 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.
Actum has hired Cecelia Prewett, who was president of DC Public Affairs at SKDK during a nearly 13-year run, as senior managing director in its Washington office.
Franz Paasche, who was most recently EVP for public affairs and communications at Columbia University, will join Verizon as EVP, corporate affairs, effective Nov. 10.
Horizon Family Brands, which includes Horizon Organic and Wallaby Organic yogurt, hires Andrew Springate as CMO... Wake Tech, a Raleigh, NC community college that serves over 70000 adults annually, brings on Lisa Marie Ferrell, who previously led North America communications at Lenovo, as VP of communications and marketing... Golin brings on executive creative director Meg Farquhar in Chicago, and EVPs of strategy Tom Howells (Western Region) and Martin Coomber (New York).
Hotwire Global appoints Burson global chief digital & intelligence officer Grant Toups as global CEO, effective in January.
Bader Rutter, which works with clients in the agriculture, food, beverage and pet care sectors, appoints Demar Anderson as CMO... Acceleration Community of Companies appoints Michael Moschella to lead its new insights division, ACC Intelligence... Luminate, a London-based shop focused on infrastructure and energy sectors, hires Osman Dervish as director—head of development... The Alpine Group promotes Alison Graab to principal from SVP.
