Nintendo of America announces the appointment of two sales and marketing executives to work from the company's new Bay Area office in Redwood City, Calif. Denise Kaigler joins as vice president of Marketing & Corporate Affairs, while Bill Van Zyll becomes the new director and general manager of Latin America. Van Zyll's appointment is effective immediately, while Kaigler starts Feb. 18. Both will report to Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of Sales & Marketing.

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Vringo, avideo ringtone sharing company, announced today that two figures in global mobile telephony—Ralph Simon and Jeff Belk—have become the first members of the company’s new board of advisors.

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Looking to expand its digital operations, McLean-based Gannett, the publisher of USA Today and 84 other daily newspapers, on Monday named Chris Saridakis, the former CEO of its PointRoll rich media unit, as its senior vice president and chief digital officer. The company also has named Jack Williams as the president of Gannett Digital Ventures, which will oversee Gannett's portfolio of online classified companies and other

diversified businesses. Jason Tafler succeeds Saridakis as the CEO of PointRoll. Saridakis had been the CEO of PointRoll since 2005, following two years as the company's COO. Earlier, he served as senior vice president and general manager of the Global TechSolutions division of DoubleClick.