 Amanda Foley |
PR Boutiques International has voted in a new executive committee and board of directors. The officers have all been elected to one-year terms. The executive committee now includes president Amanda Foley from Kiterocket, vice president Lynette Werning from Blue Water Communications, treasurer Pawel Osowski from Warsaw Consultants, secretary Cheryl Bame from Bame PR, members-at-large Paul Furiga from WordWrite Communications and Lee Weinstein from Weinstein PR and ex officio member Kai vom Hoff from vom Hoff Communications. The new members of the board of directors are Julia Labaton (RED PR), Jessica Nunez (TruePoint Communications), David Eichler (Decibel Blue), Vivian Li (Geni-Plus PR Consulting), Tarunjeet Rattan (Nucleus PR), Viviane Roy (VROY Communications) and Juris Petersons (Jazz Communications). PROI’s next annual conference will be held from June 4-7, 2019 at the Viceroy Santa Monica in Santa Monica, CA.
 John Weston |
Independent cancer research and treatment center City of Hope has appointed John Weston as senior vice president and chief marketing and communications officer. He will also be a member of City of Hope’s Enterprise Leadership Team. Before coming to City of Hope, Weston was managing director at Fulcrum 2020, a cancer research investment company, where he created initiatives to promote and monetize cancer research science. Prior to that, he was executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, where he launched and expanded major strategic philanthropic relationships with iHeart, Clear Channel Communications, Credit Suisse and Major League Baseball.
 Bre Stephens |
Havas PR has promoted Bre Stephens to senior account executive. Stephens joined Havas in August 2015 and has worked with such clients as Covestro, Bayer AG and MilliporeSigma. She received the 2018 Rising Star Renaissance Award from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Pittsburgh chapter. The agency has also promoted Jacob Gnieski to assistant account executive. Gnieski joined the firm in October 2017, and has worked as part of the LivaNova client team.
Brittany Sullivan, who held the senior VP-executive director of marketing post at Golin, has moved to Burson.
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.
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.
