Moves - 04.02.10

4 February 2010

Peer-to-peer news and information network Current.com has appointed Derek Lamberton as digital media director. He has been consulting with Current since mid October and was previously online production director at National Geographic Channels International. Prior to that he was online editor at the National Geographic Society in Washington DC. Lamberton will report to James DuBern, Current.com’s VP of content.

Digital agency Jam has recruited Lisa Keddie as head of video. She was managing editor of video services at RealNetworks.

Webcast platform BrightTalk has appointed Rebecca Allen as sales director. She was previously head of client services at Howto.tv.

Video ad network Tremor Media has appointed Tim Williams as sales director. He joins from Utarget.Fox where he was online account director.

Email marketing services provider Epsilon International has hired Janne Nyman as head of deliverability and Kate Gowers as account manager. Nyman was network security technical specialist at IDsec, while Gowers joins from Sethire.com.

Integrated agency Lewis Creative Consultants has appointed Scott Walker as digital design director. He was design director at Altogether Digital.

Integrated agency Touch DDB has appointed Patricia Synephias as senior account manager. She was account manager at Euro RSCG KLP.

Red Bee Media has appointed Brian Levy as director and chief technology officer. He was worldwide VP and CTO at Hewlett-Packard.

Digital agency EMC Consulting has appointed Katerina Mavroidis as senior practice consultant. She was previously senior planner at Publicis Modem.

Online marketing consultancy Stream:20 has hired Sarah Drew as senior consultant. She was marketing director and general manager at TheLadders.co.uk.

Digital agency Syzygy has promoted Andy Stevens to group COO and James Briscoe to MD of Unique Digital UK. Stevens was MD of Unique and Briscoe his deputy.

Digital entertainment specialist Littleloud has recruited Emma Timms as head of production. She joins from Babel Media where she was senior project manager.

Search technology specialist Marin Software has hired James Lewis as manager of professional services. He was lead developer at Open X.

Digital agency Poker PR has promoted Justin Pywell from social media manager to head of social media.