Los Angeles-based PR and public affairs firm Vectis Strategies has named former LA Times and LA Business Journal reporter Cale Ottens associate partner.
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Ottens joins Vectis from the Los Angeles Business Journal, where he was a commercial real estate reporter and also covered LA's legal industry. Prior to joining that weekly newspaper in 2014, he was a business reporter for Hearst property the Midland Reporter-Telegram and reported on commercial real estate for the Los Angeles Times. He has also written for the Arizona Republic and the Phoenix Business Journal.
At Vectis, Ottens will help shape the firm’s media relations and public relations practice. He will be based in Vectis' Los Angeles headquarters.
Vectis was formed in 2013 by former congressman Tony Coelho (D-CA), who was Democratic Whip, and Rep. Ron Packard (R-CA), who chaired the appropriations committee on energy and water. The firm, which specializes in real estate, finance, technology, infrastructure and education, holds additional offices in Sacramento, San Diego and Washington, D.C.
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