Ketchum’s O’Brien Takes 5WPR Helm
Mon., May 13, 2024
By Kevin McCauley
Michael O’Brien, Ketchum’s president & global chief strategy officer, has joined 5WPR as global CEO.
Michael O’Brien, Ketchum’s president & global chief strategy officer, has joined 5WPR as global CEO.
Chris Brathwaite, who was senior VP & chief communications officer at Tenneco, has moved to American Electric Power as VP & CCO.
In tech public relations and beyond, we must remember to put people front and center.
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In the early 1960s New York was in the midst of an egyptology craze. And I came up with an idea to get my client, the popular news radio station WINS 1010, on the everything-Egyptian radar screen.
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