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12/18
As reported last week, Robert Levitan left iVillage to pursue other ventures where new investments will once again prove fruitful (hopefully!).
David Centner has moved on from K2 Design to head up the interactive division for FrenchToast.com, and no its not the food -- its the clothing manufacturer.
Dean Tomasula has left Waters Market Date Web Wire to pursue his own writing and photography interests. You can find him at: wizardjuice@mauimail.com.
Toby Rosser has joined eMedia of Stamford, Connecticut as
creative director for the Internet strategy company. He was
previously in NYC with N2K, a creative director with CGR
Productions in Connecticut and was a principle in The Graphics
Room, an Internet design consulting firm.
11/13
Morgan Carroll, one of the founding-employees of Darwin Digital is moving on to Deutsch Interactive as a copywriter guru, and will be on the Ikea account.
Alan Gutman, is three months old now at Digital Pulp. He was incubating at Brand Dialogue previously, and I must say turned out quite fine.
4/10
Tom Russ (who was the force behind @The Scene's first sponsor) has made a career move to Merrill Lynch North Tower as the catering manager through Sodexho Marriott Services Inc.
Stephanie Agresta recently joined iVillage: The Women's Network, the #1 destination for women on the Web, as an Account Manager in the Sponsorship Sales Department. She was formerly consulting with Silicon Alley companies, including Interactive Connection and Cybergrrl where she completed a marketing project for Aliza Sherman's new book, "Cybergrrl: A Woman's Guide to the World Wide Web.
Richard Giacomo, most recently the Regional Account Manager for New York and
the Mid-Atlantic at Softbank Interactive Marketing, has joined The
Electronic Newsstand, Inc. as its new Director of Marketing in their brand new sales office in Soho.
Nicholson NY has named Jennifer Friedberg, former senior partner at OgilvyOne, to the new position of Senior Vice President, Business Development and Marketing. In her role,
Friedberg will leverage her client-management and business-development
expertise to help ensure that Nicholson's strategy, design and technology
offerings are best matched to clients' needs. The appointment advances
Nicholson's strategy of fueling growth by offering unparalleled breadth and
depth of services and by expanding current client relationships.
Touchscreen Media Group has announced the
addition of three new employees to help bolster the company's industry
growth.
Laurie Granbeck joins the five and a half year-old interactive firm as a
Multimedia Producer, exiting downtown corporate rival K2 Design, NY.
Granbeck comes to Touchscreen Media Group with an extensive background
in Web site and CD-ROM production.
Bob Huggins, formerly with New Media Associates Incorporated of New
Jersey has been tapped as one of Touchscreen's newest Account
Executives. With 18-years of sales and marketing experience, Huggins
has dedicated the past six years to interactive sales.
Marty Katz has also joined as an Account Executive,
having recently left VCG Inc., a subsidiary of Grey Advertising.
Katz has extensive experience in interactive media sales and
marketing.
Christine Harmel has joined Digital Talent Agency as Director of Client
Services - New York. DTA assists Fortune 1000 clients in locating and
evaluating digital developers. Prior to DTA, Ms. Harmel served as Director
of Client Services at Los Angeles Web agency W3-Design. There she was
responsible for client acquisition, strategic planning and interactive
marketing.
3/20
Talented Tristan Louis landed at Pencom Web Works as Director of Marketing. Stay tuned for some exciting news that he's been diligently attending to. More info: www.pencom.com
3/13
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and Take Back NY's ParoleWatch had a 30th birthday bash for Niger Innis, CORE Activist and MSNBC Commentator on March 5 at Le Bar Bat.
Daniel Resnick, CTO of Darwin Digital, made the C|Net news on March 9. Promising real-time banners, he staked some desired territory out in cyberspace.
Stir co-founder and long-time Silicon Alley artist and creative director, Tery Spataro was featured in NetGuide's Women's section by Lisa Gill, editor of Cybergrrl Webstation.
Jim Orsi recently left his job as a Producer at CKS New York (formerly SiteSpecific) to become the manager of advertising technology for StarMedia Network. He will be setting up and maintaining all of StarMedia's adservers and developing new advertising and inventory management systems. Some travel to South America may be in the works as well.
3/6
Erik Endress has joined Thomson
Financial Services "Thomson Investors Network", a leading provider of quality financial information, research, analysis and software to the worldwide investment and corporate communities, as Director of Interactive Solutions. He was formerly with Thomson's Faulkner & Gray where he handled advertising sales the firm's online accounting magazine, "The Electronic Accountant".
2/27
Kenneth Crutchfield recently joined US Interactive as director of strategic planning and development. Crutchfield spent over 12 years at Lexis-Nexis and was most recently the director of electronic commerce for Dun & Bradstreet. In 1995 and '96 he was the electronic commerce director for the National Information Infrastructure Testbed (NIIT) Consortium.
Christopher Clinton has joined Montrose Capital Management, Ltd., the Wall Street investment banking and brokerage firm, as vice president, investments and director of the new media division. He was formerly with Prudential Securities where he promoted the firm's online and brokerage services.
David Corales, former marketing & public relations associate of New Jersey Online, has joined Middleberg Interactive, a division of Middleberg + Associates (www.middleberg.com, www.mediasource.com) as the online public relations coordinator.
2/20
Friday the 13th doesn't have to be jinxed all the time. At least not for Nancy Jaffe as she and Chris McCarthy celebrated her moving on to join FCB as Director of Integrated Marketing and Evangelist for Interactive at O'Flaherty's in the Times Square area. Nancy was VP, Director Strategic Planning, at THINK New Ideas, Inc. Close friends came by and toasted with a cool frothy beverage.
Drew Ianni recently left the Silicon Valley office of CKS to accept an analyst position with Jupiter Communications here in New York.
Christopher Clinton has joined Montrose Capital Management, Ltd., the Wall Street investment banking and brokerage firm, as Vice President, Investments and Director of the New Media division. He was formerly with Prudential Securities where he promoted the firm's online and brokerage services.
One of the busy recruiting firms in the Alley, Wert & Co, has launched its Web site. If you can't find anything in @NY's comprehensive listing every Tuesday for jobs (shocking!) you could amble over to http://www.wertco.com
2/6
In the wake of the merger that created the new 24/7 Media firm from Petry Interactive, Millennium
Marketing, and Interactive Imaginations, the new management team is in
place. Here's how it breaks down. CEO David J. Moore, former president and
CEO of Petry Interactive, Inc., leads the team comprised of the following
officers: Jay Friesel, executive vice president, sales and administration;
Mark Burchill, senior vice president, business development and marketing;
Gary Cecchini, senior vice president, sales; Scott Cohen, senior vice
president; Geoff Judge, senior vice president, technology and operations;
Stuart Shaw, senior vice president, finance and administration.
Kent Hawryluk has been promoted to managing director at The Jordan,
Edmiston Group, Inc., an investment banking firm. Hawryluk joined the firm
last February and help start the company's new media division which
represents clients like EarthWeb, OneSoft and Digitool Applied Technologies.
In the wake of its acquisition by Razorfish, Avalanche Solutions has hired Michael Drapkin as director of technology.
He was formerly a vice president at Lehman Brothers, New York, where he
oversaw technology application and web-site development across the firm's
retail brokerage, enterprise system engineering and information management
groups.
Martin Glenn Torres has joined Interactive8 as senior copywriter. Torres
will work on the AT&T and Mars accounts, among others.
Beginning in March, Ian McGrath will be working for N2K, Inc
Michelle Wright -- has joined the New York Sales Force at Yahoo! The #1 Internet Global Media Company. She made the cyberjump into new media advertising after a 4 year tenor at USA Networks (Cable Network).
Tristan Louis of Earthweb has decided to move on to new challenges. On
Feb. 15, after a bit over a year since joining the company from
Mecklermedia, Louis will be leaving the company. Tristan writes that his
"experience there was a rich learning experience and also made me a
stronger person."
Stir Associates is shaking up and moving to 225 East 24th Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10010. Phone number: 212.684.3575. Of course you can always reach them at www.stir.net
Kari Robart left her consulting position with Virtual Growth last week to start a new adventure with Tumble Interactive as the CFO. Tumble is an award winning new media company, founded in 1988, that creates outstanding
CD ROMs, kiosks, laptop presentations, and web sites. They are the new media agency of record for ABC and our client list includes companies like Novartis, Hearst, and New York Sports Club.
1/30
After three years of successful work as executive director of the New
York New Media Association, Lori Schwab is moving to the exciting position
of Vice President of Business Development for United Digital Artists. In
her new role, she hope's to continue her work with the community on a more
individual basis as she strives to expand UDA's talent agency, acting as a
liaison between digital artists and corporate clients. Lori's work at NYNMA
has helped establish New York as a center for this emerging industry.
Sacha Hare joined THINK New Ideas as director strategic marketing and
went straight to her first pitch! Sacha was the associate director of
Wunderman Cato Johnson's Brand Dialogue where she worked on Apple, AMEX,
Gevalia and Fisher Price among others. She has extensive experience in new
media at ICon CMT (projects for CBS, ABC, Vidal Sassoon, Altoids), The
Voyager Company (projects for Smirnoff, Citibank, New York Times, Dennys),
Davidson & Associates, and Downtown Digital. Sacha is a graduate of Boston
University and NYU's ITP Master's program.
Fernando Romeroformally of Katz Millennium Marketing has joined
Doubleclick as a senior account executive.
Eric Berlin is starting at E-Pub and will be responsible for the creation
and development of Uproar's game shows. Berlin joins Uproar from
Mecklermedia, where he was senior editor of Internet Shopper. Previously he
was a contributing editor at Internet World where he authored the monthly
columns Rec Room and Your Own Time, both of which focused on games and Net
entertainment. Throughout his career Berlin has been a regular contributor
to Games Magazine and PC Magazine. An accomplished playwright, Berlin is
also a top-rated speaker at conventions across the United States -- he has
taught the basics of the Internet to thousands of newbies, and has given
presentations on online gaming and Internet gambling.
Barry Kluger was perhaps the one man to withstand the roller coaster
evolution of the Prodigy Services Company. A former Viacom hand, Kluger
came to Prodigy with VH-1 creator Ed Bennett in 1995, when Sears and IBM
still owned the online service. Through the company's eventual sale,
Bennett's departure, myriad restructurings, and the launch of new services
in China and Africa, Kluger has survived. But this week is Kluger's last at
Prodigy. Said Kluger, the reasons he came to Prodigy just no longer
existed. Kluger's mulling various opportunities, including consulting work,
but rumors that he's considering the PGA tour are ill founded, he assures us.
1/23
Congratulations to Kora Manheimer who was promoted to Senior Producer at THINK New Ideas, Inc.
1/16
New York New Media Association co-founder Brian Horey is scaling back his activities as a partner with venture firm Lawrence, Smith and Horey to join fund management firm Tontine Partners as general partner. He'll retain portfolio responsibilities for the companies LSH bought into, and will remain an active NYNMA director and plans to act as angel investor to local startups.
Todd Watson has taken the position of program manager for Internet advertising at IBM. He was formerly a producer with IBM software electronic marketing, and editor of the IBM e-business Web site.
Robert Michaels, project manager at Weblations, the Web translation company, has moved from Barcelona to New York to be closer to the Silicon Alley market and clients including Agency.com.
Brian Martin, a veteran graphics art and creative director, has joined THINK New Ideas as created director. He was the formerly the creative head at the Microsoft Network, where he worked on music programming with artists like Phillip Glass, Herbie Hancock, B.B. King, Paula Cole and Graham Nash.
David Starr has been named to the new position of vice president, broadcast software development for AirMedia. Prior to his promotion, he served as director of development and was responsible for overseeing the development of the network operations center software for the AirMedia Live Internet Broadcast Network.
Kathleen Sheridan has joined Nicholson|NY as media director and Michael Wexler was named director of research and management for the interactive agency. Sheridan comes over from Wunderman Cato Johnson, where she worked on interactive marketing and media planning efforts for clients
including American Express, Apple Computer, AT&T, Novell, Sears, and Xerox. Wexler had been manager of marketing analysis for the Strategic Interactive Group in Boston. He was cofounder in Chapel Hill, NC of PC Doctors, a consulting company.
Sue Black and Arun Bordoloi have been named chief financial officer and senior account manager, respectively, at Razorfish. Black joins Razorfish following two years as Chief Financial Officer of TBWA Chiat/Day New York. Bordoloi joins Razorfish following three years as a manager at Deloitte
& Touche Consulting Group.
1/9
R/GA Digital Studios Inc., which includes R/Greenberg
Associates (R/GA) and R/GA Interactive (R/GA I), has promoted Frank
Gallon to the position of chief financial officer. Mr. Gallon joined
R/GA in 1995 as Director of Finance.
Mat Zucker has resigned as Marketing
Director for NYC NET (the gay and lesbian online service and ISP)
for a job as Co-Creative Director at Manhattan Marketing Ensemble, a
$25 million ad/marketing agency. He is keeping an Advisor position
on NYCNET's (www.nycnet.com) board.
