Karen Le Cannu
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
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
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.