FORGE Worldwide added Francesca Sorrentino as an account manager. Prior to joining FORGE, Sorrentino was a marketing associate at Digitas in Boston.

Bryan Duffy was named executive vice president of sales and marketing for MKTG INC and Lindsay Rowe was named director, sales and marketing.

Compass Labs promoted Kevin Weafer to vice president national sales director.

The Mill hired Stephen Venning as executive producer/new business; Tim Davies as VFX supervisor/lead flame artist; and LaRue Anderson as producer, telecine.

Laurence Klinger, chief creative officer of Lapiz, a Hispanic advertising agency operating within the Leo Burnett Group, was named HispanicAd.com’s creative director of the Year at the annual AHAA advertising conference.

Initiative hired Ted Ellet as senior vice president, group business director. Ellet was most recently senior vice president, group media director at DraftFCB.

Nelson Schmidt hired Corey Wernlund as direct marketing manager and Evan Berns as an assistant account executive.

Comcast Ventures named Tina Warner as head of communications based in the firm’s San Francisco office.

R/GA hired Mark Ferdman as a group account director for the L'Oréal account.

Eleven Inc. hired Anastacia Maggioncalda as executive producer.

MEC named Marla Kaplowitz as CEO for MEC North America. She replaces Lee Doyle who recently stepped down.

BFG Communications hired Matt Nadler as creative director.

Stephanie Sladkus was elevated to publisher of People StyleWatch, up from associate publisher.

Wieden+Kennedy made two new hires at the Portland office: Pierre Wendling as director of interactive production and Matt O’Rourke as interactive creative director.

Underdog Media hired Jeff Hirsch as chief executive officer. Hirsch was most recently president of AudienceScience.

GLO Gaming hired Brian Insdorf and Lee Weinstein as US sales directors, and Samantha Jacob as international sales director.

Evolution Bureau named James Gassel as president.