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| Kristy Chan |
WarnerMedia has named Kristy Chan vice president, publicity for TNT, TBS and truTV. Chan comes to WarnerMedia from Netflix, where she served as director, original series publicity, leading a publicity team focused on young adult, family and Shondaland (the TV production company founded by writer/producer Shonda Rhimes) content. Before that, she served as vice president of publicity and awards strategy for Universal Television and Universal Television Alternative Studio. In her new post, Chan will oversee a team of publicists and spearhead the publicity effort for the networks’ originals, acquisitions, late-night, scripted and unscripted programming. “Kristy is a great leader, creative thinker and excellent communications strategist,” said Jori Arancio, EVP communications, HBO Max, TNT, TBS, and truTV.
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| Eric Salama |
Morning Consult has added former Kanter CEO Eric Salama, and former Omnicom Public Relations Group CEO Karen van Bergen to its board of directors. Salama and van Bergen join the data intelligence company’s board following its May announcement of a Series A funding round. Currently, a senior fellow at The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the chair of Comic Relief, Salama left Kantar in February after having led the firm for over 17 years. Van Bergen led the Omnicom Public Relations Group for almost four years and now serves as dean of Omnicom University. Led by CEO and co-founder Michael Ramlet, the Morning Consult board of directors is also composed of Lupa Systems partner Ben FitzGerald, Advance Venture Partners founding and managing partner David ibnAle, and Sonos, Inc. co-founder Craig Shelburne.
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| Chip Garner |
MWWPR has hired Chip Garner as senior vice president, corporate reputation. Garner comes to MWWPR from British Airways, where he led all media relations, crisis communications, creative and corporate campaigns. He was previously a senior vice president at Ogilvy and vice president, digital strategies at Rubenstein Communications. In his new position, he will be working across groups and sectors and will play a key role in expanding the agency's Social CEO offering, which was formally launched in May. "Chip brings a deep background in traditional and non-traditional integrated campaign management,” said MWWPR founder and CEO Michael Kempner.
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| Rich Smith |
Jornaya, a data-as-a-service company, has named Rich Smith chief marketing officer. Smith comes to Jornaya from the CMO spot at Chief Outsiders, which provides companies with fractional chief marketing officers. Before that, he founded marketing and advertising firm Marketantics. In his new role, Smith will lead efforts to evolve the company's brand as it continues to shape how marketers use data and insights to optimize timing and messaging for customer retention, acquisition and cross-selling while safeguarding consumer privacy. Jornaya offers users a proprietary view of more than 200 million consumer major-life purchases each month. “Having been a customer of Jornaya in past roles, Rich knows the company well and truly understands the value that we bring to our customers,” said Jornaya founder and CEO Ross Shanken.
Actum has hired Cecelia Prewett, who was president of DC Public Affairs at SKDK during a nearly 13-year run, as senior managing director in its Washington office.
Franz Paasche, who was most recently EVP for public affairs and communications at Columbia University, will join Verizon as EVP, corporate affairs, effective Nov. 10.
Horizon Family Brands, which includes Horizon Organic and Wallaby Organic yogurt, hires Andrew Springate as CMO... Wake Tech, a Raleigh, NC community college that serves over 70000 adults annually, brings on Lisa Marie Ferrell, who previously led North America communications at Lenovo, as VP of communications and marketing... Golin brings on executive creative director Meg Farquhar in Chicago, and EVPs of strategy Tom Howells (Western Region) and Martin Coomber (New York).
Hotwire Global appoints Burson global chief digital & intelligence officer Grant Toups as global CEO, effective in January.
Bader Rutter, which works with clients in the agriculture, food, beverage and pet care sectors, appoints Demar Anderson as CMO... Acceleration Community of Companies appoints Michael Moschella to lead its new insights division, ACC Intelligence... Luminate, a London-based shop focused on infrastructure and energy sectors, hires Osman Dervish as director—head of development... The Alpine Group promotes Alison Graab to principal from SVP.
