Adconion goes on a hiring spree, plus other interactive industry hires, partnerships, launches and announcements.

Adconion Media Group announced a series of hires by its North American sales team and the opening of a new office in Chicago as it continues to grow rapidly in North America. Liz Schiff was appointed VP of East Coast sales and Michael Parkes was named director of East Coast sales.

AdShuffle, an ad serving and marketing technology company, announced its official launch. AdShuffle's technology includes real-time reporting and automated creative and landing page optimization in one solution for advertisers and publishers. Prior to its launch, AdShuffle operated in beta for 18 months, served billions of impressions and worked with top online agencies, advertisers and publishers. 

ComScore announced the election of Jeffrey Ganek to its board of directors.

Coremetrics, a provider of digital marketing optimization solutions, has appointed Jay A. Holmstrom as VP for worldwide consulting services.

Fanscape has hired Lori Dicker to serve as VP of interactive media.

Greater Than One, an independent digital agency, is restructuring its senior management, naming Elizabeth Izard Apelles chairman and CEO, and Richard Newman president. In addition, Joellen Sommer, who joined the company in 2007, was named CFO.

HipCricket, a mobile marketing company, announced the appointment of Greg York as VP of engineering. A mobile technology veteran, York will play an integral role in helping the company evolve its solutions to build on its leadership position.

Jumpstart Automotive Media announced that Grant Whitmore has joined the company as GM, publisher and business development.

Moxio Interactive, a division of Zenith Media Services, has hired David Goodrich, who will serve as the company's SVP and managing director.

Nurun, a global interactive marketing agency, announced that Steve Carbone has joined the agency as its president of North America.

Pixsy Corporation, a B2B provider of private label video and image search engines to websites and applications, announced a distribution partnership with Ditto, Inc., a leading visual search engine.

Travel Ad Network, a vertical ad network in travel, announced that Brian Silver has been promoted to president.

Tremor Media, a leading online video advertising network, announced that Steve Pearson, a veteran media industry software engineer, has been named SVP of engineering.

Editor's note: We list the companies and people alphabetically according to what company hires what person or another company. Our bi-weekly column is always looking for announcements, so please email them to mediamotions@imediaconnection.com.

Michael Estrin is associate editor at iMediaConnection.