Jim Savage, who led Edelman's Dallas corporate practice, has moved to Pierpont Communications as senior VP and GM of the Houston-based firm's Dallas outpost.
He takes a post vacated in December by another Edelman alum, Teresa Henderson, who is now a SVP at Saxum.
Savage is a former VP of PA and corporate communications for the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and held senior corporate PR roles at Western Financial Group and Philips Electronics. He worked on the agency side at Reputation Leadership Group, where he was a managing partner before his recent stint at Edelman.
Pierpont, which also has outposts in San Antonio and Austin, saw revenues climb more than 10% to $6.4M in 2014 and has a strong base in the energy sector (BP, BHP Billiton) with clients in financial services, construction, healthcare and public sector, among others.
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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