PRODUCTION COMPANIES
LA-based Anonymous Content signed British spot and music video director Jake Nava.

London's Blink/Colonel Blimp signed Tokyo-based filmmaker Kosai Sekine for UK rep.

LA's kaboom launched a video division called Boom and signed director Brandon Dickerson.

Toronto-based Brown Entertainment signed Jamie Travis for spot representation.

LA-based Roses are Blue changed its name to Caviar and signed director Frank De Vos.

HSI Productions signed creative team Don Shelford and John Knecht (Don & John).

Little Minx, a division of RSA, signed Stephanie Green for US and UK representation.

Director Bart Timmer signed with Santa Monica-based Outsider USA for US rep.

London-based Partizan signed director Warren Kushner for worldwide representation.

Fallon London's Kirsty Burns left her role as head of TV to join Rattling Stick's new branded content division.

London's Rogue Films hired EP Adam Saward, and directors Daniel Wolfe and Jonathan Lovekin.

Director Elma Garcia signed with LA's Space Program for commercial representation.

Toronto's Steam Films hired Krista Marshall as EP. Former EP Dan Ford left the company.

Patrick Daughters (ex-RSA/Black Dog) and Andy Bruntel signed with LA's The Director's Bureau for commercials and music videos.

Toronto's The Garden signed US mograph specialists Transistor Studios in Canada.

Villains hired Nancy Osborne (ex-Uncle) as EP in the company's Beverly Hills office.

POST / AUDIO / ANIMATION
New York's Blacklist, the new media animation arm of Psyop, signed Brazilian collective Cisma for North American representation.

Music house Brahmstedt White Noise hired composers Justin Asher and Annie Holoien.

Santa Monica's Brickyard VFX hired lead 3D artist Julian Sarmiento to its CG Division.

Austin's charlieuniformtango promoted Michele Tongate to the position of EP.

LA's Emoto Music has added British artist Goldfrapp to its roster of musicians.

David Drucker left music branding company Elias Arts, and joined creative design studio Eyeball NYC as CFO/COO.

Finger Music hired Tania Thiele, from Cosmo Street Editorial, as EP in its LA office.

New York's Headlight Design + VFX hired Ders Hallgren as CD.

LA's Hest & Kramer Music named Christy Van House and Jim Weber partners. Weber also becomes ECD.

LA's Jigsaw Editorial added Stuart Waks and France's Oliver Gajan to its roster.

Toronto post-house The Juggernaut hired Aaron Dark, formerly of School, and Marcus Valetin, formerly of Relish, to head up its offline editing roster.

Post-house Optimus hired editor Shira Ankori, previously of Red Car Los Angeles, to work from Chicago and LA.

New York motion graphics house wildstyle changed its name to Resident and added Scott Pryor as managing director.

LA-based sound design studio Wow and Flutter West hired freelance consultant David Marcus as director of operations.

AD AGENCIES
LA-based 72andSunny hired art director Rob Abeyta, Jr., who recently oversaw the Zune Arts program.

New York agency Creative Bubble hired David Cohen as EVP, creative services.

DDB Chicago promoted Bill Cimino and Diane Ruggie to GCDs. Both were previously CDs.

Deutsch New York president/CCO Kathy Delaney and partner-director of account planning Jeffrey Wolf left the agency to pursue other interests.

Toronto's DraftFCB Canada appointed former president of FCB Canada Paul Mead as president. Mead named former FCB Toronto president John Boniface as COO and former FCB Toronto ECD Robin Heisey as CCO. Draft Toronto president Peter Coish left the agency.

Toronto's doug agency hired former Unilever marketer and business consultant Mike Welling as president.

Lowe Roche Advertising in Toronto named Scot Keith as VP, general manager.

Creative team Steve Casey and Randy Tatum joined Minneapolis' Martin|Williams Advertising as VPs/group CDs.

LA's Tribal DDB hired former Nestlé brand manager Geoffrey Gougion as managing director.

Wieden + Kennedy has made a number of hires. Joakim Borgstrom joins the Amsterdam office as interactive creative director. Portland appointed Renny Gleeson as global director of digital strategies and New York promoted associate creative directing team, Derek Barnes and Paul Renner, to co-CDs on the ESPN account.

Atlanta's WestWayne hired John Rich, formerly of Dallas-based TM Advertising, as EVP/interactive communications.

HOOKUPS> MERGERS, PARTNERSHIPS AND WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE INDUSTRY
he Association of Independent Commercial Producers tapped Biscuit Filmworks founder and EP Shawn Lacy Tessaro as chairperson for the 16th Annual AICP Show, The Art & Technique of the American Commercial, which takes place in New York in June.

Bartle Bogle Hegarty opened its first shop for the Chinese market after becoming one of the first ad agencies to be granted a license to operate independently in the country. The global firm's new office is located in Shanghai; the client roster includes Johnnie Walker, Mentos and Baileys.

Cannes International Advertising Festival organizers have added two new categories: the Integrated Campaigns Lions and Integrated Grand Prix will honor advertising that spans three or more media, while the Titanium Lions and Titanium Grand Prix will reward only breakthrough ideas.

Toronto's NewNewFilms inked a deal with London's Pink Films to represent directors Karen Cunningham, Steve Bendelack and Michael Geoghegan in the Canadian commercial market.

New York's R/GA opened a full-service office in London to be the agency's hub for Europe.

LA's Sandwick Films inked a deal with Johannesburg-based Velocity Films to represent the company's roster and affiliate Freshwater Films in the US.

British visual effects house The Mill will open a new office in Santa Monica in January. The LA office will recruit local talent as well as creatives from the London and New York offices.

The One Club, a New York-based professional association, promoted three executives. Executive director Mary Warlick becomes CEO; marketing and interactive director Kevin Swanepoel is now president and board president David Baldwin becomes board chair.

Toronto's Wilfrid Park partnered with Independent Media Inc. to represent the LA-based prodco's feature film directors in Canada.

Toronto-based agency Zig moved into the American market through a partnership with Chicago's Hadrian's Wall. Hadrian's Wall principals Kevin Lynch and Steve Carli will keep an ownership stake in the firm, which was renamed Zig.