Buddy Media made some big hires this week, hiring executive sales staffers in Asia and the United States, while other companies made some other sales and engineering hires.

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Here’s this week’s list of hires:

Buddy Media

• Ken Mandel, Managing Director, Asia – formerly worked as Regional Vice President of Advertising Sales and Marketplace for Yahoo Asia Pacific.
• Carla Bourque, Senior Vice President, Western Region (U.S.) Sales – previously worked  at Six Apart (acquired by SAY Media), Nielsen Online, Catalina Marketing, Jupiter Media Metrix, and SPINS (an ACNielsen partner).
• Amy Kalokerinos, Account Director – formerly an Account Executive at Salesforce.com.

Involver

• Gurrinder Kharbanda, Software Engineer – formerly worked as a Software Engineer/Marketing Analytics at Facebook.

BranchOut

• Marshall Zhang, University Marketing Associate – formerly a Mobile Application Developer Intern at Vanguard.

Efficient Frontier

• David Hardy, Account Manager – formerly an Associate Account Manager at Efficient Frontier.

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