 Kate Holgate |
Brunswick Group has appointed Kate Holgate, formerly office head in Singapore, to lead its Hong Kong office. Will Carnwath will succeed her as office head in Singapore. Holgate, who joined Brunswick in 2000, worked in Brunswick’s London office as head of its global property and professional services sector teams before setting up the Singapore office in 2013. She was previously at investment bank Kleinwort Benson, where she worked on M&A and capital market transactions. Carnwath has been with Brunswick since 2009. Before moving to Singapore to help establish the office in 2013, he spent three years as chief of staff to Brunswick chairman Alan Parker. He co-leads Brunswick’s business and society offer for Asia and much of his work focuses on crisis, corporate reputation and investor relations.
 Armin Molavi |
Hilton has named Armin Molavi vice president of global media strategy and execution. Molavi has served as North America head of strategy for Havas Media Group and senior vice president, director of media and brand planning at One to One Interactive. In his new role, Molavi will lead the ongoing transformation of Hilton’s media team and work with partners across the globe to build out the company’s media center of excellence. He will be based at Hilton’s global headquarters in McLean, Va.
 Ian Edwards |
IMG Fashion has named Ian Edwards senior director of communications. Edwards comes to IMG from Alexander Wang, where he had served as director of public relations since 2015. Before that, he was an account executive at Shadow. IMG Fashion is part of William Morris Endeavor, the talent agency led by Patrick Whitesell and Ari Emanuel.
Ramiro Prudencio, who did a more than 25 year stint at Burson and its predecessor firms, has joined Brunswick Group as a partner in London.
Amy Edgy has joined Teneo as senior managing director and head of restructuring communications in its PR unit.
GCI Health brings on Eric Helgesen, who led digital transition and enterprise platform development at Weber Shandwick, as EVP, head of AI and innovation... Stanton Communications appoints Je’Coven Norwood as account director and Rida Dhanani as an account executive... Netflix hires the Walt Disney Company’s Naomi Bulochnikov-Paul as VP of television series communications... Abry Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm, names Yusef Kassim as head of capital strategy and investor relations.
Former Racepoint Global president Bob Osmond has moved to Clarity Global, where he will be managing partner, North America.
Jennifer Bett Communications names Kara Kamenec VP of affiliate and influencer marketing... Mark Allen & Co. brings on Isaac Benjamin as VP and Stacey Richman as account director, both based in the firm’s New York office... Mark43, a cloud-native public safety operations platform, appoints Alison Durant as CMO.
