Triple Hey: As tipped last month (Hot Air 12/29), Columbia southwest regional Brooke Meris will join Triple 8 Management in the newly created role of Dir./Radio Tour Marketing Feb. 1. Meris has been with Columbia for more than three years (CAT 10/8/12) following 15 years in radio including a stop at KILT/Houston. Reach her here. No word on plans for her position at Columbia. Concurrently, I.M.P., Inc. Dir./Promotions & Advertising Renee Schapiro has joined as Dir./Tour Marketing. She succeeds Haley Elander, who moves to the company's Lifestyle Marketing team. Schapiro's eight year career with I.M.P. follows stops in Maryland with Merriweather Post Pavilion,  Virgin Mobile Festival and Lyric Opera House. Reach her here. Triple 8 now has 30 employees across its Austin and Nashville offices.