The media-centric US boutique bank that brokered Bebo to AOL (NYSE: TWX) is setting up a London office. Wendell Brooks will leave Citigroup after 15 years to head the UK…

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Bebo has hired Philip Macartney, a sales exec with Dublin’s FM104 radio station, as head of sales in Ireland, one of its most popular territories. Macartney a founder of online…

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— AOL (NYSE: TWX) Europe’s Chad Wollen is quitting the internet company for ITV (LSE: ITV), where he becomes director of marketing strategy, where he will develop the marketing…

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The Internet Advertising Sales House, a part of the Interactive Advertising Bureau UK that oversees online sales firms, has named digital vet and former IASH head James Aitken as chairman,…

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Less than a month after David Verklin announced plans to leave his post as CEO of Aegis Media Americas, now comes word that Mainardo de Nardis is out as Aegis…

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-- Guardian: Guardian News & Media has promoted Guardian deputy editor Paul Johnson to head of news, business and sport, working across online, Guardian print and The Observer, according to…

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FT.com managing editor and publisher Ien Cheng, the Financial Times’ most senior digital executive, is quitting the company to take up the post of director of product management for advertising…

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News Group head of communication strategy Paul Thompson is quitting the company and heading over to Yahoo Europe, where he has landed the position of head of planning and strategy,…

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Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) is continuing to shuffle the multimedia chairs at its regional division, promoting Liverpool Daily Post and Echo assistant digital editor David Higgerson to regional multimedia head.…

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Al Gore-backed progressive video network Current has appointed Bauer Consumer Media digital business director Rebekah Billingsley as its first UK new media director. She leaves the former Emap (LSE: EMA),…

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CBS (NYSE: CBS) has named former Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Xbox brand manager Orlena Yeung as Last.fm’s first marketing VP - a post we reported the company would create last week.…

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Financial Times is promoting chief information officer Yasmin Jetha to chief operating officer. It’s not the only sign of an increasing technology influence at the highest level - Jetha is…

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Is this PR or HR? Controversial behavioural targeting net Phorm has hired a chief privacy officer. DoubleClick privacy and government affairs VP Jeffrey Brooks will be tasked with ensuring the…

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-- Eurosport: Eurosport is poaching MSN France group channel manager Arnaud Maillard to become its internet director. MediaWeek: “Maillard will focus on developing Eurosport’s interactive community and games.” Indeed, though…

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Telegraph Media Group is promoting politics editor Iain Martin to a new role of head of comment and community, in a move that integrates the letters and blogs operations across…

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The Economist Group CEO Helen Alexander is leaving the publisher after 23 years to become an adviser to private equity house Bain Capital. Her replacement, from July 15, will be…

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Bye-bye, OpenX. The open-source ad server platform, which rebranded from OpenAds in February, is moving HQ from London to Los Angeles. In the process, it’s hiring Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) former…

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BBC Worldwide is expanding its North American ad sales operations, allowing for selling ads across BBC.com and its related cable channels for the first time, the commercial arm of UK’s…

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- BT: BT (NYSE: BT) CEO Ben Verwaayen will step down after six years on June 1, to be replaced by Ian Livingston, CEO of the BT Retail division. Verwaayen…

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Index Ventures partner Danny Rimer has added BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) to the growing number of board tables around which he sits. Rimer, who opened Index in London in 2002 and…

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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Europe is promoting business sales VP Christophe Parcot to fill the top sales VP spot after losing Javier Zapatero to Google (NSDQ: GOOG). Zapatero will become Google’s…

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Just got off the phone with Douglas Merrill, the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CIO who is leaving what he called “the best CIO job in the world” to join EMI as…

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Another high profile Google (NSDQ: GOOG) departure: VP of Engineering Douglas Merrill has left the online giant and joined the embattled music label EMI as its new digital president, apparently…

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The Associated Press is aiming to sell its digital content to more clients outside the US with the promotion of Deanna Gullery to a new position of digital business development…

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Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) is appointing former Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) portal management director Chris Bunyan as the digital director for its regional business. David Black had held the position…

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