Pennsylvania-based energy sector PR shop Bravo Group has expanded to Texas with the addition of former Sunoco communications chief David Webster.
Webster has been running Aberdeen Strategies since stepping down from the VP of comms. and PA role at Sunoco (a Bravo client) in 2012 on its acquisition by Energy Transfer. He was previously VP of corporate comms. for Centex and held key PR posts at Regions Bank, JPMorgan Chase and Pennzoil.
Bravo president Topper Ray said Texas is a "natural step" for a firm that represents clients from exploration and production to midstream and end users in the energy sector. The firm, which has outposts in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg and Philadelphia, Pa., has reaped PR success from the Marcellus Shale energy boom in the Keystone State and represents the Pennsylvania Chemical Industry Council, among other clients like Dow, SWN, Sunoco Logistics, and Cabot Oil & Gas.
Weber takes a senior advisor role with Bravo and continues to run Aberdeen.
Gagnier Communications has hired Frontera Energy's Brent Anderson as managing director in Calgary, which is the capital of Canada’s energy sector.
Ogilvy Government Relations has signed on with St. Louis-based Peabody Energy, which is America’s top coal producer.
Steven Soper, a six-year veteran at ExxonMobil who ran its US state government relations practice, has joined FTI Consulting in Dallas.
Rachel Ryan, deputy head of corporate communications at Masdar, the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, is joining FTI Consulting in March.
Sarah Venuto, director of external affairs at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, will join Cornerstone Government Affairs on Feb. 1, 2023.
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