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- NEW YORK Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos has hired Ruth Ayres as executive vice president and chief marketing officer. She will lead new-business development at the Boston shop, a unit of the Interpublic Group of Cos. Ayres currently helms global business development at TBWA\Chiat\Day in New York as worldwide marketing director. She has also held senior posts at N.W. Ayer & Partners and DDB Needham. At Hill, Holliday, she replaces Brian Carty, who departed two weeks ago to become chief executive of Wheelhouse Corp., an Internet startup in Burlington, Mass. Pat Cunningham has joined Gotham, New York, as executive vice president/group account director. She will be responsible for the Fidelity Powerstreet business. She was formerly an associate marketing director at Fortune magazine. Jim Roxbury has been promoted to partner, director of client services from director of client services at Earle Palmer Brown, New York, a division of epb communications. He is respon-sible for the Novartis Animal Health account worldwide. Nancy J. Friedman Public Relations, New York, has appointed Meryl Pearlstein as vice president. Pearlstein was most recently group director at KWE Associates in New York, where she developed and implemented strategic public relations for clients such as Hyatt Resorts, The Equinox Resort, La Casa Que Canta and the Finnish Tourist Board. Matthew Karl has joined Nickelodeon magazine, New York, as production manager. He previously served as assistant production manager for Adweek magazine. Drew Fawcatt has been promoted to associate creative director and vice president from senior writer/vice president at Rabasca + Company, Melville. Also at the company, Janet Winckler was promoted to vice president/print production. Elisa Feinman was appointed vice president, creative director at New York agency DNA Creative. She was formerly vice president, creative services at USA Networks. Adweek has hired Allen Tombello as an art director in its promotion department. He previously taught sculpture classes, and has worked as a museum preparator and film-company art director. Also in Adweek's promotion department, Elizabeth Tzitzis has been promoted to art director from designer. Ryan Communications, Syracuse, has named Julie Nicholson Abate as media assistant. She recently graduated from Syracuse University. Jennifer Munley has been named executive producer at Division Six, New York, the commercial production division of National Video Center, based in New York. She will be responsible for all aspects of production for the company's commercials and promotions now in production. Prior to joining Division Six, Munley worked as a freelance producer. CarroSELL, based in New York, hired Jeff Voight as Texas sales manager. He was previously a major account specialist for Waste Management, Houston. Katherine Bordelon and Bruce J. Testa also joined the company as account executives. Bordelon was at Obie Media in Dallas, where she was an account executive. Testa had been an assistant media planner at Ogilvy & Mather, New York. Bob Davidowitz has been promoted to publisher of Primedia Consumer Magazines' American Baby Group from group associate publisher. Norma Blatto has been promoted to vice president of marketing and brand development from group marketing director of Primedia's American Baby Group. MRA, Syracuse, a division of the MRA Group, has named Diane Niznik as senior designer in its design department. She had been the owner and creative director of Diane Niznik Design. Also at the agency, Victor Ianno Jr. has become an account executive in the account services department. He previously was sales and marketing manager for Lakeside Printing, Skaneateles. Jack M. Maged has been appointed chief operating officer of Fairbrother and Company, Chatham. Previously, he was vice president and director of operations at Gale Group, New York. - CONNECTICUT Jim Hood has been named group chief executive officer of Westport-based The Greenfield Companies, a group of consumer insight-based marketing services firms that work with companies ranging from Fortune 500 organizations to dot-com startups. - NEW JERSEY Carie Lund has joined Gianettino & Meredith in Short Hills as an account coordinator. She was previously an assistant account executive at Cromarty & Com-pany, New York. Patrick Fanelli has been appointed creative director of Patricia Morris Associates in Clark. He formerly was senior vice president/group creative director at Ammirati & Puris/Lintas, New York. - PENNSYLVANIA Flavia Barba has been hired by The Hal Lewis Group, Philadelphia, as account executive. She was formerly an assistant account executive at FCB Health Care, New York. Rachel Fox joined as an account executive. She had been an account executive at Roska Direct Marketing, Montgomeryville. The agency has also named James Griffith as senior art director. He was previously an art director at 30 West Advertising in St. Davids. Claire Koczak has been promoted to account executive from assistant account executive. Also at the agency, Sandy Mansfield joined as estimator. She had been a financial manager at Pen-Del Realty Corp. in Bala Cynwyd.

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