Heather Wilson, a Weber Shandwick and Ogilvy corporate PR pro, has moved to The Abernathy MacGregor Group's Los Angeles office as an executive VP.
Wilson spent the last year in Chicago for Weber Shandwick and earlier did a six-year stint in the firm's Los Angeles office. In between, she led Ogilvy PR's Chicago corporate and social media groups.
Abernathy vice chairman Ian Campbell, who founded the firm's West Coast offices, is based in Los Angeles. Jim Lucas is managing director in LA.
Wilson is a former paralegal who moved into journalism with CBS MarketWatch before jumping to PR with the LA law firm Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell.
TAMG is owned by Havas.
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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.
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