Tuesday, June 15, 2010
- TBWA/Canada
TBWA/Canada announced that Jack Neary is returning to agency as chief creative officer on September 1. After leading BBDO Canada as chief creative officer for 10 years, Neary was recruited to New York two and a half years ago where he led all creative work for BBDO's P&G brands. - Initiative
Initiative hired Chris Jones as vice president, director, communications. Jones joins Initiative from Univision, where he was a corporate communications consultant. - agencytwofifteen
agencytwofifteen hired Mike Parsons as managing director. Parsons was previously managing director of Tribal DDB UK where he was responsible for all the digital agencies within DDB UK. - DDB Chicago
DDB Chicago hired Linda Waste as senior vice president, director of talent management. Most recently, she was senior vice president, director of talent and human resources at Energy BBDO. - Wahlstrom
Wahlstrom hired Mark Fink as vice president, managing director. Fink was most recently vice president, business development for Bayard Advertising. - ChaCha
ChaCha hired Michael Klein as director of sales, along with Tiffany Ashland and Kevin Blaine as senior account executives. - Hallmark Channels
Joan Gundlach has been appointed to executive vice president, distribution, for Hallmark Channels. Gundlach spent 18 years at A&E Television Networks, most recently as senior vice president, distribution. - Iris New York
Iris New York hired Zeb Dropkin as social media strategist, Joel Nagy as technical director and Kaza Razat as group creative head for various projects. - RedLever
RedLever hired Shane McGrath as vice president & senior brand strategist. McGrath most recently served as vice president of sales, marketing and business development for Full Circle Entertainment. - Canoe Ventures
Canoe Ventures hired Michael Burgi as vice president of communications. Most recently, Burgi was editor-in-chief of Mediaweek. - WONGDOODY
WONGDOODY promoted Knox Duncan to managing director. Duncan has been with the agency for four years leading the connection planning group, working on clients including Alaska Airlines, Quiznos and T-Mobile. - Superfad
Nando Costa has joined Superfad as creative director. - Big Spaceship
Big Spaceship hired Jarrod Riddle as senior art director; Jeremy Morrill as art director; and Joshua Teixeira as senior strategist. - The Harlem Globetrotters
The Harlem Globetrotters hired Brian Cleek as vice president of partnership marketing and sales. - Sherpa Pictures
Don Turley, formerly of R&R Partners, launched Sherpa Pictures. - OLSONdenali
Margaret Murphy, the president of Denali Marketing, has been named president of OLSON's new specialty discipline, OLSONdenali. - OLSON
OLSON president Kevin DiLorenzo has added CEO to his title. - Autobytel
Jim Helberg has been named executive vice president, product, marketing and analytics at Autobytel. Prior to joining Autobytel, Helberg served as executive vice president at PHD, where he was charged with the strategic development and execution of all Chrysler Group media operations. - Digital Operative
Digital Operative hired Thiago Brandao as project manager. - Razorfish
Razorfish hired Ryan Turner as director of social influence marketing in the agency's West region. Turner joins Razorfish from ZAAZ, where he ran the company's social media practice. - Team One
Jason Stinsmuehlen joined Team One as group creative director. Most recently, Stinsmuehlen was group creative director at Mullen, where he worked on Orbitz, Stanley Tools and Nextel. - Firstborn
Jason Rosenfelt joined Firstborn as director of client engagement. Most recently, he was at Zugara, where he was tapped to help launch a New York operation as director of client partnerships. - Media Storm
Media Storm appointed Carly Miller as associate director, interactive. Most recently, Miller worked at Starcom Worldwide as an associate media director. - T3
T3 promoted Jay Suhr to senior vice president, chief creative officer and Glen Sheehan to senior vice president, executive creative director.
