Joe Hodas, who did a five-year stint as senior director of corporate communications/IR at Frontier Airlines, has taken the chief marketing officer slot at Dixie Elixirs and Edibles in Denver.
DE&E manufacturers a line of “triple lab tested” cannabis products including sparkling beverages, truffles, balms and soaps that are legally available to people in Colorado effective this year.
The company boasts of the first “infused products retail marijuana license.
Hodas served at Frontier through May 2008. He joined DE&E on Jan. 14.
Most recently, he was executive VP/channels at Vladimir Jones, which is the oldest independent integrated communications shop in the Rocky Mountain State.
Business leaders will face challenges in the upcoming year, some of which will come as a complete surprise, or beyond anyone's imagination.
Teneo has hired Philipp Grontzki, who is a 20-year veteran of corporate communications and financial journalism, as a managing director in its strategy and communications group.
Rowan Benecke, who co-founded Zeno Group and helmed Burson-Marsteller's tech practice, has joined McKinsey & Co as director of communications for North America.
BCW has named Golin's Matt Coldagelli EVP and leader of its corporate affairs practice in Chicago.
Abby Bailey, who headed corporate communications for Fedex in its Middle East, India and Africa region, has joined Teneo as managing director in Dubai.
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