FleishmanHillard has recruited Dave Schad for the senior VP/general manager slot at its Minneapolis-St. Paul outlet.
He's moving from the senior VP/executive director job at PadillaCRT in the city.
Schad replaces David Hakensen, GM since 2009, who will remain head of the office's corporate and media relations in his senior VP capacity.
Besides PadillaCRT, Schad was partner at VS Advertising, Group One, Carmichael Lunch and Bozell Kamstra.
Susan Veidt, serves as president of FH's central region, which includes Chicago, Detroit, Kansas City, St Louis and the Twin Cities.
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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