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| Rebecca Kral |
Longacre Square Partners appoints Rebecca Kral as its first chief operating officer, effective April 15. Kral, a partner at the firm, has served as head of its Dallas office. Before joining Longacre in 2022, she was a director at Brunswick Group and a VP at Edelman and DF King & Co. She will continue to advise clients while taking on the COO role, which will involve overseeing human capital management, marketing and new business, tech and infrastructure, and other special projects. Longacre is also promoting Scott Deveau and Kate Sylvester to partner. Deveau, who has served at the agency as managing director, was previously a reporter at Bloomberg. Before joining Longacre as a managing director, Sylvester was an SVP at Sloane & Company, and worked at Prosek Partners and Edelman.
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| Gabriella Bock |
Channel V Media hires Gabriella Bock as director of content. Bock joins the communications strategy and PR firm from RETHINK Retail, overseeing the development and growth of the company’s earned editorial and paid media departments. In her new post, she will spearhead the expansion of CVM’s content marketing practice, as well as leading its website development and social media practices. “Gabriella is not only skilled at pinpointing fresh opportunities for clients, she excels at transforming existing content into new multi-media formats,” said Channel V Media EVP Kieran Powell. “She also has a sophisticated understanding of how to grow and develop audiences.”
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| Jack Murphy |
Brands2Life, which works with tech clients, appoints Jack Murphy as VP in the agency’s New York City office. Murphy joins Brands2Life from ICR where he served as VP in the agency’s tech group and provided IPO consultation and communications implementation for a variety of successful IPOs, including Dynatrace, Marqueta and Zoom. He will be part of Brands2Life’s IPO readiness offering, which provides services including strategic messaging alignment, category thought-leadership, executive media training, stakeholder communications and investor relations. “His addition to the team means that more Brands2Life clients will be able to benefit from a communications partner that has been through the IPO process many times before,” said Brands2Life managing director Rene Musech, who leads its IPO readiness unit.
The Levinson Group has hired Christina Pryor and Carla Amundaray-Gadea as senior directors in Washington and New York. 
Dentons Global Advisors has added Raphaël Delli to its European Union PA practice, leading its financial services offering.
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