 Catherine Doyle |
PAN Communications has hired Catherine Doyle as vice president and co-lead of the firm’s leadership team in San Francisco. Doyle joins PAN from LEWIS, where she served as vice president, with responsibility for strategy, messaging and positioning for clients in the telecom, security, mobile and marketing tech industries. Before that, she was a senior account executive at Loomis Group. At PAN, Doyle will support PAN’s San Francisco office in targeting late-stage tech companies. She will focus on building the agency’s technology portfolio in the Bay Area and fostering employee growth.
 Alexandra Lazorchak |
APCO Worldwide has hired Alexandra Lazorchak as senior strategy, health strategy, based in New York. Lazorchak was previously at the firm from 2012 to 2015, serving as vice president, health care. Most recently, she was senior vice president, health care at Weber Shandwick. Before that, she was team leader at Biosector 2. “Alex’s insights from her more than ten years of experience helping health care and pharmaceutical companies craft messages and safeguard their reputations will be invaluable to our current and future clients,” said APCO executive director Eliot Hoff. “We’re delighted to welcome her back to APCO.”
 Nicole Fry |
rbb Communications has brought on three new team members and promoted three current employees. Nicole Fry joins the firm from 5W Public Relations as a senior account executive. Kristine Janata and George Protopapadakis are being brought on as assistant account executives. Janata will work with clients in the real estate and travel sectors, while Protopapadakis works with clients across real estate, professional services, and higher education. In addition, Luisa Yen is being promoted to account manager, and Hannah Bursack and Victoria Gomez have been moved up to account executive positions.
Cisco is bringing on Microsoft VP of communications and chief storyteller Steve Clayton as chief communications officer, effective Jan. 5.... IG Global PR, which specializes in the consumer technology, design-build, and AV markets, names Katharine “Kat” Wheeler partner and strategic director... Integer Technologies, a defense technology and software company, hires Paul Frommelt as VP of marketing and communications. 
Netflix has hired Instacart’s Dani Dudeck as chief communications officer, effective Jan. 12. She also handled communications at Zynga and MySpace.
Deborah Sierchio, who was at Coyne PR for over two decades, has moved to Krupp, where she is taking on the role of EVP, managing director.
Bastion appoints Jody Sowa as managing director, PR in the US, strengthening the company’s growing presence in Los Angeles and New York... The Davis Companies, a Boston-based real estate developer, appoints Andrea Simpson as EVP of creative, brand and communications... CBIZ, a professional services advisor, appoints Christopher Sikora as VP, investor relations and corporate finance.
Nick Clegg, who was global affairs president at Meta in a seven-year run, has joined London's Hiro Capital investment firm as a general partner.
