Mercurio Stars in Motion Picture Assn.'s PR Push
Thu, Sep. 10, 2020
By Kevin McCauley
John Mercurio, a veteran of Burson-Marsteller, Purple Strategies and CNN, will join the Motion Picture Assn. on Sept. 28 as senior VP-corporate communications.
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John Mercurio, a veteran of Burson-Marsteller, Purple Strategies and CNN, will join the Motion Picture Assn. on Sept. 28 as senior VP-corporate communications.
Clarissa Beyah, who stepped down in April as VP-strategic communications at Northwestern Mutual, has signed on as chief communications officer at Union Pacific, the freight railroad that serves 23 states. (1 reader comment)
Hering Schuppener partner Gregoire Verdaux is heading to Philip Morris International, where he will take on the position of senior VP external affairs on Sept. 1.
Publicis Groupe has fired Tom Goodwin, who took the head of futures and insight post earlier this year, following his controversial tweets about the COVID-19 pandemic and exchanges with other ad people.
Melissa Kanter, who headed integrated communications for Philips Lighting in North America, has moved to ING Americas, financial services marketer.
Microsoft today announced it is closing its 83 retail stores, abandoning its plan to mimic Apple's successful strategy.
Ecolab, provider of sanitization and disinfection services, has hired WPP to promote how companies that use its services can position themselves as the gold standard of cleanliness as economies reopen in the post-COVID-19 era.
Andy Main, global chief at Deloitte Digital, will be the new CEO of Ogilvy, taking over for John Seifert, who announced his plan to step down in April.
Dan Turton, who was VP North American public policy at General Motors and an Obama White House alum, will join Tyson Foods on June 29 as senior VP, global government affairs.
Larry Kramer, the playwright and AIDS activist, died yesterday at age 84. He left his mark in two different worlds—the arts and healthcare. He changed me, too.
Kelli Parsons, senior VP & chief communications officer at United Technologies, is returning to Hill+Knowlton Strategies as global chair, corporate affairs on June 15.
Hill+Knowlton Strategies has aced a competitive pitch for DS Smith, London-based $7.5B global packaging giant.
AIG's Kenneth Juarez, a Burson-Marsteller and Abernathy MacGregor veteran, joins DWS Group, an asset management firm that was spun off by Deutsche Bank, as communications chief.
Altria Group announced today that CEO Howard Willard retired April 14 and was succeeded by vice chairman & CFO Billy Gifford. He is recovering from COVID-19.
Marissa Shorenstein is leaving AT&T to take over as chief communications officer at WeWork, effective March 26.
Dee Dee Myers, who served as Bill Clinton’s first press secretary, is leaving her post as executive vp of worldwide corporate communications and public affairs at Warner Bros.
The slightest misstep in today’s social-media-driven culture can push companies into crisis mode – issuing knee-jerk public apologies that can cheapen genuine expressions of contrition down the road.
Hill+Knowlton announced that Ed Patterson has joined the WPP unit as global head of communications.
Carnival Corp. has named Heidi Barker to the newly created position of VP- corporate communications in its ethics and compliance department. She will join the cruise line company in March.
Leslie Scott, who was American Airlines' senior manager for global communications, is moving to United Airlines.
Ogilvy has cut 80 staffers, which is about four percent of its workforce, following a “challenging second half of 2019 and a cautious outlook for year 2020,” according to a memo from CEO John Seifert. (1 reader comment)
Jim Prosser, a Twitter and Google veteran, has signed on at Edelman as managing director-corporate affairs & advisory services for the US western region.
McKinsey & Co. has named former Federal Communications Commission PR staffer Neil Grace head of media relations for North America. (1 reader comment)
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