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Career Moves: August 14, 2006

Authored by dmw on August 14, 2006 - 8:59am.
Bill Figenshu, COO of SWMX, will assume an expanded role within the organization – taking over for Charles Omphalius. This will include greater oversight and direction of sales and busines development, client service, marketing and operating administration.
http://www.swmx.com/


Kay Johansson joins MobiTV as its CTO. Johansson will drive the creation, development and deployment of mobile television technologies on mobile devices and PCs over the broad array of netowrks. Johansson previously served as CTO for Popwire, a former Ericsson company, in Sweden.
http://www.mobitv.com/


Michael Abrams has been promoted to President of Live Nation Studios from Executive Vice President, Product Development. In his new role, Abrams will oversee the previously announced initiative to transform 120 Live Nation venues and festival sites throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe into next generation “wired” studios.
http://www.livenation.com/


Double Fusion hires Julie Shumaker as Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Shumaker, one of the best-known executives in the in-game advertising industry, will lead the Double Fusion sales team with her signature vision. Previously, Shumaker was EA's National Director of sales, Videogame Advertising.
http://www.doublefusion.com/


PhotoWorks®, Inc., an internet based digital photo-publishing company,has named Andy Wood as its new President and CEO, effective August 16, 2006. Wood has held CEO positions for more than 15 years, including two years at Shutterfly.
http://www.photoworks.com/


BreakAway has named Paul Mauritz as its Executive Vice President for Corporate Strategy and General Manager of BreakAway Federal Systems. Mauritz was formerly the Assistant Secretary for Technology and Business Development with the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development. In his new role, he will oversee the company’s serious games business and handle business development, sales, and marketing.
http://www.breakawaygames.com/


BreakAway has named Lawrence Brenner as its Executive Vice President of Finance and Operations. Brenner is the former CFO of Boulder Ventures. He will be supporting the company’s strategic and development initiatives and will also be incharge of financial planning and management, IT infrastructure, and risk management.
http://www.breakawaygames.com/


BreakAway has named Thomas Kingston as its Director of Business Development. He was formerly Senior Director for Advanced Technology for the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development.
http://www.breakawaygames.com/


BreakAway hired Steve Meyer as its Vice President of Development. Meyer most recently served as the President and CEO of Meyer/Glass Design.
http://www.breakawaygames.com/


BreakAway has named veteran Deborah Tillett as its Executive Vice President of Development. Tillett is responsible for leading all of the development efforts across the entertainment game, serious game and product segments of the Company.
http://www.breakawayfederal.com/


BreakAway Federal Systems has named verteran Lucien Parsons as its Director of Licensed Products.
http://www.breakawayfederal.com/


Velocity Micro has named Christopher Morley as its Director of Product Development. Morley has experience at BOXX Technologies and founded custom gaming system maker PCFX Technologies.
http://www.velocitymicro.com/


Velocity Micro has named Ignacio Castillo as its Senior Development Engineer. Castillo was previously Product Development Engineer at Alienware.
http://www.velocitymicro.com/


John Stevenson was named publisher of Time For Kids, a weekly newsmagazine in this media company’s Time multimedia brand. Mr. Stevenson, 44, succeeds Jodi Kahn, who left to be president of digital business at Reader’s Digest Association Inc. Mr. Stevenson was director of consumer marketing for InStyle. A succession plan hasn’t been announced.
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/


Yahoo! has hired Peter Daboll as its Chief of Insights and Global Market Research, a newly created position. Daboll will head research at the internet company and will work with the company’s product development, ad sales and marketing teams. Previously, Daboll was CEO of ComScore Media Metrix.
http://www.yahoo.com


Nielsen Media Research has named Catherine Herkovic to the position of General Manager to head its Local Business Unit, where she will report to Susan D. Whiting, President/CEO. Based in New York, Catherine will be responsible for sales and marketing, production and delivery of data, product services, quality assurance and information technology for the company’s local clients.
http://www.nielsenmedia.com/


Jamie Howard has been hired by Imagine Communications as its President and CEO. Howard most recently served as COO of BigBand Networks.
http://www.imagine-com.com/

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