By Kevin McCauley
Republican lobbyist Chris Giblin has moved into the CEO slot at Ogilvy Government Relations as Drew Maloney takes an external affairs post at the Republican National Committee, where he will front the Romney campaign.
Giblin is a former aide to GOP Texas Congressmen John Carter and Jack Fields as well as Charlie Norward of Georgia. Prior to OGR, Maloney served as legislative director for Republican Majority Whip Tom DeLay.
OGR chairman Wayne Berman also has left the firm, shifting for a political post at client Blackstone. The former Commerce Dept. assistant secretary during the Bush I administration merged his Berman Enterprises with Ogilvy in 2004.
Senior VPs John O’Neill and Elena Tompkins are exiting the firm. O’Neill, one-time tax counsel to Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, is heading for Capitol Counsel, while Tompkins, a veteran of the George Bush II’s Labor Dept.’s Congressional and intergovernmental affairs, unit is launching her own firm.
The moves follows OGR’s loss of Chevron, one of its biggest accounts, earlier this month due to a “series material conflict of interest” uncovered at its sister firm, Ogilvy PR Worldwide.
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