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Vanessa Yanez, who led FleishmanHillard's Americas tech practice, has moved to HP to head corporate communications for the tech giant.

Yanez was a senior VP and senior parnter at FH in San Francisco, leading its technology sector business in the Americas. She worked on Fitbit's IPO, as well as major campaigns for Visa and Avaya.

Her move is a return to HP, where she was a corporate PR manager and media relations chief in the mid-2000s. She also worked in-house at Sun Micrisystems and did agency stints at Axicom (senior VP) Ketchum.