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| Alfred Leach |
NP Strategy, a strategic communications subsidiary of the Nexsen Pruet law firm has hired Alfred Leach as senior advisor. Most recently, Leach served as president of Leach Advisors, a Raleigh, NC-based business consulting firm. He was previously president and chief strategy officer at Baering, and has held executive positions with the New York Times, Burson-Marstellar, Dun & Bradstreet and Deloitte. Based in NP’s Raleigh office, Leach will work to grow the firm’s client base into North Carolina’s Research Triangle. He will also work with the Charlotte NP strategy team to extend client services across North Carolina.
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| Samantha Graham |
CBS News has promoted Samantha Graham from executive director of communications to vice president of communications. Before coming to CBS, Graham served as vice president of public relations at Turner Broadcasting, press rep to the film and video department at the Museum of Modern Art and development coordinator at the American Film Institute. At CBS, she worked mainly with “CBS This Morning” and “CBS This Morning: Saturday,” guiding publicity efforts for breaking stories, interviews and live coverage of such events as the 2016 political conventions. “Samantha has been an advocate for the programs and all of her CTM colleagues since she joined,” said CBS News senior VP of communications Christa Robinson.
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| Bennett Dixon |
Chicago-based SRW, which specializes in natural health and wellness brands, has hired Bennett Dixon as the firm’s first vice president of accounts and strategy. Dixon was previously director of brand, creative & content for W.W. Grainger. He has also served as director of advertising & brand strategy for Charles Schwab, content development manager for Miller Brewing and senior vice president, account director for Leo Burnett. In this new role, Dixon will lead a team of hybrid strategist-account managers.
Brittany Sullivan, who held the senior VP-executive director of marketing post at Golin, has moved to Burson.
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.
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.
