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NEW YORKEvy Nabers, director of fusion marketing at BrandBuzz in New York, was promoted to director of business development, succeeding Rick Eiserman, who was promoted to chief operating officer.Ziccardi Partners Frierson Mee promoted Joe Fontana to general manager/ partner. He previously was executive vice president, director of creative services at the New York-based agency. Fontana was one of the founding partners of Ziccardi & Partners, which merged with Frierson Mee + Partners late last year to form ZPFM.Jerry Della Femina, chairman and chief executive officer of Della Femina, Roths child, Jeary and Partners, was elected a member of the board at Lighthouse International. New York-based Lighthouse is a worldwide resource on vision impairment and vision rehabilitation.Mel Sokotch was promoted to exec utive vice president/director of Consumer Healthcare at Foote, Cone & Belding New York; he formerly was executive vice president/worldwide account director on Nabisco for Oreo, Chips Ahoy!, Life Savers and Planters.Carl Dickens was promoted to senior vice president for the Media Group at CMR, overseeing all sales and service efforts aimed at media sellers, including broadcasters and publishers. He is based in New York. Dickens formerly was vice president, Western division sales for CMR's Broadcast Group. CMR is a Taylor Nelson Sofres company.Dennis Publishing in New York hired Barry Pincus as manager of brand development. He most recently worked at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, where he served as a consultant on various projects for the TV, Internet and direct-commerce divisions.Marc Juris was named president of MuchMusic USA. He is based in New York. Juris most recently served as executive vice president and general manager for American Movie Classics. In his new role, he takes over from Nora Ryan, who served as the interim general manager of MuchMusic USA. Ryan has now returned to her position as senior vice president of business development for Rainbow Media Holdings, which manages MuchMusic USA and AMC, among others. Rainbow Media Holdings, based in Jericho, is a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp.Bigfoot Interactive hired Sophia Corona as chief financial officer. Prior to joining the New York-based company, she worked as chief financial officer at Visual Radio.Frank Dolcimascolo was named director of research at USA Weekend magazine in New York. He most recently worked at Forbes Inc. as director of research, responsible for the strategic development and analysis of market research for all Forbes publications. USA Weekend is a subsidiary of Gannett Co.West Glen Communications appointed Anthony Pagano director of new-business development. Before joining the New York-based company, he worked in managerial positions with two New York-area public relations companies.Anne Wright joined Cohn & Wolfe's New York Corporate/Technology Practice as executive vice president and managing director. She most recently served as corporate practice director at Hill and Knowlton. NEW JERSEYBruce Epstein was hired in the newly created position of president of Noesis Healthcare Interactions, CommonHealth's healthcare-marketing and advertising agency located in Mor ristown. The post is effective immediately. Epstein, who co-founded Noesis in August 2000, was previously executive vice president, management supervisor.GráficaGroup in Chester named Neal Wilson director of sales for GráficaGroup's three companies: GráficaAdvertising, GráficaInter.active Ltd. and Gráfica.eCRM Corp. He most recently was vice president/corporate alliances for Sesame Workshop. In addition, Jim Hathaway was promoted to vice president of business development at GráficaGroup. He previously was director of business development.DVC Worldwide promoted five staffers. Kelly Fisher rose to manager, Web developer; she formerly served as a Web developer at the Morristown-based agency. Caryn Friedman was elevated to senior vice president, management supervisor; she previously was vice president, management supervisor. John Grunstein was named vice president, management supervisor; he most recently served as a vice president, account supervisor. Yongsue Lee was promoted to project leader; he most recently was senior system engineer. Maxine Schwarzman was named a media manager; she previously worked as a media planner. PENNSYLVANIAThe Brownstein Group in Philadelphia promoted Jim Walls to senior copywriter. Walls, who works on all accounts—including Microsoft, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, First Republic Bank, Avecia and the New Jersey State Aquarium—previously served as a copywriter.

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