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| Dallas Lawrence |
Dallas Lawrence, a digital/crisis and public affairs veteran, has joined Roku streaming TV service as head of communications for its business platform.
He's held a variety of key PR jobs such as VP-corporate affairs at Mattel, chief global digital strategist at Burson-Marsteller and senior VP for digital media at Levick.
Lawrence also did a stint with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad and at the Pentagon in the office of public liaison & community relations for Defense Secretaries Rumsfeld and Gates.
Most recently, Lawrence was chief communications & brand officer at OpenX, the Los Angeles-based advertising technology company.


SKDK has Ryan Thompson, who was chief mobilization officer for the Harris for President campaign, to run its new Blizzard TXT, a new peer-to-peer SMS/MMS texting platform.
Eric Petersen, who was senior VP-social strategy & innovation at Weber Shandwick during a seven-year run, has joined Ruder Finn.
Adam Shapiro, who helped develop FGS Global’s digital strategy, has joined Reevemark as its digital head.
Avika Dua, who was digital director for New York governor Kathy Hochul, has joined SKDK as a VP to work on both political and corporate campaigns.
Maxwell Nunes, who was director of paid media for South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, has joined SKDK as executive VP.



