mario ruizMario Ruiz, former top PR strategist for The Huffington Post, has moved to Business Insider as senior VP of communications.

Ruiz has been running his own New York-based shop since leaving the HuffPost in 2012. He was previously a VP for media relations at DKC.

BI CEO Henry Blodget said Ruiz advised the company "during a pivotal period when we were growing especially rapidly" and called Ruiz "an exceptional corporate communications and media professional."

New York-based BI was founded in 2008 by ex-DoubleClick CEO Kevin Ryan. Germany's Axel Springer bought an 88% stake in September 2015.