 Andrew Cross |
Walker Sands has promoted Andrew Cross from VP to senior VP of PR. Cross has been with Walker Sands since 2011. For the last year, he has overseen all strategy and growth for the agency’s PR group based in Chicago. He also serves as an ambassador for Walker Sands to independent PR agency network PROI Worldwide. Before coming to the agency, Cross worked with brands including American Express, Dish Network and Livestrong.com on developing strategic communications initiatives.
 Alison Chartan |
Signal Group has hired Alison Chartan as VP. Chartan joins Signal from Weber Shandwick, where she most recently served as vice president. Before that she was with Chandler Chicco Agency. Chartan has worked across the health care spectrum, with expertise in such areas as women’s health, cancer, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, food allergy/anaphylaxis and food insecurity. At Signal, she provides strategic communications support for health care organizations in advocacy engagement, social content development, public affairs, digital and earned media strategy, education and programming.
 Viviana Millan |
Hill+Knowlton Strategies has brought on Viviana Millan and Mireia Sáenz de Buruaga Saelices as managers on its corporate and crisis team. Millan, who will work out of the firm’s Madrid office, comes to H+K from Havas, where she was a senior PR account exec. She previously worked at Ogilvy Public Relations and served as government affairs and market access specialist at pharmaceutical firm Sandoz. Sáenz will be based in H+K’s Barcelona office. She has developed strategic communication plans for such clients as Honda Motor Europe España, Sanofi and the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation. The pair will head up the corporate and crisis team in H+K Spain, working across sectors to provide advice and offer strategic counsel.
Veteran tech writer and editor Meakin Armstrong is coming on board at San Francisco's Bospar, building upon the agency's proprietary generative engine optimization platform Audit*E.
WPP Production hires John Paulson as managing director, New York. Paulson previously served as global president of Deluxe Entertainment... CORE IR, which provides investor relations, public relations and digital communications for healthcare companies, brings on Bruce Voss as managing director, investor relations... Carve Communications appoints Julie Stern as VP. Stern was most recently EVP at Brillant PR & Marketing... Seismic, which provides AI-powered enablement options for revenue teams, names Rob Pinkerton as CMO. Pinkerton joins the company from Oracle.
Mike Doyle, who did a five-year stint as CEO of Ketchum, has joined Brunswick Group in New York as a partner.
Mission North names Danny Maiello as the agency’s first chief corporate affairs officer. He's a veteran of Highwire, Dentsu, BCW Global, PwC, FleishmanHillard and CNN... DCI brings on Dan Savickas as a director on its strategic alliances team... Reputation Advisors International adds Sharon Koh, founder of Singapore-based boutique advisory firm The Brand Imprint, as its newest member.
The National Association of Corporate Directors has named Brunswick Group veteran Mohamed Younis senior VP of content.
