Bud Grebey, executive VP at New York-based Maloney & Fox, has been named VP of corporate communications for titanium oxide producer Tronox.
The Oklahoma City-based company, which emerged from bankruptcy last February, has also added Joel Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Kathcher staffer David Silverman as corporate comms. manager. Both executives are based in Stamford, Conn.
Former VP of corporate affairs and Tronox spokesman Robert Gibney, who previously led IR and external affairs, shifted to the VP-administration and materials procurement slot last year.
Grebey heads media relations, CSR, employee comms., reputation management, social media and government affairs at Tronox, a top global producer of titanium dioxide, a key ingredient for paint, plastics and paper. He was New York GM for M&F parent Waggener Edstrom Worldwide and worked on the corporate side at Sikorsky Aircraft (VP/comms. and marketing), Siemens, Webvan.com and Levi Strauss.
Silverman was a senior A/E at Joele Frank after working on the Hill as a speechwriter and legislative aide to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.).
Tronox, spun off from Andarko Petroleum Corp.’s Kerr-McGee in 2005, had first quarter revenue of $433.6M on net income of $86.3M. It was the initial plaintiff in a $25B fraud suit against Anadarko in 2009, a suit since taken over by the U.S. Dept. of Justice. The trial started earlier this month.