 Terry Neal |
BCW has added Terry Neal and James Cook as executive VPs/managing directors in its public affairs and technology practices, respectively.
Neal, who had been running his own shop, did time at Podesta Group, Fannie Mae, CGI Federal, Light Squared and Hill+Knowlton Strategies.
He also held reporter, columnist and editor jobs at the Washington Post, Miami Herald and Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.
Cook joins from Edelman, where he led its Revere NY in-house tech boutique and guided the No.1 independent firm's Big Apple artificial intelligence center of excellence.
Earlier, he ran Edelman’s tech practices in Beijing and Singapore and big jobs at MSL and Weber Shandwick.
Neal works in DC and Cook is stationed in New York.
DJE Holdings, parent of Edelman and Zeno, launches RUTH as an independent shop named after Ruth Edelman, mental health advocate, wife and longtime business partner of Dan Edelman.
New York City PR firms make up the largest slice of O'Dwyer's 147 firm overall ranking with 33 of 40 in the New York/New Jersey area either calling Manhattan their home or having a presence there.
Subject Matter+Kivvit, which joined forces in May, has rebranded as Avoq, an integrated shop with more than 200 professionals in Washington, New York, Asbury Park (NJ), Miami and Chicago.
While PR pros stationed at in-house comms. teams and those working for agencies share many of the same objectives, they also have markedly different top priorities, according to a recent report.
Edelman is cutting 240 employees or about four percent of its workforce to cope with the cooling down of the PR sector, according to a memo from CEO Richard Edelman.
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