Havas PR hosted Andrew Yang, CEO/founder of Venture for America, at a breakfast in its New York office on Feb. 6.
VfA, which places college grads in start-ups has earned press in Techcrunch, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Fox News and New York Times.
Havas PR chief Marian Salzman serves on VfA’s advisory board. She said her goal is to provide “talented young entrepreneurs a field where they can run faster and freer.”
Mike Cunningham and Giuseppe Crosti, VfA fellows, run her firm’s Social Providence unit, a social media consultancy.
Yang has just published “Smart People Should Build Things: How to Restore Our Culture of Achievement, Build a Plath for Entrepreneurs and Create New Jobs in America.”
Arianna Huffington calls it a “road map for young people for designing their careers, a playbook for policy makers for rebuilding our cities and a path toward moving entrepreneurship back to the center of the American economy.”
Yang once ran Manhattan GMAT, the test preparation firm that was acquired by Kaplan in 2009.
DJE Holdings, parent of Edelman and Zeno, launches RUTH as an independent shop named after Ruth Edelman, mental health advocate, wife and longtime business partner of Dan Edelman.
New York City PR firms make up the largest slice of O'Dwyer's 147 firm overall ranking with 33 of 40 in the New York/New Jersey area either calling Manhattan their home or having a presence there.
Subject Matter+Kivvit, which joined forces in May, has rebranded as Avoq, an integrated shop with more than 200 professionals in Washington, New York, Asbury Park (NJ), Miami and Chicago.
While PR pros stationed at in-house comms. teams and those working for agencies share many of the same objectives, they also have markedly different top priorities, according to a recent report.
Edelman is cutting 240 employees or about four percent of its workforce to cope with the cooling down of the PR sector, according to a memo from CEO Richard Edelman.
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