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| Aaron McLear |
Aaron McLear has been named U.S. chair, public affairs at Edelman. He was managing director, public affairs and crisis for the agency’s Western region.
Before joining Edelman, he was director of central communications at Uber. He has also served as an adviser to Neel Kashkari’s 2014 California gubernatorial campaign and Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. McLear previously was press secretary for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and for the Republican National Committee, as well as working on the 2005 Presidential Inaugural Committee and serving as communications director for the 2004 Ohio Bush-Cheney Campaign.
He is a key advisor on Edelman’s partnership with the Gun Safety Alliance and has been the force behind the firm's commitment to gun safety, including its new research on Leadership and Anti-Gun Violence.
Based in DC, Edelman's PA practice has staffers in New York, Chicago, Sacramento, Seattle, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Miami and Orlando.
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.
FGS Global brings on Harry Florry as head of Singapore and Andrew Yeo as global policy partner Asia... ACORE CAPITAL, a commercial real estate debt investment manager, appoints Cynthia Holahan as CMO, a newly created role at the company... NVE Experience Agency, a global brand experience firm, hires Justin Biskin as SVP in its sports marketing practice. Biskin joins NVE from Nike.
Ipsos, a market research and polling company, appoints Marion Beyret as chief communications officer... TENEX.ai, an AI‑native, human‑led SOC (security operations center) appoints Richard Rogers as CMO... Arizona Athletics hires Carter Toole as chief communications officer and senior associate athletics director.
