Susan Stillings, an agency vet of Teneo, Brunswick Group and Edelman, among others, has been named chief marketing officer for online heavy equipment marketplace IronPlanet.
The Bay Area-based portal, backed by some of the top names in venture capital, annually brokers hundreds of millions of dollars in sales of used construction vehicles, government surplus vehicles and other heavy equipment.
Stillings has been an advisor to Prosek Partners for the past year after stints at Teneo and Brunswick (partner). She was an EVP in Edelman's global financial practice, managing director for Ogilvy PR's Asia Pacific financial unit, and MD for Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher.
IronPlanet acquired oilfield equipment auctioneers Kruse Energy in November and launched units focused on government surplus auctions (GovPlanet) and used equipment (allEquip) in the past year.
Backers of IP include Accell Partners, Klein Perkins Caufield & Byers, Volvo, Komatsu and Caterpillar.
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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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