Roger Bolton, a veteran corporate communications and public affairs exec, has been tapped as president of the Arthur W. Page Society, following the exit of Julia Hood.
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Bolton, a trustee since 2006 and former chair of the group, retired as senior VP of communications for Aetna in 2006 and held PR posts at IBM and the U.S. Dept. of the Treasury under President George W. Bush, among others.
He takes up the post Dec. 5 at Page, the 28-year-old exclusive group of top communications execs mostly from the Fortune 500.
“Roger’s full-time stewardship will ensure that the advances that we have made at the Page Society during the past few years will continue, and that we will grow even stronger and more relevant,” Page chairman and FedEx communications senior VP Bill Margaritis wrote in a memo to members Nov. 15.
Hood is returning to publisher Haymarket to oversee PR Week and DM News on Nov. 21 after a year as Page’s first paid president.
The group, which held an extensive national search before hiring Hood, previously had executive directors, the most recent being Tom Nicholson, who held the post from 2007 to 2010. He is now at association manager SmithBucklin.