Peter Taback, VP of external affairs and communications for The New School, moved to Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health on Jan. 21 in its top communications post.
Taback, a PhD in English who taught at City College and New York University, takes the title of chief communications officer at Mailman, a 92-year-old institution renamed in 1999 after Joseph Mailman, an investor and philanthropist.
He earned public health credentials as VP of communications and marketing at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and director of communications for amfAR, the global non-profit focused on AIDS research. He moved to The New School in 2009.
He also worked media relations at NYU.
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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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