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| Catherine Seeds |
Ketner Group Communications has promoted Catherine Seeds to president from senior VP. Agency founder and president Jeff Ketner will take on the role of CEO as part of the leadership transition. Seeds has been with the agency since 2002 and played an instrumental role in the opening of its offices in New York and Nashville earlier this year. As president and partner, she will work closely with Ketner and the agency’s senior leadership team to guide the agency’s growth and expansion, focusing on key accounts, business development and agency culture. Ketner Group focuses on B2B technology and professional services clients in a number of markets including adtech/martech, legal, IT, healthcare and other areas.
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| Kelly Grunther |
American Friends of Tel Aviv University has appointed Kelly Grunther as the organization’s vice president of marketing and communications. Grunther joins AFTAU from UJA-Federation of New York, where she served as assistant director of its entertainment, marketing and communications group. She was previously founder and president of Kelly Grunther Public Relations, which represented clients in sports, entertainment, health care, fashion, beauty and business that included the Motion Picture & Television Fund, the NFL Player Care Foundation and the Foxwoods/MGM Grand. AFTAU supports Tel Aviv University, which educates 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students a year and is ranked ninth in the world for producing startup founders of billion-dollar companies.
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| Kellie Jelencovich |
PRSA-NY has installed Kellie Jelencovich, public relations manager at Travel Leaders Group, as its 2020 president. Jelencovich oversaw the 2019 Big Apple Awards, and was one of the inaugural winners of the PRSA-NY 15 Under 35 Awards. Among those joining Jelencovich on the PRSA-NY 2020 executive committee are Clear founding partner Andrew Graham, who will serve as president-elect; RiverSpring VP of communications Wendy Steinberg, who will be vice president (marketing); Penny Mitchell of Penny Mitchell Public Relations, who will be VP (membership) and IAS director of corporate communications Angela Barnett, who will be VP (programs).
Michele Ziosi will rejoin Stellantis on Oct. 1 as chief PA officer responsible for Enlarged Europe and for the global coordination of the carmaker’s PA activities.
Inizio, which works with clients in the health and life sciences sectors, appoints Oisín Ó Gógáin as chief people officer... The Boston Beer Company names Allison Stransky CMO, effective Oct. 12. Stransky was previuosly VP and CMO at Samsung Electronics America... Newark Regional Business Partnership and its 501(c)(3) affiliate, the Renaissance Newark Foundation, bring on Kim Lewis-Collins as VP, marketing and business development, a newly created role. 
Carmichael Lynch president and manager Julie Batliner is joining Padilla as president, succeeding Matt Kuchariski. Kucharski will transition to a fractional role with the agency as an executive counselor through the end of the year.
Evan Shenkman, who has 25 years of law firm experience, is now a partner at professional services firm Baretz+Brunelle. He helped design and implement the first generative AI product for legal professionals.
Accenture brings on Emma Chalwin as CMO, effective Oct. 1. Chalwin joins Accenture from Workday, where she also served as CMO, with responsibility for building the brand and driving customer demand in markets around the world... The Vitamin Shoppe appoints Kimberley Gardiner EVP, chief marketing and growth officer. She joins from Tractor Supply Company... Fluent, a provider of commerce media solutions, names Jeanniey Walden as CMO.
