Dale Petroskey, who headed the National Baseball Hall of Fame and led marketing for the Texas Rangers, has moved to Occidental Petroleum as VP of public affairs.
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Fleishman-Hillard veteran Richard Kline stepped down as VP of comms. and PA for the Los Angeles-based oil and gas giant after four years last year.
Petroskey, 56, has been running his Dallas-based consulting shop for the past two years.
He was president of the Baseball Hall of Fame for more than eight years – including through a minor PR crisis in 2003 – before taking an executive VP role with the Rangers.
Earlier, he worked PA and mission programs for the National Geographic Society and served in the Reagan administration as an assistant press secretary at the White House and assistant secretary for PA at the Dept. of Transportation.
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Melissa Schoeb, senior director, comms. and PA, was promoted to VP of corporate comms. She joined the company in 2007 after a stint as senior VP and senior partner at Fleishman-Hillard.