Tuesday, August 3, 2010
- Euro RSCG Chicago
Tricia Clark, formerly of 3 Lark Consulting, has joined Euro RSCG Chicago as group account director. - Mindshare North America
Doron Wesly has been named leader of business science and planning for Mindshare North America, a new position. Prior to joining Mindshare, Wesly was global media director for Cheil Worldwide, Samsung's in-house ad agency, based in Seoul, South Korea. - AKQA
AKQA hired Julie Edwards as client services director in New York. She previously worked at Digitas as vice president and group director. - Saatchi & Saatchi
Saatchi & Saatchi hired Mark Sherwood as a senior vice president, group planning director. Sherwood was most recently global head of communication planning at Lowe Worldwide. - Creature
Creature named Dave Mckeague director of digital strategy; Mark Jahnke director of production; and Pam Fujimoto associate creative director/art director. - Mullen
Mullen has created a dedicated mobile practice to align mobile media specialists with the agency's creative group. The practice will be led by Brenna Hanly, who takes on the newly created role of mobile catalyst at Mullen. - HUGE
HUGE promoted Joe Stewart from creative director to executive creative director. In addition, Claudia Chow was elevated to creative director, up from associate creative director. - Runner's World
John Atwood was named deputy editor of Runner's World. Atwood joins Runner's World from Rodale Books, where he served as executive editor. - Geomentum
Lisa Bradner was named president of Geomentum. She was previously vice president/principal analyst at Forrester Research. - Hallmark Channels
Donovan Batiste has been promoted to vice president, research & media planning for Hallmark Channels. - Pereira & O'Dell
Pereira & O'Dell has hired Nick Chapman as director of strategy. He joins the agency from Venables Bell and Partners where he was director of brand strategy for all Con Agra brands, VIZIO and HBO. - TBWA/Chiat/Day New York
TBWA/Chiat/Day New York hired Sue Anderson and Lisa Topol as creative directors. Anderson will have primary responsibility for ABSOLUT, and Topol will lead Kahlúa and Twix. - AKQA
Matt Bennett and Will Battersby have joined AKQA as a creative team. Previously, they both worked together at 20:20, where they created digital campaigns for clients including Virgin 1 and the COI. - Journal Register Company
Ryan Adams was named corporate director of national digital sales at Journal Register Company. - Deutsch LA
Deutsch LA hired Paul Pedrazzi as its new senior vice president, director of digital strategy. Pedrazzi joins Deutsch LA from Oracle Corporation where he was vice president, product strategy. - Publicis Modem West
Drew Meyers was appointed managing director of Publicis Modem West in San Francisco, elevated from his current position as senior vice president, digital group account director at Publicis Seattle. - Mediabrands
Mediabrands named Jimmy Poon as CEO of Mediabrands Ventures in China. - TAXI
Stefan Wegner and Nathan Monleith were promoted to co-creative directors and will oversee the Canadian Tire brand at TAXI. In addition, Jason McCann moves from executive creative director, digital to co- executive creative director of TAXI Toronto.
