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Advertising agency Inter/Media has appointed two executives. Rich Contino has been promoted from manager of client services at Santa Monica-based Mercury Media to director of client services for Inter/Media. Leili Nassir, formerly associate account director for initiative media, has become associate planning director. Inter/Media is in Encino, CA.

Advanstar has named Ilene Schwartz to the position of director of lists and database marketing in the company’s communications marketing services group. Schwartz will be based in the Cleveland, Ohio, office.