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CaliforniaOmnicom Group's Grizzard Agency has tapped Madlen Satamian to head the shop's newly launched Integrated Media Group. Satamian, a media director with the direct-marketing fundraising shop since 2001, will oversee an 11-person Los Angeles-based team.district of ColumbiaSummit Marketing in Washington has elevated Cari Barnett to the newly created position of director of strategic planning and development. She joined the shop in 1998 as marketing manager and was promoted to director of marketing in 2001. GeorgiaSuzanne Glynn-Blankenship has been appointed director of account services at Hauser Group. She arrives at the Atlanta shop from the Coca-Cola Co., where she was senior brand manager of Coca-Cola Classic, North America. Rocky French has come aboard as associate creative director. French spent six years in various creative and copywriting positions at Henderson Advertising in Greenville, S.C. Mark Wheeler has been named group director of public relations. Wheeler was marketing communications director at Best Manufacturing.illinoisJamila Carrington Smith has joined Chicago's Burrell Communications as an account director on the Procter & Gamble account. She previously worked at Integrated Marketing Services as director, consumer marketing. Sayetta Redmond-Reid has been hired as a senior account executive on the Verizon account. She previously worked at Court TV as an account executive. Angelique Smith has been hired as an assistant account executive on the Verizon account. She previously worked at Euro RSCG Impact as an account executive. Also, Bryan Mattox has been promoted to vice president of youth marketing. He previously served as the account director on the Bacardi and Toyota accounts.MainePortland-based independent agency Via said it has engaged Robert Gould as a strategist. Gould will report to CEO John Coleman and focus primarily on business development and marketing communications. Gould has worked at several Boston-based agencies, including Cone, Clarke & Co. and Lehman Millet. In addition, Gould developed international expertise working as an associate board director for Munro & Forster, a London-based consultancy, where he was responsible for clients such as Hugo Boss, Warner Lambert and Bang & Olufsen.MarylandOwings Mills-based MGH has named Cara Cameron interactive services director. Along with providing project management and strategy, she will be actively involved in interactive business development. Prior to joining MGH, Cameron was an account supervisor at Weber Shandwick.massachusettsBoston agency Modernista! said it has named Darren Foot management supervisor. Foot will mainly work on the agency's General Motors' Hummer account. Foot spent seven years in a similar post at IPG's The Martin Agency in Richmond, Va. Modernista! has also hired Kapil Kachru as a copywriter. Kachru spent the past three years freelancing at advertising, design and production companies in Boston, New York and Munich, Germany.New JerseyChris Apostle has joined Sigma Group, a full-service advertising agency in Oradell, as director of strategic planning. Apostle is responsible for expanding the agency through new client development, strategic alliance formation and account direction. Apostle was president of branded entertainment firm Gold Group. Prior to that, he was president and chief executive of integrated marketing communications agency FusionPoint.New York Buck & Pulleyn in Rochester has appointed Chris Murtaugh supervisor of interactive services. Murtaugh joins B&P from LogicalSolutions.net, where he was a senior project manager on Web-based initiatives, providing strategic direction on projects for clients such as Bausch & Lomb and CooperVision. Eric Mower and Associates in Syracuse has added three employees. Laurel S. Case has become a senior account executive in the public relations and public affairs group, responsible for efforts on the Honeywell and Lenox accounts. Case previously served as a media relations manager at the Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo. Lauren P. DeBartelo has been named an account executive. She previously worked at EMA's Buffalo office as an assistant account executive. Danielle J. Gerhart has also joined EMA as a proofreader. Michael Gratz has become research director at AARP Publications. Gratz worked at Condé Nast's Wired magazine, where he was marketing and research director.TennesseeThe Buntin Group has installed Mike Brooks as art director. Brooks joins the Nashville agency from WongDoody in Seattle. Chad Corley has been named group account director of public relations. Corley was an account supervisor at Weber Shandwick in Atlanta. Tina Devore has joined as a print production manager. Devore most recently was a production coordinator at Progency Marketing Innovations. Kim Ogle and Jake Swartz have been added as senior account executive and copywriter, respectively. Ogle was an account executive at Walker & Associates in Memphis. Before his hire, Swartz worked as a freelance copywriter. In addition, Amanda Parmenter and Jaclyn Kerr have been hired as account executives.TexasRich Garza has been named event guru at Mercury Mambo in Austin. He will oversee the Mambo Events business that was launched earlier this year. He previously served as director of business development at Cornerstone Promotion in New York. While there, he worked with clients including MTV, Miller Brewing and AOL.KMA Direct Communications has installed Michael Johnson as senior vice president and chief marketing officer. Johnson will be responsible for agency branding, marketing direction and new business development at the Plano shop. He held a similar role at Euro RSCG and was vice president and management supervisor at Grey Advertising, vice president and account supervisor at Bloom Advertising and account executive at Saatchi & Saatchi.Springbox has hired Travis Higdon as a developer. In his new role at the Austin agency, Higdon will develop Web sites and interactive products. He most recently was a developer at local T3, where he worked on accounts such as Dell, JCPenney, Quark and John Deere.

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