—*Activision* Blizzard: Marketing and ads vet Eric Hirshberg has been named CEO of Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) Publishing, effective September 7. He assumes the position from Mike Griffith, who was promoted to vice chairman of Activision Blizzard, and will report to the company’s COO, Thomas Tippl. Hirshberg comes from Deutsch LA…

—National Geographic Global Media: Ted Prince has been promoted to the new position of COO for NGGM. Prior to joining the company in 2003 as VP of business development for National Geographic Ventures, he was SVP of strategy and business development at AOL (NYSE: AOL). —HealthiNation: Matthew Pasternak has joined…

—Tremor Media: Former Google (NSDQ: GOOG) exec Matthew Corbin has been appointed to the new position of VP of global platform solutions to lead Tremor’s video platform and network strategy. Most recently, Corbin was the head of YouTube’s global partnerships and revenue operations for North America, Latin America and EMEA.…

—*American Greetings* Interactive: Josef Mandelbaum, the longtime president of AG Interactive, has left for a CEO position at an Israeli company, beginning early August. He didn’t name the company, saying only it is a “small public” one that has “a lot of potential for growth.” Sally Babcock has been promoted…

—Quantcast: Operational finance veteran Julio Pekarovic joins Quantcast as CFO. Previously he worked for seven years at Google (NSDQ: GOOG), most recently as VP, global sales finance operations. —MySpace: Joe Maloney is joining as content vertical lead. No stranger to the social net, he previously was VP of product at…

—MySpace: Manu Rekhi has been named GM of MySpace (NYSE: NWS) Games and developer platform. Most recently, he oversaw strategy, marketing, business development and corporate development at Lolapps. Before that he was a product manager at Google. —Simulmedia: John Piccone has joined the company in the new role of VP…

—Thrillist: Bauer Publishing’s Mark Oltarsh joins Thrillist as chief revenue officer. He previously was VP and group publisher of In Touch Weekly and Life & Style magazines. He has also held sales leadership positions at Spin, Conde Nast’s Details and Vanity Fair, and Dennis Publishing’s Maxim and Stuff. —About: Mitchell…

—PopCap Games: The video game maker hired Frits Habermann as its CTO, reporting to EVP of Studios Ed Allard. Habermann succeeds Brian Fiete, a company co-founder, who transitions to the new role of Technology Fellow. Habermann joins PopCap after 20 years at Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE), most recently as VP of…

—Apple: Tony Fadell, one of the chief architects of the company’s audio strategy, is leaving Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) for good, Digital Daily reports. Over a year ago he stepped down as SVP of the iPod division, but had stayed on as an adviser. —McGraw-Hill: Keith Fox was named president of…

—Fortune/CNNMoney: Jed Hartman is now group publisher of Fortune magazine and CNNMoney, Mediabistro reports. He will work closely with Fortune Publisher Hugh Wiley and CNNMoney SVP Liberty Carras, while reporting to Time (NYSE: TWX), Inc. President Mark Ford. Previously, Hartman was publisher of The Week and earlier, a sales director…

—Zynga: The FarmVille creator has hired Steven Chiang as president of the development studios, CEO Marc Pincus announced on his blog this week. Chiang co-founded EA-owned Tiburon Entertainment, the studio best known for the Madden NFL franchise. A longtime EA executive, he was most recently SVP and group GM for…

—Tremor Media: Mark Pinney has been promoted to COO from CFO. He joined Tremor Media two years ago, having come from AOL’s Platform-A (NYSE: AOL). Earlier, he was CFO and chief privacy officer for Tacoda, also an AOL property. —TVGuide.com: Christy Tanner has been appointed GM, responsible for the company’s…

—NexTag: Orbitz founder Jeffrey G. Katz has signed on as CEO of the comparison shopping site. He most recently served as chairman, president and CEO of LeapFrog Enterprises. —BTIG: Pali Capital analysts Rich Greenfield and Walter Piecyk have joined investment brokerage BTIG to lead its new research group, where they…

—Forbes Media: Longtime Forbes exec Kevin Gentzel has been promoted to chief revenue officer, leading ad sales and marketing for North America and Europe, as well as the teams for Forbes magazine, Forbes.com, ForbesLife and Forbes Woman. He previously was president and group publisher of Forbes Media and earlier, chief…

—Goodmail Systems: Peter Horan, former CEO at About.com and IAC (NSDQ: IACI) Advertising & Media, is relinquishing his CEO position at Goodmail Systems. He will still remain the Chairman. Going ahead, he plans to do angel investing and consulting for startups and media companies. —MySpace: Katie Geminder, SVP of user…

—Simulmedia: Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) veteran Jon Werther is joining as chief revenue officer. Most recently, he was EVP of integrated operations at AOL (NYSE: AOL). CEO Dave Morgan founded Simulmedia as well as marketing service Tacoda, which was sold to AOL in 2007. —USA Today: Former Cablevision (NYSE: CVC)…

—comScore: Chris Nicotra is joining as CTO, a role vacated by current COO Greg Dale. Previously, Nicotra was SVP of AOL (NYSE: AOL) advertising technology and CTO/CIO for Advertising.com. He joins fellow AOL alum Eric Bosco, who last month joined comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) as chief product officer. —Amazon: Microsoft’s Mike…

—Pandora: Doug Sterne has been promoted to VP of audio sales, following a surge in audio ad sales. Prior to Pandora, he was VP of sales at Clear Channel (OTCBB: CCMO) Online Music and Radio. [Release] —Federated Media: Andre Torrez is stepping down from his post as CTO, writes John…

—MySpace: Shari Friedman is being promoted to SVP Advertising Sales, West. Friedman, who joined the social net as VP, Entertainment Sales in 2006, reports to Nada Stirratt, MySpace’s chief revenue officer. Before MySpace, Friedman spent six years at AOL (NYSE: AOL), also working on the entertainment ad side. —Google: John…