 Emily K. Graham |
FleishmanHillard has appointed Emily K. Graham, senior vice president and partner, to co-lead of its financial and professional services sector in the Americas. Graham joined the agency in 2017 to lead financial services market growth in New York. Before joining FleishmanHillard, she was group vice president, corporate communications at MWWPR and a public relations manager at Burson-Marsteller, leading efforts for such clients as U.S. Trust, Accenture, Southwest Airlines, Deloitte and Morgan Stanley. In her new role, Graham will partner with sector co-lead Tom Laughran, senior vice president and partner in the Chicago office, to further build and expand relationships with clients and prospects in financial services and professional services.
 Shaun Beaumont |
Manifest New York has added Shaun Beaumont and David Watsky to its team. Beaumont, who is joining the firm as vice president of brand, was previously creative director at integrated creative commnications agency ilk. He was also an early collaborator in the creation of Manifest London, the sister agency of Manifest New York. He will be tasked with scaling up the agency’s branding capabilities, as well as being responsible for the continued roll-out of its BrandManifesto process. Watsky, who will be MNY’s account director, comes to the agency from DKC, where he worked on such accounts as Champagne Bollinger and Grubhub. He has also worked for EVINS Communications. At MNY, Watsky’s remit includes helping bridge the gap between Manifest’s offices in London, Stockholm and New York.
 Alyssa Schmid |
NYC & Company has brought on Alyssa Schmid as director, communications—domestic and promoted Britt Hijkoop to director, communications—international. Schmid joins NYC & Company from Lou Hammond Group, where she worked for more than six years, most recently as a vice president. In that role, she supervised multiple travel and lifestyle accounts. Prior to Lou Hammond, she held positions at CityBuzz and Quinn. Hijkoop has been with NYC & Company since 2012, most recently as senior manager, international PR. She works with NYC & Company’s network of 16 international press representatives serving more than 25 global markets, assists in the execution of international press conferences and activations, and contributes to the organization’s travel, lifestyle and influencer media relations efforts globally.
 Dan Beltramo |
AirPR, which provides analytics, insights and measurement solutions for the PR industry, has named Dan Beltramo CEO. Beltramo comes to AirPR from Nielsen, where he served as executive vice president, product leadership—marketing effectiveness. Before that, he was co-founder and CEO of crowd-sourced market research platform Vizu. He also serves on the board of directors of cloud-based personalized video programming system IRIS.TV and market research platform Discuss.io. In his new role, Beltramo will apply his expertise in the TV ad space to PR analytics. AirPR has made several other additions to its executive team over the past several months, including Sean O’Neal, who has come on as president after serving as president of Adaptly; former Dell executive Judy Luk-Smit, who is now AirPR vice president of product; former Oracle Data Cloud executive Rogier de Haas, who serves as vp, sales; and former Adobe marketing analyst Doug Miller, who is managing the firm’s customer success program.
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