Interpublic Group’s Mediabrands is building up its hyperlocal unit Geomentum by adding former Forrester analyst Lisa Bradner has its first president. She’ll head up account management and consulting, as the company expects to expand into client categories such as restaurant, retail, and banking. In addition, she’ll be working with Mediabrands…

A month after he announced his departure from his post at Publicis’ digital hub VivaKi, David Kenny, one of the key architects of the ad holding company’s interactive strategy, has decided to join content delivery manager Akamai (NSDQ: AKAM) as president. Kenny will run Akamai’s general business operations, including global…

It was exactly two years ago today that David Moore stepped aside as CEO of WPP Group interactive shop 24/7 RealMedia to take on the more general advisory role within the unit. Now, his successor, Jonathan Hsu is leaving 24/7 RealMedia after 10 years to become the head of RecycleBank,…

Newsday, the local Long Island daily owned by Cablevision (NYSE: CVC), has made some changes on the publishing side. The newspaper is promoting publisher Terry Jimenez to the role of president of Newsday Media Group and tapped sales head Fred Groser to succeed him in his current post.

Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) is giving corporate development exec Bruce Campbell some additional responsibilities as chief development officer and general counsel. At the same time, Campbell will be handing over his duties as president of Digital Media to Peter Liguori, Discovery’s COO, who will take on management of the Digital…

Josh James, the founder and former CEO of Omniture, is leaving Adobe Systems (NSDQ: ADBE) 11 months after Adobe purchased his company for $1.8 billion. James had joined Adobe as SVP of its Omniture business unit post-acquisition. He’s being succeeded in that post by Brad Rencher, a VP of business…

Jason Krikorian, co-founder of video technology company Sling Media, has joined venture capital firm DCM as a general partner. In January ‘09, Krikorian, along with his brother and Sling Media co-founder Blake, left the company less than a year after it was bought by EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS) as part of…

Summer Friday news from Condé Nast: Robert Sauerberg has been promoted to president from group president, consumer marketing. Chuck Townsend remains CEO but the appointment marks a split in responsibilities and a switch to Condé Nast’s newest “strategic course as a consumer-centric media and entertainment company.” The announcement was timed…

Maybe it’s just me but it felt like RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) dragged out this whole CEO search for too long. It’s not like Bob Kimball was an unknown: He’s been with the company since 1999. Maybe a month or two after Chairman Rob Glaser resigned as CEO in early January,…

The latest management change at Forbes: William Baldwin, Forbes’ editor since 1999, is stepping down to become a writer at the magazine effective Sept. 1. Baldwin’s departure comes two months after Forbes purchased freelance journalism site TrueSlant and put founder Lewis Dvorkin in charge of all editorial areas as chief…

News aggregator Daylife is making some additions to its executive team as it looks to build on the partnership it forged with Getty Images last year. The New York-based company has hired former Salon CEO Chris Neimeth and Marc Hedlund, who was the former head of Wesabe, a community site…

In what has to be seen as somewhat of a coup for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), considering the list of high-profile executives that have left recently, the company has hired Bill Shaughnessy, who was Microsoft’s VP of global ad sales and services until he left a year-and-a-half ago. Shaughnessy, however, isn’t…

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Advertising is doing some last refinishing following the simultaneous departure of Robin Domeniconi and the hiring of Carolyn Everson as corporate VP for Global Ad Sales. Keith Lorizio, who has been with the company for five years, is having marketing duties tacked on to his role as…

After a nearly four-month search to replace Chris Saridakis as chief digital officer, sources tell paidContent Gannett (NYSE: GCI) is close to promoting Josh Resnik to the post. A Gannett rep said that the company had no comment. If Gannett does move Resnik up as expected, it would be passing…

Now that its long-time CEO Carolyn McCall has flown off to run budget airline easyJet, Guardian Media Group is giving its interim replacement Andrew Miller the job permanently, effective immediately. Miller had been chief financial officer before he was picked as temporary chief when McCall announced her departure in April.

In April, News Corp acquired social gaming developer Irata Labs but said it would be separate from potentially obvious existing properties like MySpace or game network IGN Entertainment. Now paidContent has learned that Jon Miller has hired digital media and gaming vet Sean Ryan to set up a new games…

Database marketing company Infogroup has been acquired by affiliates of PE firm CCMP Capital Advisors. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. As we noted back in April, the Omaha, NE-based company was in the process of being acquired by CCMP and had hired former Dow Jones (NSDQ: NWS) executive…

Wired Creative Director Scott Dadich’s role is expanding to corporate Conde Nast following the initial success of the magazine’s iPad app. As Executive Director, Digital Magazine Development, he’ll work at the corporate level to develop simultaneous print/digital publishing systems for the various magazine brands based on the Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE)…

New Ziff Davis CEO Vivek Shah is pinning his business plan for the digital-only tech publisher on a mix of database marketing, advertising and subscription—and adding two senior execs to help. The company plans to announce today that Bennett Zucker is joining as SVP/GM of Data Solutions, focusing on mining…