Jennifer Doidge, a senior communications exec for Visa, has moved to Blackberry as VP of corporate communications for the mobile device provider.
Blackberry communications chief Heidi Davidson said last week she is leaving the company.
Doidge spent more than nine years at San Francisco-based Visa, handling product and corporate communications. She is a former VP for FleishmanHillard in the Bay Area.
After a rocky few years, Blackberry is trying to recoup its once-influential share of the mobile phone market and grow its security business under CEO John Chen.
Adam Emery is VP of corporate comms. for Blackberry in New York. Doidge is based in Pleasanton, Calif.
Business leaders will face challenges in the upcoming year, some of which will come as a complete surprise, or beyond anyone's imagination.
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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