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New Hires: Two Weeks in One Post

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Feb 20, 2012 
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Brian LaRue  |
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New Hires: Two Weeks in One Post

ADOTAS – It’s been a busy couple weeks in the Adotas offices (and roughly around them, and across town, and pretty much anywhere else we’ve been), and now that we can take advantage of a quiet Presidents’ Day to write about… well, a group of executives, which is more timely than we’d even intended. It’s been two weeks since we’ve given you a list of which movers and shakers are moving and shaking, so with that, here’s the latest update of who’s been hired by whom around the industry. And by the looks of it, things have been busy in a lot of other places, too.

Did we miss anyone? Let us know.

• Advertising technology/search engine marketing optimization company Adchemy announced two high-level hires: Judy Madden was named vice president of human resources, while Alexander Castro was tapped as vice president of product strategy and management. Madden had previously held the same position at Grass Valley U.S.A., and Castro had been vice president and general manager for Limelight Networks.

• Audience targeting firm/digital marketing hub company [x+1] also announced a pair of hirings: Bill Sears is now vice president of solution architecture, and Tom Zawacki has been named [x+1]‘s first vice president, western region. Sears had been vice president of technology at SymphonyIRI Group, and Zawacki had previously co-founded Lemonade Inc.

• Hanz Kurdi is now the senior director of publisher strategy and operations with social video ad platform/distribution network Sharethrough. Beforehand, he’d been vice president of business development at Apture.

• Former executive creative director Dave Damman was promoted to the role of chief creative officer of ad agency Carmichael Lynch.

• Self-styled “social graph” 33Across announced three high-level hires: Courtney Kurland was named Midwest sales director, Todd Rankin was named as Detroit sales director, and Maurice Moore is now vice president of sales for CPG and retail. Kurland comes to 33Across from Bradford Media Group, where she was the director of advertising sales and partnerships, while Rankin had been senior vice president and Midwest sales director at Gas Station TV/Destination Media.

• Craig Byers joined interactive marketing agency HZDG as its vice president and creative director. He had previously been Landor’s creative director, and he brought with him to the new gig two former members of his Landor team, design director Roberta Wright and senior designer Tim Radville.

• Sales and marketing messaging consulting firm Corporate Visions named Lisa Cummings vice president of products. Cummings had previously been the founder and principal of Leader’s Lens.

• Unruly Media opened new offices in Chicago and Berlin, tapping Tim Bierman (now named Midwest sales director) and Olaf Kroll (named managing director, Germany) to lead those offices. Bierman came from a key position at Microsoft Advertising, and Kroll had previously been Fox Interactive/MySpace’s vice president of business development and mobile.

• Manny Akenal is now COO of gaming “rewards network” Kiip. Earlier, he’d been Zynga’s global director of brand advertising.

• Col. Barry S. Baer has been appointed CFO of mobile barcode management solutions company NeoMedia Technologies.

• Precision marketing platform provider Adara Media announced three high-level staffing changes: Scott Garner was promoted to executive vice president of business strategy, Julie Kimball Keating was named director of sales for the Northeast and Canada, and Heather Goeld was named director of sales for the Midwest. Garner had been Adara’s senior vice president — the EVP post is a new one for the company. Kimball Keating had previously held the same position at the Travel Ad Network at Adara hired her for, and Goeld comes from Frommer’s Budget Travel.

• Andrew Q. Kraft joined real-time ad technology company AppNexus as its vice president of business development. This is a newly-created role. He’d previously been senior vice President for AMP Publisher Solutions at Collective.

• Fraud detection and prevention services provider 41st Parameter announced two executive hires: Karen Dayan is now vice president of corporate marketing, and James Lamberti is now general manager for 41st Parameter’s privacy-minded device fingerprinting AdTruth division. Dayan had previously been vice president of marketing with Criteo, and Lamberti had been InMobi’s vice president of research and marketing.

• Paul Lentz has been named senior vice president of publisher platform at internet sharing platform ShareThis. He’d previously led business development and strategy for CBSNews.com and CNET.

• And a board appointment: Social media management provider Syncapse named Lovell Group chairman Patrick W. Gross to its board of directors.





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