - iris
iris restructured its North American management team. Stewart Shanley serves as joint global CEO and co-founder of iris; Sean Reynolds was named joint global creative director; John Baker was named regional digital director; Ben Essen was tapped as head of planning; Matt McRoberts as head of business development; and Zeyd Rahman as new business director. - AKQA San Francisco
Lisa Bari was hired by AKQA San Francisco as director of client services for its Search team. Bari joins AKQA from Covario where she was a senior account director. - VEVO
VEVO named Michael Iantosca as vice president, east coast sales and Luke Kallis as vice president, west coast sales. - Focus 360
Focus 360's National Focus division opened a Detroit office to be run by Thomas O'Brien as Midwest regional manager. O'Brien joins the company from Westwood One Radio Networks, where he was regional director/Midwest region. - Catalyst
Catalyst Direct has rebranded its agency as Catalyst. Steve Khederian was named analytics director, as was Kevin Seaman. In addition, Damir Saracevic was promoted to director, digital marketing, up from director, interactive marketing. - Brunner
Brunner named Gordon Robertson as vice president, group creative director. Robertson was most recently executive creative director/senior vice president at MARC USA for accounts such as Rite Aid, PA Lottery, Moen, Bryant Heating & Cooling and Mohawk. - Almond Net
Michael Benedek was named president for Almond Net's online data division. - Simulmedia
John Piccone joined Simulmedia as vice president, sales. Piccone joins Simulmedia from Healthination where he served as senior vice president business development and sales strategy. - Arnold Worldwide
Eric Robertson was named senior vice president, global corporate communications director at Arnold Worldwide. - Centro
Beau LeMire and Jenny Nargi were named west coast account executives at Centro.
