David Elton has been hired by Arkadium as General Manager. He will be reporting to Arkadium’s Founder and CEO, Kenny Rosenblatt. Mr. Elton brings to Arkadium 18 years of games industry experience with console, mobile, handheld and free to play online titles. He has also served as an Advisory Board Member at the Canadian Video Games Awards.  He has worked on titles including Family Guy Online, X-Men:Destiny, Need for Speed World Online, FIFA Street, Dragon’s Lair 2, Dragon’s Lair and Space Ace.

Mr. Rosenblatt says of Mr. Elton, “David has amazing experience that spans across this entire industry, and he brings a wealth of knowledge of game development process from various platform and organizations.”

Mr. Elton began his career as a project manager at Acclaim. Subsequently he has held creative director roles at Electronic Arts, a Business Development Manager at Microsoft Game Studios and a Director of Design at Silicon Knights. He attained a BA degree from the University of Guelph.

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Prior to joining Clear Channel, Mr. Kaminsky served as Chief Operating Officer for The Huffington Post at AOL. Other roles at The Huffington Post include Senior Vice President and General Manager; General Manager of News and Vice President of Advertising Sales Operations. He also previously served as Vice President Global Revenue Operations, Reuters Media for Thomson Reuters, Vice President of Advertising Sales Operations at Reuters, Director of Operations and Business Manager at Yahoo! and a Media Planner for Buena Vista Television.

Mr. Kaminsky holds an MBA from the City University of New York -Baruch College and a BA in English from Syracuse University.

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Mr. Raab says of his new role, “I look forward to working with my new colleagues to provide even more value to our customers and create further efficiencies across the business.  I’m also excited to be part of a company that is expanding so quickly and to lead the growth of our talented technology team.”

Prior to joining Yodle, Mr. Raab served as Chief Technology Officer at M5 Networks, where he built out the infrastructure for a VoIP and data product. Other prior roles include Chief Technology Officer at Toktumi, Chief Executive Officer at AIG Telecom and Chief Technology Officer at IDT Corporation and Epana Networks. Mr. Raab holds a BA in Physics and Mathematics from Columbia University and a PhD in Atomic and Molecular Physics from MIT.

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If Barbie were real, she’d have half a liver because her waist is so small.  With so long and narrow a neck, she’d be unable to lift her head. Moreover, she couldn’t stand — it would be physically impossible with her teensy-weensy child’s size three feet in the permanent high-heel position. She’d have to crawl.

Every two seconds, a Barbie is sold. Every year, 15 million dolls make their way into the hands of little girls. Too few of them grow up to be CEOs. While a the iconography of a single doll seems trivial, it is not when it has served as a role model for our daughters for more than fifty years. Rehabs.com, which published the infographic below, points out that four out of five 10-year-olds say that they’re afraid of being fat. 42% of girls in first through third grade wish they were thinner. And, half of girls aged 9 or 10 claim that they feel better about themselves when they’re dieting.

On January 1st of this year, we achieved a new milestone when the number of female CEOs in the Fortune 500 rose to 21. The number represents a paltry 4.2% when parity would be 50%. Though there are many contributing factors,Barbie is so imbedded deep in our psyches that I suspect the number of female CEOs will not change until Barbie does.

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Mr. Benett said of Mr. Farrell, “with the addition of the chief content officer role, we’re enhancing our creative and digital offering, and further establishing our credentials as an industry leader in digital and with expertise in content.”

Mr. Farrell comes to Havas Worldwide from the digital agency R/GA where he served as Senior Vice President of Creative Operations. He also held earlier roles as Senior Director of Content at SpikeTV.com and worked in production at Digitas.

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Previously, Mr. Pietsch served as Executive Vice President, Hatchette Book Group and Publisher at Little, Brown where he was responsible for bringing out best sellers by authors including, James Bradley, Tina Fey, Erin Hilderbrand, J.K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer. He also oversaw the launch of Mulholland Books in 2012. Prior to becoming Publisher, Mr. Pietsch was appointed Editor in Chief, where he acquired and edited thrillers written by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and others.

Mr. Pietsch serves on many boards, including Poets and Writers, Bookish, AAP and World Book Night. He resides in Ossining, NY with his wife and children.

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Joe Schmitt was named Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Stamford, CT based Pitney Bowes.  He will be leading information technology strategy and infrastructure including data centers, technical centers, communication networks and enterprise software applications. Mr. Schmitt will report into Kevin Connolly, Vice President, Global Client Services.

Prior to joining Pitney Bowes, Mr. Schmitt served as Chief Information Officer at Steward Health Care; Chief Information Officer and Operations Executive at Cerberus Capital Management; Head of Lending Operations, Technology and Six Sigma at General Electric Capital and Chief Information Officer at General Electric.

He holds a BS in Economics and Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

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PointRoll, a Gannett company, announced the appointment of Mario Diez as Chief Executive Officer.  He returns to the company after nearly ten years ago when he launched the company’s New York office in 2003. Mr. Diez says of his new role, “I joined PointRoll as its 13th employee more than a decade ago, and today, I am returning as its 266th. We intend to drive innovation and value just as we did as a startup, all while providing the same quality service that has been our hallmark throughout.”

After leaving PointRoll in 2006, Mr. Diez went on to serve as Regional Director, New York and Vice President, Eastern Region at Centro; Vice President, Aperture Sales at Datran Media; Senior Vice President of Sales at quadrantONE and Chief Executive Officer at quadrantONE.  He has a BA in Business Management from Gettysburg College.

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The Women’s Media Center report by Diana Mitsu Klos does a masterful job of reviewing  and summarizing the findings of “an avalanche of new surveys, studies and reports.”  The evidence documents “stubborn gender inequality in the ways that women are employed and represented in news, entertainment and technology- related media.” It turns out that the 2085 projection comes from a study by the Women’s College of the University of Denver and the White House Project, a nonprofit, non-partisan women’s leadership group. Even when women outperform their male counterparts, they are still not recognized for senior leadership positions.

Another report 2012 study by the nonprofit Catalyst details women executive percentages that come nowhere near approaching the 51% percent of the population that are women.

• 14.3 % of executive officer positions at Fortune 500 companies and 8.1 percent of executive officer top earner positions.
• 16.6 % of board seats in 2012 were held by women — the seventh consecutive year of no growth.
• 0% of the executive officer roles are held by women at more than one-quarter of the Fortune 50o. In other words, they have no women leaders.

Now that I have your attention, please take a moment download  the report. Then I suggest you sit down to read it. The report’s findings may knock the wind out of you. Then, let’s do something about it. First, answer one simple question about how to achieve parity for women executives before 2085. (Feel free to suggest other questions for subsequent polls.)
 

Please comment if you think women executives should achieve parity before Y208 and share your thoughts on how to get there.  If you also happen to be an executive in the position to do something about it, let’s talk. We do a lot of work in diversity. There are ways to make a difference.

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There is now a treasure trove of data available on candidates. However, in most cases, it is not current, it is not complete, and increasingly it is not structured. Moreover, there is so much information available, recruiters are suffering from information overload. Increasingly, they’re missing top talent, not because the candidates are hard to find, but because they cannot see the forest for the trees.

Executive search “best practices” were never designed to deal with Big Data. In other words, the so-called “best practices” are no longer the best.  Moreover, traditional retained search firms haven’t invested in the serious research expertise needed to mitigate the risk and to harness the power of Big Data.

Wrangling all that information takes deep investigative and big data analytics skills — expertise you typically do not find in the world of recruiting. It represents both a threat and an opportunity that I detail in our latest video.

(Of course, our retained search practice is wrapped around our robust research division Intellerati.)

We welcome your thoughts and comments on recent trends you’ve witnessed.

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