Passport Has New Marketing VP

* Passport New Media, which offers filtered Internet content for children, has named Kim Hatamiya senior vice president of marketing for its Your Own World division. The Los Angeles-based company claims the unit, known as YOW, will be the first “virtual Internet” experience for children ages 2 through 12 when it’s launched later this year.

Hatamiya, who previously worked at Fox Kids Worldwide, will be responsible for creating and implementing the YOW brand and its launch. The company also named Peter Auerbach as vice president of advertising sales.

* Payden & Rygel, a Los Angeles-based independent money manager, has named Colleen Ambrose a vice president and senior portfolio manager. She previously was a portfolio manager at Harris Investment Management in Chicago.

* Peter Doctors has been named a senior supervising engineer in the Santa Barbara office of Parsons Brinckerhoff, and international engineering and construction management company. Doctors, a specialist in the design of traffic roundabouts, had been co-owner of the firm Ourston & Doctors.