Movers & Shakers

• September 27th, 2012

Jessica Dunne is joining Mattel as its GM and SVP of Consumer Products. In this role she'll oversee licensing for top Mattel brands including Hot Wheels, Barbie, Monster High, American Girl, and Fisher-Price. Prior to this position, she's worked at Disney, most recently as the EVP of Licensing for Disney Classic Characters and Disney Baby. She also served as EVP of Global Licensing for Disney Consumer Products, EVP of Disney Moms and Babies, and EVP of Global Toys and Electronics. She has additionally served as the SVP of Network Marketing and Off-Channel Commerce at Cartoon Network. (Kidscreen)

• September 19th, 2012

Buzzfeed has hired Jeff Greenspan to serve as its first Chief Creative Officer as the fast-growing digital-media company is becoming more involved in sponsorship projects and ad units. Greenspan previously worked at Facebook where he collaborated with agencies and marketers to develop ads and campaigns that Facebook users would want to share. He also has worked at Greenspan worked at Omnicom Group's BBDO, New York and Interpublic Group of Cos.' R/GA. In this new role, Greenspan will  oversee a 15-person creative team. He is also adding two new members two his team: Chris Baker, formerly of Google and BBDO, and one of the creators of the Unbaby.me browser plug-in that filters out baby photos from Facebook news feeds; and Mike Lacher, who worked with Messrs. Greenspan and Baker on The World's Most Exclusive Website. (AdAge)

• September 17th, 2012

Annie Stone has been named Associate Editor at Harlequin TEEN. She was previously Assistant Editor at HarperCollins. (Publishers Weekly)

• September 17th, 2012

Mary Ann Zissimos is Senior Publicist at HarperCollins Children's Books. She was previously a Senior Publicist at Abrams. (Publishers Weekly)

• September 17th, 2012

Elke Villa has been named Director, Marketing for Disney Book Group. She previously was Associate Director, Marketing of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. (Publishers Weekly)

• September 6th, 2012

Warner Bros. Pictures has named Jack Horner Executive VP of Theatrical Communications. In this position, he'll handle corporate PR issues for the film division. He most recently served as VP of Corporate Affairs and Corporate Communications for News Corp. (Variety)

• September 6th, 2012

Nickelodeon appoints Russel Hicks to the newly created position of President of Content Development and Production, replacing Brown Johnson, who exits the company. Hicks has been with Nickelodeon for fourteen years and has served as the CCO since 2008. In this position, he oversaw all of Nickelodeon's creative, on-air promotions, consumer products, brand and advertising divisions. Prior to working at Nickelodeon, he served as VP of marketing for Cartoon Network/Turner brands for Warner Brothers.

In Hick's new role, he'll be responsible for leading the company’s live-action, animation development and production teams for all of the company’s content platforms. Margie Cohn has also been promoted to the new Nickelodeon role of President of Content Development for Live-Action, Animation and Digital. Both these promotions were made as Nickelodeon is expanding its content for the fall and into 2013, including many live-action projects. (Kidscreen)

• September 6th, 2012

Joanna Coles, the former Editor in Chief of Marie Claire has been named the new Editor in Chief of Cosmpolitan, replacing Kate White. Coles has also previously worked at The Guardian, The Times of London, New York Magazine and More magazine. (NY Times)

• September 6th, 2012

Barbara Marcus, the former president of children's book publishing at Scholastic has been named President and Publisher of Random House Children's Books. She spent 22 years at Scholastic before resigning in 2005 and oversaw the U.S. acquisition of J.K. Rowling's series and the publication of six of the seven Potter novels. (Crains New York)

• August 23rd, 2012

Harleen Kahlon has been named the Senior Vice President of Digital at Oxygen Media and she'll lead the digital team in developing plans for the release of new and returning shows on digital platforms. She also will create sales strategies to increase revenue growth across the company's online platforms, including Oxygen.com and Oxygen Mobile. Prior to joining Oxygen, Harleen worked for Bundle Corporation and has also held positions at the New York Observer. (Yahoo)

• August 23rd, 2012

Debra Crew has been appointed to the newly created role of President-Americas Beverages at PepsiCo, and she'll oversee the Gatorade and Tropicana businesses in North America, the Latin America Beverages business and the North America warehouse sales organization and Beverage Growth Ventures Group. She's been with PepsiCo since 2010 and has previously worked at Mars, Kraft, and Nestle. (AdAge)

• August 23rd, 2012

Fox appoints Kevin Reilly to Chairman of Entertainment and he'll be in charge of programming, scheduling, marketing, research and business affairs. He has been with Fox since 2007 and contributed to the success of its hit shows "Glee," "New Girl," and "The X Factor," and prior to this was President of Entertainment at NBC. (Reteurs)