Bright Impact, an Atlanta-based B2B marketing and design firm specializing in technology, manufacturing and healthcare verticals, has hired Leigh Mitchell as Account Director.

Mitchell will report to Judy Fergusson, President and CEO, and will lead the account management department, which continues to grow due to increasing projects from current clients such as ChoicePoint, TSYS, Per-Se Technologies, Superior Essex and Recall Corporation, as well as assignments from new clients such as Georgia Pacific's Business Papers Division.

Mitchell has over ten years experience in marketing and advertising, both on and offline,from the corporate side with companies such as Russell Corporation, Kaplan and Virtual Wellness Network and the agency side with Fahlgren/Creative Foundry and Fletcher Martin Ewing, where she served most recently as account supervisor. There, she led multiple accounts including Piccadilly Cafeterias, Reed Construction Data and Georgia State University's Robinson College of Business.