Hotwire Names MacLaverty COO, EMEA and ANZ Pres.
Tue., Jun. 27, 2017
By Jon Gingerich
Alex MacLaverty has been named Hotwire chief operating officer, as well as president of the agency’s EMEA and ANZ offices.
Category: Personnel Appointments
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Alex MacLaverty has been named Hotwire chief operating officer, as well as president of the agency’s EMEA and ANZ offices.
Gary Goodfriend, who started DeFrancesco/Goodfriend PR in 1985 with John DeFrancesco, is retiring from LCWA at the end of the month.
Donald Trump has greatly diminished Brand USA and it's going to take one genius of a crisis manager to restore luster to the country's image. (2 reader comments)
Martin Sorrell's WPP holding company has been rocked by what is being called the "GoldenEye" virus, which has put its website out of commission.
Companies with women in the C-suite are more profitable than companies without them, according to a study by the Peterson Institute for Int’l Economics cited by Andi Simon, Ph.D.
Gina Woodworth is joining Snap Inc. as U.S. public policy director in DC, exiting her senior VP-public policy & government affairs slot at the Internet Assn.
rbb Communications president and co-founder Lisa Ross was named vice-chair, Americas, of PROI Worldwide.
An effective PR crisis manager is like a good basketball point guard who knows the playbook and is blessed with "court vision," writes James Haggerty in his new book, Chief Crisis Officer.
Catherine London, who has more than two decades of experience in the pharma and healthcare sectors, has joined biOasis Technologies as executive VP-corporate affairs and IR. She reports to CEO Mark Day.
Murray Energy Corp., which is waging a high-profile legal battle with HBO’s John Oliver, claims it received a flood of scabrous email messages, harassing phone calls and suffered the hacking of its website in the aftermath of the broadcast. (2 reader comments)
Netflix, which has spent heavily for its own programming, has hired Glover Park Group to build awareness of its original content on Capitol Hill.
A recent court case could have major implications for the PR concerns of brands and public personalities competing in the marketplace of ideas.
Charges are flying in France that government safety tests on cellphone radiation failed to check where phones are mostly carried—in pants and shirt pockets. Nine of ten phones exceed safe levels in those places. (2 reader comments)
Publicis CEO Arthur Sadoun, who officially took over for Maurice Levy on June 1, rocked the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity by announcing that the French combine will take a pass on next year's show. His action may save the show from itself. (1 reader comment)
London-based consumer agency Lexis has been integrated into global communications agency Text100.
The State Dept. has issued a "notice of funding opportunity" for a $2M campaign to "promote an open, interoperable, secure and reliable global Internet."
Trevelino/Keller has entered into a partnership with AirDog, a company that produces all-terrain, autonomous camera drones. More account news from Hemsworth Communications, Mardiks PR and Coyne Public Relations.
5W Public Relations is providing media support to the foundation of Donald Trump's son, Eric.
Jon Wentzel, who was a top executive at Burson-Marsteller and Ogilvy, joined the Nuclear Energy Institute this month as VP-communications.
If the FCC’s Mike O’Rielly is justified in his enthusiasm for Wi-Fi and other wireless transmissions, then 225 scientists are wrong. (3 reader comments)
AT&T ($3.3B in ads), Comcast ($3B), and Verizon ($2.5B) are blocking press coverage of the dangers of Wi-Fi and other forms of radiation, says Jerry Flynn, retired Canadian Army officer.
Reputation Partners has acquired Chicago-based marketing and brand development agency Words&Pictures, Inc.
Levick, which has represented the Embassy of Qatar, is now working for the nation’s communications office under a revamped six-month agreement pegged in the $375K range.
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