Bill Hughes, chief communications officers at IT giant CA Technologies, the former Computer Associates, has moved to $4B mailing services provider Pitney Bowes in that same title.

bill hughesHughes reports to newly minted chief marketing officer Abby Kohnstamm at Stamford, Conn.-based PB and takes a seat on the company's executive management team. Kohnstamm joined in May.

Publicly traded Pitney Bowes posted 2012 revenue of $4.4B.

At CA, Hughes led internal and external communications, including media relations, sustainability, social media and government relations. He joined CA in 2006 from IMS Health, where he was VP of global comms. and public affairs.

Earlier, he was with IBM as corporate VP of media relations and head of comms. for the Asia Pacific region based in Tokyo.

On the agency front, Hughes was a GM for Burson-Marsteller in Los Angeles and senior VP/GM at Shandwick.

Sheryl Battles is VP, corporate comms., at Pitney Bowes. Carol Wallace handles external communications.