Adam Brock joins Bread n Butter as their Group Creative Director during an exciting time of company growth. His curiosity, kindness, and sharp perspective on creative potential accelerates BnB’s pursuit of partnerships grounded in the cornerstone of good business—trust. Adam brings a wealth of experience with him, from leading award-winning creative work at some of the world’s most notable agencies like Wunderman Thompson, DDB and Possible.

Co-founder Kelly Dotseth has been appointed CEO of Brandzooka, a self-service programmatic platform that was created to democratize the digital advertising landscape for brands and agencies.
Dotseth will focus on the company’s overarching strategy, manage investor relationships and institutional financing, and oversee its marketing, media, sales, product and partnerships teams.
The company recently closed $5.6 million in Series A funding. It’s total funding to date is $10.1 million.

Google's largest shopping agency, Adlucent, has promoted Laura Russell to Sr. Director of Marketing. In her 6 years at Adlucent, Laura has worked tenaciously on the strategic shift from a singular focused paid search company to a leading performance digital agency for retailers. She now leads B2B marketing including branding, communications, lead generation and product marketing. Laura is a creative problem solver and innovative marketer who loves to question the status quo and inspire action.

Tinuiti has appointed Kolin Kleveno as its first senior vice president, Addressable Audiences. Kleveno will oversee the innovation, integration and synergy for the Addressable Audience division; comprised of nearly 100 people across the programmatic display and paid social media teams. Kleveno’s goal is to evolve Tinuiti’s omni-channel, customer journey-led planning and activation approach that enables personalization at scale and promotes a deeper understanding of who is converting and why.

Captiv8 launches European expansion and welcomes two new key hires: Saeyoung Cho, Head of Strategic Partnerships and Stephanie Hoppe, Head of European Operations. Saeyoung, formerly the Director of Digital Experiences at Horizon Media, will focus on strengthening industry partnerships and leading customer growth. Stephanie, based in London, joins the team after leading Business Development at Relatable. Stephanie will lead the EMEA expansion effort and champion Captiv8 and its offerings amongst the new territory. As influencer marketing matures and the emphasis remains on measurement and repeatable performance and success, Stephanie and Saeyoung will be instrumental in Captiv8 market expansion. For more information, visit Captiv8.io 

Independent, proof-centric media agency Mediassociates has hired Jim Santa Barbara as head of analytics. The former Nielsen executive has led development of new data strategies to sharpen the marketing mix, speed up analysis, and enable modeling for prospective and under-resourced markets across a diverse client base including PepsiCo, P&G, and J&J. Santa Barbara’s charge at the fast-rising agency: Answer marketers’ unmet call for actionable media attribution across the full marketing funnel.

Directors JB Carlin and Jeremy Merrifield join international production company Great Guns.
Known for his intimate and raw style, JB Carlin has the unique ability to quickly develop relationships with talent, expertly capturing beautiful human moments. He has worked with an enviable list of actors including Morgan Freeman, Regina King, and Alfred Molina and written numerous TV series and feature films.
An award-winning performance-driven director, writer, and producer, Jeremy Merrifield began making films after more than a decade working in NY’s broadway theatre community and advertising industry. Most recently, his debut short ‘Balloon’ won a multitude of prestigious awards, including Special Jury Prize at the YDAs and two Student Emmys.

Index Exchange has hired Jessica Breslav and Lori Goode as its first-ever Chief Customer Officer and Chief Marketing Officer, respectively. Breslav joins from Criteo, while Goode comes from Amazon Advertising. The roles are reflective of Index’s commitment to strengthening its leadership team as it explores new frontiers in the omnichannel space and builds for a cookieless future. Index is also promoting Will Doherty to Chief of Marketplace Development, further bolstering the company’s C-Suite.

Jason Majewski is a newly minted creative director-wordsmith-strategist who has been at Cornett for nearly a decade. Formerly ACD, he has done noteworthy work for clients Tempur Sealy International, Procter & Gamble, Valvoline, A&W Restaurants, the University of Kentucky, UK Athletics, and UK HealthCare. Majewski is on Cornett’s Vision team and co-hosts Lexington’s chapter of CreativeMornings. He reports to ECDs Whit Hiler and Tim Jones.

Creative marketing agency Cornett has promoted Kathy Martinolich to senior copywriter. She will report to ECDs Whit Hiler and Tim Jones. In her two and a half years at the agency as copywriter, she’s worked for clients including Tempur + Sealy, the University of Kentucky, UK HealthCare, VisitLEX, Sazerac, Lane’s End Farm, and Keeneland. Martinolich’s projects have won national awards, and she has been recognized in top industry publications.

Peppercomm, a leading strategic communications and marketing agency has hired Stephen Corsi as Chief Digital Officer and Senior Partner. Building upon the agency’s already deep bench, Stephen’s primary role will be leading and growing the firm’s digital marketing communications services, including social media marketing and paid search, SEO, web design and development, and video and creative services. To learn more visit Peppercomm.com or follow us @Peppercomm.

Night Market, Horizon Media’s eCommerce data intelligence company, has hired Kimberly Chulis as VP of Data Science. Night Market gives brands unprecedented control of the consumer e-purchase journey within the walled gardens of Amazon, Google and Facebook. Chulis will be creating an eCommerce infrastructure built upon Horizon Media’s own customer data platform, blu., using machine learning to guide retail offers, pricing, merchandising, forecasting, reviews, and behavioral audience segments.

Modern marketing firm Known welcomed Beth Superfin as SVP, Client Experience and John Davis as SVP, Operations. They are among more than a dozen new hires across Known’s media buying, data science, brand strategy and creative functions, in response to the firm’s significant growth.

Superfin will oversee client engagements while driving innovation across the agency’s integrated offerings. Davis will work to elevate and scale the agency’s rapidly expanding portfolio of unified capabilities.

Superfin previously worked across the TimeWarner and WarnerMedia families, holding positions at Turner and AOL. Davis possesses over two decades of agency-side experience, joining Known after a 14-year tenure at OMD and Omnicom Media Group.

Recognized as one of the top design leaders in the country, Cameron leads day-to-day operations across both offices of The Shipyard marketing engineer agency (Columbus, OH & Newport Beach, CA). As President, he is responsible for bringing strong structural & growth practices to expanding client services. Cameron’s experience in driving collaboration & integration across data and creative teams is driving immense value for client partners, transforming their models and ways of working.

Planet Propaganda has hired industry veteran Teddy Brown as Group Creative Director. He spent the last 16 years at FCB Global, most recently as an EVP/Executive Creative Director, leading the creative vision for over 15 brands—including Coca-Cola, Bud Light, GE Appliances, HP, Goodyear and Comcast. In his new role, Teddy will focus on building effective integrated campaigns for Planet’s full roster of clients, including Jersey Mike’s Subs, Duluth Trading Company, Ale Asylum and Big Lots.