Bill Chandler, former top communications executive for retailer Gap Inc., has landed at Western Union as senior VP and chief communications officer.
He takes a role vacated last year by Luella Chavez D'Angelo, who is now a vice chancellor at the University of Colorado Denver.
Chandler leads the publicly traded, Denver-based payment services giant's global communications organization and serves as its top spokesman.
The 52-year-old Chandler, has been consulting for the past year since leaving Gap in 2015, where she served the clothing retailer for 11 years in San Francisco.
He was previously VP of communications for Charles Schwab and DIRECTV Broadband, and worked on the political side for seven years as state and communications director for Sen. Diane Feinstein (D.-Calif.).
At Western Union, he reports to executive VP, chief strategy and product officer Elizabeth Chambers.
WU posted 2015 revenue of $5.5B.
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