 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.
Steve Rice, who served as director of political mobilization for Boeing, joins DC-based bipartisan public affairs and strategic communications firm The Herald Group as SVP, overseeing its grasstops and 50-state field operations. 
Qorvis has named Victor Shiblie senior advisor to boost its international network and global business opportunities.
Pierre DuBois has taken the VP-public affairs post at AIB Data Centers, developer of the digital infrastructure for AI hosting and high-performance computing workloads.
Allison Worldwide names Victoria Brophy EVP, head of corporate and technology in Europe. Brophy comes to the firm from Golin Ketchum London, where as EVP she built and led the London Corporate Affairs practice... 
Signal Group, a DC-based public affairs firm, hires Josie Feron as director. Feron was most recently communications director for the Office of Congresswoman Deborah Ross (D-NC)... Moburst, a mobile-first digital agency driven by a proprietary AI program, appoints Etgar Shpivak as VP of marketing... Howard University hires Jasmine Gurley as senior director of public relations in the Office of University Communications.
