Nutrition, fitness and weight-loss company eDiets.com announced it has appointed Kevin N. McGrath to be its new President and CEO. Former CEO Stephen Rattner will remain with the company as its Executive Vice President of Corporate Services.
Semiconductor company NXP today announced the appointment of Richard Clemmer as its new President and CEO. Clemmer is a member of the company's supervisory board and also serves on the boards of NCR Corporation and i2 Technologies.
Denver, Colorado based IT company Merlin International announced today it has hired Bob McLernon to be its new head of Business Development in the company's Technology Systems Division (TSD).
Santa Monica-based startup Tsavo Media, headed by former Userplane CEO Michael Jones, recently hired Ryan Sit to the post of VP of Special Projects. Sean Percival, Tsavo's Director of content whose hiring we reported back in October, publicized the addition yesterday via Twitter.
Dallas, Texas based white lable social networking service Telligent announced today that it has appointed Carl Yankowski to its Board of Directors. Yankowski currently serves as CEO for Ambient Devices, Inc.
International IT company Planet Technologies announced today it has appointed John Brown to Director of its Europe, Middle East and Asia business. Brown was formerly Senior Manager of EMEA for the Germantown, Maryland headquartered company.
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Yesterday Tsavo Director of Content Sean Percival announced on his blog, "Yea I hired Mona Nomura and you didn't. :P". Known by some as the "Queen of FriendFeed", Mona will be blogging for the company's new property Twirlit, "a women's site that focuses on beauty, fashion, food, celeb gossip and more".
Online advertising company Turn announced last week it has hired Bill Demas to be its new President and Chief Operating Officer. Demas will report directly to company CEO and Chairman, Jim Barnett.
Technology-based brokerage services company Belzberg Technologies, Inc. announced this morning it has named Judith Robertson as its President and Chief Executive Officer. She will begin immediately.
