Heather Rosenker, senior VP for Levick Strategic Communications and a former Bush administration public affairs pro, is moving to General Motors in D.C. to direct public policy and government relations communications.
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GM is emerging from a controversial taxpayer bailout and bankruptcy in 2008-09 and posted 2011 revenue growth of 11 percent to $7.6B, although the rescue of the company will likely be debated in the 2012 presidential campaign.
Selim Bingol, a Fleishman-Hillard alum like Rosenker and former communications chief at AT&T, an F-H client, heads global communications at GM. [Ex-AT&T chief Ed Whitacre leads GM.]
Public Strategies Inc. vet Bob Ferguson heads GM’s public policy operation as VP in D.C.
Rosenker, who starts at GM on May 1, was previously a senior VP in eight years at Fleishman-Hillard, joining in 2003 after co-directing the media relations operation at the creation and early life of the Dept. of Homeland Security.
Earlier stints included the Transportation Security Administration (assist. dir. of comms. and PA), Internal Revenue Service (dir., comms.), and in the first Bush administration, executive director of the President’s Environment and Conservation Challenge Awards.
She was also VP for the Professional Services Council and a VP at Slack Barshinger.