Ben Finzel, senior VP and head of Widmeyer Communications’ public affairs practice in Washington, D.C., has moved to Waggener Edstrom in a similar role in the capital.
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Finzel heads the D.C. office as GM and leads the tech firm’s PA unit as senior VP.
WaggEd opened a D.C. outpost in 2004 under Torod Neptune, who left the firm in 2010 for a corporate post at Verizon.
Finzel left Widmeyer after more than three years working accounts like the American Gas Association and United Brotherhood of Carpenters.
Finzel’s longest PR tenure was with Fleishman-Hillard in D.C., where he spent nearly 10 years exiting for Widmeyer as a senior VP in 2009. He was previously a communications director for the U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Finzel started out in politics as a press secretary to Rep. Tim Valentine (D-N.C.) and moved into PR a few years later at Edelman in D.C.