Nancy Elder, a corporate veteran of Marsh & McLennan, Time Warner and GE, has landed at JetBlue Airways as VP of communications.
Elder takes over a post left by Jenny Dervin in May. She reports to airline president Robin Hayes and oversees all communications, including internal, media and crisis.
Elder recently led strategy for the past three-plus years for Matter Unlimited, a sustainability and CSR communications shop she co-founded, with clients like Wind Energy Corp. and the Clinton Global Initiative.
She was chief marketing officer at Marsh, VP of integrated comms. at Time Warner, director of corporate comms. for GE, and VP of global business planning and comms. at MasterCard after agency stints at MSLGroup and Cohn & Wolfe.
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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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