Olga FlemingOlga Fleming

Olga Fleming, executive vice president of Cohn & Wolfe Group subsidiary Y&R PR, has been promoted to the role of chief executive officer.

Fleming has held the executive VP title since Y&R’s inception in 2013. She was previously executive VP and managing director of Cohn & Wolfe’s New York healthcare practice. Prior to that, she was a senior counselor at Chandler Chicco’s Biosector 2 unit and a senior VP at Fleishman-Hillard’s CPR Worldwide, where she managed NY and London teams. Earlier in her career, she was a VP at Weber Shandwick.

Fleming will be based in New York and will continue reporting to C&W CEO Donna Imperato.