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NEW YORKAdweek made the following hires and promotion. Michelle Jeffers was named San Francisco bureau chief, effective today. She will be covering the Bay Area ad market, as well as Silicon Valley and the high-tech industry. Jeffers previously was a writer and reporter for Red Herring, Forbes.com and Business 2.0. Karen Barr was appointed online photo editor; she most recently served as a freelance photo editor and art buyer. Deanna Zammit joined as editorial assistant; she graduated from the Medill School of Journalism in December 2001, where she earned a master's degree, and interned in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel's business department during a semester in Washington. Before that, Zammit was a reporter at the MetroWest Daily News in Framingham, Mass.; she also interned at Inc. in Boston. Zammit replaces Mae Anderson, who was promoted from assistant editor to associate creative editor. Tracy Bostic was named editorial assistant in the Atlanta office; she previously served as managing editor of VNU's Auto Interiors, which ceased publication in October. Bostic, who reports to Southeast reporter Alicia Griswold, will work on the On the Move, People and Calendar sections in the Southeast region for both print and online.Peter Armour was named senior vice president of consumer marketing at Advance Magazine Group in New York. He will oversee all subscription and retail sales marketing for Condé Nast Publications, Fairchild Publications' consumer titles and Golf Digest Publications, among other duties. Armour previously worked at Condé Nast, where he was circulation director since 1982 and senior vice president since 1996.Media Logic in Albany appointed Stephanie Brown senior creative director of interactive services. She formerly was director of creative services at Dynamic Applications in Troy and director of marketing for eB2B Commerce in New York.CALIFORNIADirect marketing firm Grizzard named Brandi Shaw senior account executive in the Los Angeles office. She will report directly to vice president Mike Morris. Shaw had been a consultant with Lindberg International, a market-research company in Denmark. Grizzard is based in Atlanta.Ogilvy & Mather in Culver City added Simone DeBlasio as an account executive to manage national advertising for Mattel's small and large doll division. DeBlasio was previously at Rubin Postaer and Associates in Santa Monica, where she managed the national ad account for the Honda Civic, among other duties.COLORADOBarnhart/CMI Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations in Denver hired Ken Hunter as director of public relations. Hunter previously was vice president of public relations for Vanguard Communications.CONNECTICUTLeslie Stedman was named director of client services at Cronin & Co in Glastonbury. She had been group head, client services. Her new responsibilities include new-business development, overseeing all ad accounts as well as general department management. She reports to Kim Manning, the agency's svp, director of strategic planning.GEORGIAAustin Kelley Advertising in Atlanta made three executive promotions. Patty Kinney was named senior vice president of traffic services; she joined the agency's traffic department in 1987. Lou Ann Russell rose to senior vice president and, account director; she came to AKA from Cole Henderson Drake, where she was traffic manager. Duncan Stone was appointed senior vice president, associate creative director; he joined the agency in 1997 and has done work for the Georgia Lottery, Karastan, HUD, Mac Tools and MediaOne.ILLINOISDraftWorldwide hired Willie Wilkov as vice president, account director, leading the Ross Products direct marketing unit. He reports to Ellen Miller, the Chicago agency's senior executive vice president, executive director. His responsibilities include management of direct, e-mail and Internet marketing for Welcome Addition Club, the relationship marketing vehicle for all of the Similac baby-formula brands. Wilkov was director of employee development at Leo Burnett USA in Chicago.Leo Burnett USA's board of directors elected Susan Wayne executive vice president. Wayne, the account director on Gap, previously performed the same role on the agency's Hallmark business. She will be located at Burnett's Chicago office.MICHIGANBiggs|Gilmore Communications in Kalamazoo hired Ed Chima as executive vice president, chief strategy officer. He will focus on account planning, brand strategy, market research and consulting. Previously, Chima was senior vice president of Strategic Partners LLC, where he led marketing and strategic planning.NEBRASKAAnderson Partners in Omaha hired Bill Barna as writer/strategist. Barna was a senior copywriter and strategist for Bailey Lauerman in Lincoln.RHODE ISLANDJennifer Toone joined Trion Communications in Providence as a senior account supervisor, working on Newport Coffee Traders and SwimEx, among others. Previously, she held client-services posts at Rhode Island shops Chaffee/Partners and Berkley Advertising.TEXASLatinWorks Marketing, based in Austin, hired Sergio Cocú as senior creative director. He most recently held two posts at McCann-Erickson, serving as both vice president of McCann-Erickson Argentina and executive creative director of McCann-Erickson Latin America. Joanna Acosta joined LatinWorks as an account manager; she will work on Castrol, U.S. Cellular and Coke, among others. She previously was an account supervisor for El Pollo Loco at cruz/kravetz: Ideas in Los Angeles.UTAHBoede & Partners in Salt Lake City hired John Kinkead as senior copywriter; Kinkead was previously a freelance writer for Grey in San Francisco. Also at Boede, Gary Brown was named senior interactive art director, Kris Bartholomew arrived as production designer and Kim Reynolds was appointed interactive director. Brown, Bartholomew and Reynolds all joined from Euro RSCG DSW Partners (now Euro RSCG Tatham Partners) in Salt Lake City, where they served as interactive art director, production designer and interactive designer, respectively. Boede also promoted Kara Hallstrom from proofreader to junior copywriter.VIRGINIAFree Agents Marketing in Richmond named Ronilee A. Small account executive and head of media services. Small came to Free Agents from Pro Media in Natick, Mass., where she was associate media director.

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