Corporate and agency tech PR veteran Erica Jacobs has landed at Abernathy MacGregor Group's San Francisco outpost as an executive VP for the New York-based firm.

erica jacobsJacobs did a four-year stint from 2008 to March 2013 at Symantec, holding roles including communications director for Norton president Janice Chaffin, and director of executive and internal communications.

She had recently been handling content development as a consultant for GE Software.

Jacobs worked on the agency side at Porter Novelli (SVP), FleishmanHillard, where she handled AbMac client Yahoo!, and Copithorne & Bellows in San Francisco. She also managed corporate communications during California utility giant PG&E's bankruptcy and reorganization in the early 2000s.

She started out as an aide to Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.).

Former Village Voice CEO David Schneiderman heads Havas-owned AbMac's San Francisco office.