Brunswick Group said 30-year McKinsey & Company veteran Nick Lovegrove will join the firm in May as managing partner for the US.
The post oversees Brunswick's four offices here, including New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Dallas.
Lovegrove exits PA shop Albright StoneBridge Group. He left McKinsey as managing partner for Washington in 2012.
Brunswick CEO Susan Gilchrist said Lovegrove brings international management expertise and a "deep understanding of clients' needs."
The corporate communications titan is also assigning London partner Simon Sporborg as managing partner in the UK, while London office chief and senior partner Nick Claydon changes course to focus on integrating the firm's client work across Europe.
Clayton has counseled Unilever, Burberry, BP and McKinsey at Brunswick.
Brunswick has 22 offices in 13 countries.
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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