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Amy Travieso is leaving the US Chamber of Commerce to join the American Hotel & Lodging Assn. as VP-government affairs responsible for regulatory/legislative affairs on technology, innovation and other policy matters.
USTelecom has named Jeremy Pederson, who was senior manager of federal affairs at Frontier Communications, VP-government affairs.
The Association for Applied Sport Psychology has named New York-based PR agency The Rosen Group agency of record.
Mark Olson, who opened a San Francisco outpost for Max Borges Agency in 2014, has moved to Lewis as a VP to oversee its PR practice in that city.
Vox Solid Communications has been named agency of record for the Las Vegas chapter of the Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International.
Magazine industry trade group MPA announced that Linda Thomas Brooks has been appointed its newest President and CEO.
Saxum has been named agency of record for Promotional Products Association International.
Matthew Beck, VP of strategic communications for Glover Park Group, has moved to the Investment Company Institute, the Washington trade group of mutual funds and other regulated funds, in a top PR role.
Epicomm is the new name of three printing/mailing trade groups that had employed Joseph Truncale, who joined PR Society of America Jan. 12 as CEO.
Ogilvy chairman and former global CEO Christopher Graves was elected chairman of the Council of PR Firms for 2015 and will take the reins from FleishmanHillard chief Dave Senay.
Patrick Riccards is now in charge of communications and strategy at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in Princeton, NJ.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, the Newton, Conn.-based trade group for firearms manufacturers, has brought in Jennifer Pearsall as director of PR.
Communications and public affairs chief for the cosmetics industry trade group the Personal Care Products Council takes the reins of the Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums, the Virginia-based global association for zoos and parks like SeaWorld and Six Flags Discovery Kingdom.
