Selim Bingol, who rolled out of General Motors earlier this year amid the ongoing recall crisis, has landed at $50B electric power giant Duke Energy, where he will take the chief communications officer slot early next year.
He takes the Duke slot following last year's exit of Ginny Mackin for Ingersoll Rand.
Bingol, a corporate and agency PR pro, was ousted as senior VP of global communications and public policy for GM in April amid a series of changes at the automaker. He led communications through GM's $20B IPO in 2010 after following his former AT&T boss Ed Whitacre to the bankrupt automaker.
The 54-year-old Bingol was SVP of corporate comms. at AT&T before GM and did stints at FleishmanHillard/DC and on the Hill.
He joins Charlotte-based Duke Energy on Jan. 5 in the top comms. slot overseeing internal and external communications, including media relations, brand management and digital.
Duke counts 7.2M US customers for its electric and natural gas services. Operating revenues for 2013 were $24.6B.
Tony Cervone joined GM in May from Volkswagen to head global comms.
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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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