 Karen Le Cannu |
Prosek Partners has appointed Karen Le Cannu as managing director. Le Cannu comes to the firm from HSBC, where she was head of external communications for global banking. Before that, she was a director at London-based strategic communications consultancy Powerscourt, leading its bank's team. She started her career as an analyst for the Bank of England. “Our global client base will benefit from Karen’s deep financial sector experience, creativity and high energy,” said Prosek managing partner Jennifer Prosek. Le Cannu will be based in London initially and will relocate to New York in early 2019.
 Chris Davies |
Hill+Knowlton Strategies has named Chris Davies executive creative director. Davies was previously with the agency from 2014 to 2016 as national creative director at H+K in Canada. He returns to H+K from Traffik, where he was executive creative director, overseeing the agency’s creative output for all clients. He has also held creative leadership roles at Bimm, Taxi and Sharpe Blackmore Euro RSCG (now Havas). In his new post, Davies will be in charge of H+K’s Canadian creative team. Headquartered in Toronto, H+K Strategies Canada has seven offices across the country.
 Glenn Gillen |
WGU North Carolina, part of the national nonprofit online Western Governors University, has hired Glenn Gillen as public relations manager. Gillen comes to WGU from S&A Communications, where he was senior account manager. He was previously public relations director at MarketSmart Advertising. While he will be based in the Research Triangle area, Gillen will direct public relations strategies and tactics for WGU across North Carolina. WGU, which officially launched in October 2017, has also hired Jason Caldwell and Cindy Garcia as strategic partnerships managers.
DGA Group has lined up the former US ambassadors to Qatar and Saudi Arabia as senior advisors to help clients navigate that politically complex region.
Eitan Bencuya, who has more than 20 years of technology PR experience, has signed on with Brunswick Group as a partner in its San Francisco office.
Greg Honan, who worked in the Biden White House as director of message planning and chief of staff for its office of communications, is joining public affairs firm Seven Letter as a managing director.
David Bassity, who was VP for football communications for the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons, will join the Big Ten Conference on July 20.
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