Kevin Sellers, an Intel alum and managing director of Sard Verbinnen & Co's San Francisco outpost, has moved to electronic components giant Avnet as VP of corporate marketing and communications.
Sellers leads corporate branding strategy, executive and employee comms., PR, social and digital for the publicly traded, Phoenix-based company with $27.5B in 2015 revenue.
He reports to SVP MaryAnn Miller, who said building the Fortune 500 company's brand is now of its "key enterprise strategies."
Prior to Sard, he was VP of creative services and digital marketing at Intel, where he spent more than a decade. He was also senior VP for medical device maker Unilife.
Paul Kranhold is managing director for Sard in San Francisco.
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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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