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| Lisa Rosenberg |
Allison+Partners has promoted Lisa Rosenberg to president, consumer brands, a newly created position. Rosenberg was previously chief creative officer and co-chair consumer marketing. Before coming to Allison+Partners in 2013 she was president of North America for Havas PR, where she was responsible for the operational and business leadership of the agency. She also spent two decades at Porter Novelli, where she served on the agency's global leadership committee and held a variety of executive leadership roles. In her new post, Rosenberg will focus on unifying the practice, nurturing and adding depth to agency talent and driving business growth across regions.
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| Melissa Baratta |
ARPR has hired Melissa Baratta to serve as VP of its HealthIT practice group, a newly created position. Baratta comes to ARPR from Affect, where she most recently served as senior VP, healthcare lead. Before joining Affect in 2012, she was managing director at Ricochet Public Relations. Baratta has represented such clients as Quest Diagnostics, GlaxoSmithKline and Curable. At ARPR, Baratta will oversee the firm’s HealthIT business, which includes electronic health records, telehealth, patient engagement and population health management. ARPR’s HealthIT practice has recently added tech-enabled pharmacy benefits optimizer RxBenefits to its client roster and extended its relationship with Rimidi, a cloud-based software provider that last month announced an EHR-integrated COVID-19 screening application for health systems to flag patients with possible Coronavirus symptoms.
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| Danielle Gower Adamski |
Furia Rubel Communications has hired Danielle Gower Adamski as a public relations director. Gower Adamski was previously director, marketing and institutional advancement at Good Shepherd Penn Partners, a hospital and healthcare company. Her experience encompasses digital marketing strategy, communications, fundraising and community relations programs. In her new role, Gower Adamski collaborates with clients to develop and implement integrated communications and marketing strategies, including public relations, media relations, crisis communications, content marketing and social media.
maslansky + partners, a specialist consultancy within Omnicom Public Relations, names founding partner Keith Yazmir president of the firm... The National Football League Players Association names Matt Taylor chief communications officer, effective Sept. 8... Repay Holdings Corporation, a provider of bill payment solutions, appoints Charles Nabhan as head of investor relations.
Bospar hires veteran technology, cybersecurity and healthcare sector journalist and content creator Doug Olenick as tech and healthcare content director... The Huntington National Bank appoints Ameesh Vakharia as EVP and chief marketing and digital products officer, a newly created role... SDA International, a Honolulu-based strategic communications firm, promotes Cassie Kim to SVP. 
Burson Brussels chief client officer Ruud Wassen has moved to Consello to open its outpost in the headquarters city of NATO and the European Union.
Reputation Advisors International adds Newick Consulting founder Peter Thomas as its newest member. Based in Abu Dhabi, Thomas has more than 35 years of experience advising major global clients on reputation issues... TruePoint appoints April Steinbach, who has held senior creative posts at BBDO and McCann Worldgroup, as creative director....Athene, a subsidiary of Apollo Global Management that focuses on retirement solutions, names Brett Gibson EVP and head of investor relations. Gibson comes to Athene from JP Morgan Securities.
Stellantis names Stephanie Hartgrove chief communications officer. Hartgrove joins Stellantis from Johnson & Johnson, where she was global vice president of MedTech communications and public affairs... FINN Partners appoints Kim Sizemore as head of integrated media. Sizemore joins FINN from Wieden+Kennedy... Lucid Group, which makes software-defined vehicles and technologies, names Angela Zepeda as Vice President, Global Marketing. Zepeda was most recently global head of marketing at Elon Musk's xAI. 
