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Thứ Năm, 12 tháng 4, 2012

US job moves: Twitter, Yahoo, Campbell Soup, Target

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Posted 06 April 2012 17:56pm by Heather Taylor with 0 comments

Once again we've put together the most senior and influential job moves in the US.

This time we cover influential moves from PayPal to Yahoo and Google to Twitter, a new president at Campbell Soup, new hires at Comcast and a new chief marketing officer at Target.

Campbell Soup Company has promoted Irene Chang Britt to President of Pepperidge Farm after serving as Campbell's Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer. Before her time at Campbell Soup, Britt was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Salted Snacks division at Kraft Foods. 

Cloud9 appointed Tania Goldszmidt as Chief Customer Officer. Previously, Goldszmidt was with Cisco Systems, where she worked on the company’s commerce and cloud solutions.

Comcast Corporation has a new Chief Communications Officer. D’Arcy F. Rudnay, Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications for Comcast, will now hold both roles.

Ellen Breslau has joined Grandparents.com as Senior Vice President and Editor-in-Chief after her role at Woman's Day as Executive Editor. 

Lifecrowd hired Jacquie Phillips as co-founder and Head of Product. She joins them from Google where she served as product manager for Google Offers and lead product manager on Boutiques.com.

MWW Group has brought on René Spellman as its VP for youth marketing and entertainment. Prior to her role at MWW, Spellman advised on youth and federal engagement and strategic communications for the White House Council for Community Solutions.

Digital media company, Outcast, brought on board Stephanie Dolgins as Chief Marketing Officer. Before joining Outcast, Stephanie was the Head of Marketing for Jetsetter and a Senior Vice Present at AOL, where she oversaw Women's and Lifestyle Programming.

Plantronics has hired Marilyn Mersereau as Chief Marketing Officer. Before joining Plantronics, Mersereau had been Cisco Systems's Senior Vice President of Corporate Marketing. 

Renesys Corporation appointed former CMO of Golfsmith, Michael Miller, as Chief Marketing Officer. Miller comes to them after his last role at Global Crossing as Vice President.

RotoMetrics has appointed Robert Spiller as its new president and chief executive officer after leaving his role as president and CEO of SCT International, a high-growth provider of security and anti-counterfeiting technology for commercial and government customers.

US drama firm RHI Entertainment has rebranded as Sonar Entertainment as a move to separate from founder Robert Halmi Sr. RHI Entertainment’s co-chief executive Stewart Till has been named CEO of Sonar in his stead.

Target hires Jeffrey Jones II as its new Chief Marketing Officer six months after Michael Francis left to become the president of J.C. Penny. Jones joins Target from the advertising agency McKinney, where he was partner and president. Previously, Jones also worked for Coca-Cola, Gap, MarchFirst, and Leo Burnett Worldwide.

Twitter welcomes Google's Director of Global Communications and Public Affairs Gabriel Stricker as its new VP of Communications

The Warnaco Group has nabbed Karyn Hillman from her role as Senior Vice President at Gap to become its Chief Merchandising Officer for Calvin Klein Jeans and Calvin Klein Jeans Accessories.

Worth New York, a division of The Worth Collection, hired Wendy Selig-Prieb as President. Selig-Prieb is the former CEO of the Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club.

Amanda Pires has left PayPal for Yahoo to join her former CEO, Scott Thompson, on April 16 as a replacement for current Senior Vice President of Communications Eric Brown, who is leaving the company.


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Thứ Tư, 11 tháng 4, 2012

UK job moves: Carat, GroupM, Last.fm, Yahoo

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Posted 05 April 2012 10:40am by Vikki Chowney with 0 comments

Once again we compile the most senior, surprising and influential job moves in the UK.

This time we cover fresh blood at Carat, a new division for GroupM, a huge hire for Last.fm and sad news at Yahoo.

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Carat has appointed Mark Brennan to head of mobile from his role as emerging platforms director at MEC.

GroupM has made Chris Copeland, formerly head of GroupM Search, chief executive of new innovation unit GroupM Next. Cary Tilds, currently leader of digital media operations at GroupM-owned Mindshare North America, takes up the post of chief innovation officer.

Hearst Magazines UK has made former ad operations manager for Hachette Filipacchi Richard Swan its head of advertising operations for digital. 

Last.fm has appointed Chris Price as its new head of music, to be based in Last.fm’s East London HQ and reporting into Tom Lisack, VP of content & artist relations for CBS Interactive Music Group. Chris joins from his role as the director of music programming for MTV’s nine UK music channels. Prior to that, Chris spent six years developing music strategy for BBC Radio 1, after five years in marketing and distribution roles for Sony Music Entertainment and the Warner Music Group.

Mindshare has promoted James Chandler from mobile account director, to the new position of head of mobile (a role left vacant by Claire Valoti before her move to MD of O2 Media).

PHD has brought over Steve Williams, group chief executive at Omnicon sister agency OMD Group, to become its president in New York.

Rightster has strengthened its management team, appointing Chris Townsley, formerly of Limelight Networks, as VP sales EMEA, Julian Humphryes, formerly of Endemol and RedLever as content solutions director and Channel 4’s Simon Voysey as media sales director.

Smartclip has brought in Andrew Ferrer as agency group head in the UK. Having previously worked for Channel 4, at smartclip Andrew will be responsible for sales and service activities facing the company's expanding client roster, working across UM Media Planning Group, Initiative and smartclip’s Northern agencies.

Twitter is bringing on 17 new staffers in Dublin, Ireland, underscoring its larger aims to build ad revenues in Europe, following the hire of Google exec Stephen McIntyre in late February to lead sales out of the Dublin office and YouTube’s Bruce Daisley in January.

Yahoo announced this week that alongside ‘profound’ structural and organisational changes, it has laid off 2,000 employees – 14% of its workforce – saving $375m in costs. It has been conducting a search for a new worldwide sales head, who will also be boss of the US, Asia and Europe, Middle East and Africa sales regions. Rich Riley, who was recently running EMEA, is said to be moving to US sales, Rose Tsou is expected to remain in Asia and the company is looking for an EMEA sales lead.

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Vikki is News Editor for Econsultancy. You can follow her on Twitter or Google+.


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