Up the Ladder

- UpMyStreet.com has hired two new commercial managers and an online
sales executive. Caroline Isom, previously at Teletext, and Nick
Thomson, previously at Reed Exhibitions, join UpMyStreet.com as
commercial managers, while Pushpa Raj will join as online sales
executive. Annabel McQueen becomes group agency manager overseeing the
agency commercial team.

- Telecom Express has appointed Matthew Pitt as digital director, as the
interactive services company prepares to roll out a new range of digital
services. Pitt joins with more than 20 years' experience in digital and
media consultancy. Most recently he was managing partner of Generator
Consulting, the digital management consultancy division of UK digital
media agency I-Level, which he founded in April 2002.

- Publisher Hachette Filipacchi UK has made two appointments to its
newly created digital division. Priya Prakash, who joined last month, is
now creative director and Jae Lee has taken up her former position as
art director. They join from BBC Future Media and Technology and BBC
Vision respectively.

- Etv has appointed Gareth Collett as director of programmes for NutsTV,
reporting to Adrian Swift, etv's director of television. Collett, who
joins from Chris Evans' UMTV where he was executive producer and
creative director, will take responsibility for all editorial output and
spearhead a team of 50 production crew.

- Adstream has appointed former Grey London new business director Nerida
Mudie to the position of UK head of marketing and business development.
Prior to joining Grey London, she was based in Australia, where she
worked in a similar role at advertising agency TBWA.

- KBH Transport Media, the rail and taxi outdoor contractor, has hired
Jeremy Taylor, currently product manager for Ticket Gateways at CBS
Outdoor, as an account manager. He will handle outdoor specialist
Posterscope and associated agencies and clients and will report to Gerri
Kilgallon, group head of sales.