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| Laura Nichols |
Snap Inc. has hired Laura Nichols, former executive VP and chief communications officer at National Geographic Partners, as VP of communications, according to a report on Axios. Nichols is the first key hire made by Snap's chief communications officer Julie Henderson since she joined the company late last year. Before coming to National Geographic, Nichols was executive vice president, global communications at the Motion Picture Association of America and also spent eight years as senior advisor and director of communications for former House leader Richard Gephardt. Nichols will be based in Washington D.C. and will lead communications around Snap’s global policy, social impact and its content arm, Discover.
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| Leah C. Johnson |
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has appointed Leah C. Johnson as chief communications and marketing officer. Johnson comes to Lincoln Center from leading LCJ Solutions, a strategic communications consulting practice she founded in 2009. She was previously senior vice president, global corporate affairs at Citibank; vice president of corporate communications at Standard & Poor’s; and director of communications for New York City comptroller Alan Hevesi. In her newly created position at Lincoln Center, Johnson will unite all of the organization’s strategic communications and marketing functions. "Throughout her extraordinary career, Leah has shown tremendous insight, creativity, and commitment to civic responsibility and the spirit of community," said LCPA president and CEO Henry Timms. "All of these are core to who we are at Lincoln Center.”
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| Sarah Kalhorn |
Hotwire has promoted Sarah Kalhorn to vice president. Kalhorn has been with the agency since June 2018, and is based in its Minneapolis office. Before coming to Hotwire, she was an account supervisor with Padilla, and she has also worked at Ogilvy Public Relations. At Hotwire, her duties have included speaking around the country at events about Hotwire’s high-stakes leadership report. In her new role, she will continue to work with senior leaders at enterprise and startup companies, and will be responsible for helping to build out an industrial tech practice.
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.
