LEAD: James W. Hood will become the president and chief executive of Young & Rubicam Ventures, a new marketing consulting and investment banking subsidiary.

Its affiliates cover various business areas: promotional services & staff support, marketing consulting, business consulting, business process outsourcing, market research, event management and mystery shopping.

According to its website, Projectline provides marketing consulting and project management to global high tech firms.

They specialize in product validation programs, customer advisory boards, customer testimonials, customer reference programs, marketing operations, business intelligence, and strategic marketing consulting.

Two-thirds of children between the ages of 6 and 11 now live in households with working parents, according to Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, a marketing consulting and research firm in Westport, Conn.

Ms. Levenberg, who is keeping her name, was until March a marketing manager for Amazon.com in Seattle and now does marketing consulting.

As her firm began to incorporate public relations and marketing consulting, she branded it Allison Dawn Public Relations.

The agency was enjoying considerable success on a worldwide basis at the time and, when there was a change in ownership, he considered starting his own business in marketing consulting.

But Regis has switched its focus to marketing consulting and last month, Apple announced that its two top public relations executives, Barbara Krause and Betty Taylor, were leaving.

Since 2009, the company has also been operating as an ad agency alternative providing creative marketing consulting and commercial production.