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PEOPLE PLANE SITE: Marci Reaven developed the first show focusing on New York City during World War II. BUSINESS The gap in median pay between full-time working men and women in NY state Source: National Partnership for Women & Families $8,275 EXECUTIVE MOVES HBO: Richard Plepler, 53, was promoted to chief executive of the entertainment company. He was previously co-president. Buzzfeed: Jeff Greenspan, 42, joined the digital publishing company as chief creative officer, a newly created position. He was previously communication designer at Facebook. Chris Baker, 29, joined as creative director. He was previously a senior freelance writer. Mike Lacher, 27, joined as creative director. He was previously a creative technical consultant at Google. Related Cos.: Jeff T. Blau, 44, was promoted to chief executive of the property management company. He was previously president. Bruce A. Beal, 42, was promoted to president. He was previously executive vice president. Kenneth P. Wong, 56, was promoted to chief operating officer and director of international development. He was previously vice chairman. Lot18: Benjamin Trent, 32, joined the wine e-commerce company as chief technology officer. He was previously chief technology officer at DailyCandy. M&C Saatchi: Pierre Lipton, 40, joined the advertising agency network as chief creative officer. He was previously executive creative director at AKQA. Ballet Hispanico: Ross Kramberg, 57, joined the company as executive director. He was previously executive director at the Paul Taylor Dance Foundation. Cooper Square Realty Inc.: Aaron Mehta, 27, joined the residential property management company as director of energy information, a newly created position. He was previously business process manager at Williams Lea. Urban Engineers Inc.: Thomas E. Mitchell, 53, was promoted to director of national construction consulting services at the planning, design and construction services company. He was previously practice leader. Ernst & Young: Josh Herrenkohl, 39, was promoted to co-leader of the advisory firm’s U.S. construction and real estate advisory services practice. He was previously leader of real estate investor services. Media6Degrees: Avani Modi, 28, joined the marketing technology firm as director of marketing. She was previously senior marketing manager at IPC Systems. Oxygen Media: Roger Guillen, 40, joined the company as senior vice president and creative director. He was previously vice president and Olympic creative director of marketing for the 2012 London Olympics. TheWeek.com: Marc Ambinder, 33, buck ennis GOTHAM GIGS How NYC helped win WWII Curating the untold story of Gotham’s greatest gen In the archives: a Jewish librarian who spied on a local Nazi group A year and a half ago, Marci Reaven, the chief curator for exhibits that focus on social history at the New-York Historical Society, was given the challenge of developing the first show ever on New York’s role in World War II and life in the city during that time. The result, “WWII & NYC,” features 500 objects and photographs, 13 new films and extensive interactive-media elements that take up the entire museum. It opens Oct. 5. ¶ Ms. Reaven, 57, led a team of more than 50 staffers and contractors to put the show together. “You have such a big topic, and you have to figure out how to tell that story,” she said. “It can be frightening if you don’t have confidence, but that’s the fun part.” ¶ The curator’s favorite object that will be on display is the membership card that belonged to a Jewish librarian who infiltrated a Nazi group in New York as a spy. “The exhibit is filled with these stories of individuals who were worried about the frightening events around them,” she said. ¶ It will also feature radio broadcasts from that time and the story of the production of military training films—which were made in New York— among many other pieces. ¶ Before she discovered her passion for history, which led her to get a doctorate in the subject at NYU, Ms. Reaven was a documentary filmmaker. She decided to switch careers after working on a film with Bill Moyers for public television on the history of the automobile and Americans’ love affair with their cars. ¶ Though “WWII & NYC” has yet to open, Ms. Reaven is already hard at work on her next exhibit at the Historical Society. It is about how the federal Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 affected New York’s Chinese-American community. That show is slated to open in 2014. —miriam kreinin souccar See EXECUTIVE MOVES on Page 8 October 1, 2012 | Crain’s New York Business | 7 http://www.TheWeek.com

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