 Bryan DeAngelis |
Hamilton Place Strategies has hired Bryan DeAngelis as a managing director and Stephanie Walstrom as a director. DeAngelis comes to HPS from Kivvit, where he most recently served as senior director. From 2008 to 2011, he was communications director for Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT). At HPS he will serve as a principal, working on issue management campaigns, corporate reputation and crisis communications. Walstrom was previously global marketing director at advocacy nonprofit ONE Campaign. Before that, she was at Fund Development Corporation, where she managed public affairs and fundraising campaigns for nonprofit brands.
 Cary Cox |
French/West/Vaughan has brought on Cary Cox as vice president. Cox comes to the agency from Cox Marketing Group, a firm she led for 19 years. From 2013 to 2017, she was an assistant secretary for marketing and communications for the NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, overseeing marketing for natural, cultural, tourism and historic destinations. FWV has also hired Heather Scatamacchia as Vice President – Finance and Kerry Branon as group account director for FWV Fetching, the agency’s pet and veterinary marketing division. Scatamacchia was previously senior accounting manager at MedThink, a marketing agency serving healthcare and pharmaceutical clients. Branon joins FWV from the International Fund for Animal Welfare, where she most recently served as communications manager/acting director.
 Connie Ludwin |
Taft Communications has promoted Connie Ludwin to vice president. Ludwin has been with Taft since 2013, most recently serving as senior director, working to manage several key client accounts and direct human resources and account operations. Before coming to Taft, she was CEO for Boys & Girls Clubs in New Jersey. Taft president Ted Deutsch said that Ludwin “has played a leading role in our account management, HR and ongoing growth, helping Taft solidify its position as one of the leading New Jersey-based communications firms serving companies, nonprofits, foundations and public agencies.”
Codeword brings on Melody Brue and Jess Graham as part of a push to bolster its capabilities in market intelligence and commercial strategy... Havas Edge, which specializes in data-driven media, creative and customer acquisition strategies, for health, tech, consumer, retail and financial brands, promotes Pam Caputo to EVP, health media... Rezolve Ai, the London-based developer of Brain Suite, an enterprise AI platform purpose-built for agentic commerce, appoints Michele Fisher as CMO.
Brittany Sullivan, who held the senior VP-executive director of marketing post at Golin, has moved to Burson.
Jamie Dowd, who was most recently president of the health practice in the Americas at Weber Shandwick, comes on board at Allison Worldwide as global president, health + wellness, effective June 22.
Burson is bringing on Hanover managing director, Middle East Jonty Summers as head of corporate affairs in Dubai at the end of June... Ridgepost Capital, which had over $45 billion in assets under management as of March 31, names Brian McKenna VP, investor relations, effective June 15... The Center for AI Safety appoints Rochelle Nadhiri as head of public engagement. 
Kieran Mahoney, who founded Mercury Public Affairs more than 27 years ago, has stepped down as CEO and assumed the executive chairman post.
