Boonshaft
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Hope Boonshaft, who once led Sony Pictures Entertainments
worldwide government relations/corporate communications
unit, has joined Hill & Knowlton as general manager
of its Los Angeles and Irvine offices. The post had been
vacant.
She joins from the Los Angeles Opera, where she was in
charge of marketing, PR, community relations and outreach.
Earlier she founded Boonshaft-Lewis & Savitch PR/PA,
a firm that counted Virgin Atlantic Airlines, Pitney Bowles,
Four Seasons Hotels, HBO and World Cup as clients.
Boonshaft served in the Carter White House as director
of community relations.
At H&K, she reports to CEO Paul Taaffe. H&Ks
COO Gene Reineke had been overseeing the southern California
offices.
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