 C.L. Conroy |
Public Relations Global Network elected C.L. Conroy president at its bi-annual meeting in Toronto. Conroy is president and CEO of Miami, Florida-based The Conroy Martinez Group. Christina Rytter, managing director and founder of Copenhagen, Denmark-based Scandinavian Communications, assumes the role of immediate past president and chair of the advisory board. Other officers named include: president-elect Aaron Blank, president/CEO of Seattle-based The Fearey Group; secretary Leeza Hoyt, president of Los Angeles-based The Hoyt Organization; and Sean Dowdall, general manager and chief marketing officer of San Francisco-based Landis Communications, Inc., who will serve as treasurer. PRGN’s three-day meeting also included break-out sessions on the #metoo movement, promoting news literacy in the age of fake news and creating a safe workplace for employees.
 Matt Kellogg |
HSBC has appointed Matt Kellogg senior vice president, public affairs, based in Washington, D.C. Kellogg joins HSBC after serving at the U.S. Treasury as deputy assistant secretary, banking and finance, office of legislative affairs. Previously, he was senior policy advisor and counsel to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), general counsel at the Independent Petroleum Association of America and legislative assistant to Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY). At HSBC, he will be responsible for coordinating prudential bank regulatory activity in the United States as part of HSBC’s global public policy and government relations team, and will advocate on behalf of HSBC with policy makers and elected officials.
 Daphne Wang |
Bully Pulpit Interactive has hired Daphne Wang to help manage the firm’s corporate communication capabilities as well as oversee clients and accounts in corporate reputation and public affairs. Wang comes to BPI from APCO Worldwide where she was senior director and head of key clients, leading large-scale, integrated global communications and corporate reputation programs for such clients as BlackBerry, GE, Mars, McCormick, the Near East Foundation, PepsiCo, RISE and Suntory. Before that, she managed communications and media campaigns for public affairs and consumer goods clients at Rogers Finn Partners.
Codeword brings on Melody Brue and Jess Graham as part of a push to bolster its capabilities in market intelligence and commercial strategy... Havas Edge, which specializes in data-driven media, creative and customer acquisition strategies, for health, tech, consumer, retail and financial brands, promotes Pam Caputo to EVP, health media... Rezolve Ai, the London-based developer of Brain Suite, an enterprise AI platform purpose-built for agentic commerce, appoints Michele Fisher as CMO.
Brittany Sullivan, who held the senior VP-executive director of marketing post at Golin, has moved to Burson.
Jamie Dowd, who was most recently president of the health practice in the Americas at Weber Shandwick, comes on board at Allison Worldwide as global president, health + wellness, effective June 22.
Burson is bringing on Hanover managing director, Middle East Jonty Summers as head of corporate affairs in Dubai at the end of June... Ridgepost Capital, which had over $45 billion in assets under management as of March 31, names Brian McKenna VP, investor relations, effective June 15... The Center for AI Safety appoints Rochelle Nadhiri as head of public engagement. 
Kieran Mahoney, who founded Mercury Public Affairs more than 27 years ago, has stepped down as CEO and assumed the executive chairman post.
