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| Linh Peters |
Calvin Klein names Linh Peters global chief marketing officer, according to a report in WWD. Peters comes to the company from Starbucks, where she has most recently served as vice president, loyalty, partnerships and licensed stores product and marketing. She has also held senior marketing roles at Ulta Beauty and Target. At Calvin Klein, she will oversee all aspects of its consumer marketing organization, working to develop the company’s brand experience, product marketing and data-driven marketing innovation. Peters succeeds Marie Gulin-Merle, who is now vice president of global ads marketing at Google.
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| Danny Phan |
Wachsman, a communications and strategy consultancy, has appointed Danny Phan chief strategy officer. For the past 18 months, Phan has been the agency’s managing director for Asia Pacific, leading the regional headquarters in Singapore. Prior to joining Wachsman, Phan was regional managing director for Teneo Singapore and Southeast Asia, and has held senior leadership roles at Burson-Marsteller and Ogilvy. In his new role, Phan will have extended management responsibilities across all regional headquarters and will be responsible for spearheading Wachsman’s global growth strategy, including the expansion of the firm’s intellectual property, service offerings and talent strategy, as well as cross-border client mandates. “Danny has the extraordinary combination of brilliance, vision, and management expertise to lead a sophisticated organization in the next stage of our journey, as we continue to progress as a company and as a consultancy,” said Wachsman founder and CEO David Wachsman.
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| Anita Kawatra |
Healthcare tech company nference has named Anita Kawatra chief corporate affairs officer, a newly created position. Prior to joining nference, Kawatra was a founding executive at Inheris Biopharma and held senior management roles at Elan Pharmaceuticals, Merck and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. She also served in the administrations of New York City Mayor David Dinkins and New York Governor Mario Cuomo. At nference, Kawatra leads marketing, communications, investor relations, government affairs, corporate social responsibility and business development, and will reporting to nference co-founder and CEO Murali Aravamudan.
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.
