ePrize: The interactive promotions agency announced yesterday the hiring of Craig Sprinkle as CFO and the promotion of Roy Krauthamer to vice president of fulfillment services. Sprinkle spent the past six years as the vice president of financial planning and analysis for Entertainment Publications, Inc., a leading provider of consumer savings and merchant discounts, best known for its flagship product, the Entertainment book. Krauthamer has been with ePrize for over three years and previously held the position of project management director. Prior to ePrize, he was an interactive development engineer for Georgia-Pacific.
GMR & AWE: In a combination of event marketing agencies with the same parent, GMR Marketing, LLC (GMR) has completed a merger with AWE. Both companies are units of Omnicom, and broaden the agency’s entertainment core competency. After working on shared projects for over two years, AWE will now join GMR’s current entertainment structure, creating a new division named GMR Entertainment with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and London. GMR Entertainment will be managed from GMR’s New York location and led by AWE (GMR Entertainment) co-presidents Bobby Oppenheim and Marcus Peterzell, who will serve as co-managing directors of the new venture, with all current staff staying in place. GMR and AWE recently collaborated on the Axe/Ludacris partnership, which last month won a 2007 Promo Live award.
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