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| Anne Swan |
Prosek Partners puts Anne Swan in chief creative officer seat. She joins Prosek from design company Dear Future, where she also served as chief creative officer. Before that, she was executive creative director at Siegel+Gale. Swan has created work for such clients as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, CVS Health and American Express. Her appointment is intended to strengthen Prosek’s marketing offering and signals the firm’s commitment to building and protecting client brands. “Anne’s deep expertise in branding and design is a valuable addition to our current offerings and will be a step into the future for our firm’s holistic marketing capabilities,” said Prosek Partners founder and managing partner Jennifer Prosek.
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| Stephanie Dressler |
Dukas Linden Public Relations ups Stephanie Dressler to executive VP. Dressler, who joined DLPR as an account supervisor in 2012, is part of the agency’s executive management team consisting of Richard Dukas, Seth Linden, Zach Leibowitz, Zach Kouwe, Shree Dhond and Ed Nebb. In addition to managing and servicing large, high-profile clients, she plays a key new business development role at the agency and acts as a mentor and manager to team members. Before coming to DLPR, she was a senior associate at Montieth and Company.
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| Karen Ong |
Marketing for Change promotes Karen Ong to executive creative director. Ong has been creative director at the agency since 2010, overseeing public health and advocacy campaigns for such organizations and government agencies as the National Cancer Institute, American Academy of Pediatrics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. She supervises an award-winning team of graphic designers, copywriters, developers, and video producers and editors. “Karen pushes our creative teams to tap emotions and make people laugh… but it’s her deep understanding of behavior that sets her apart,” said chairman and chief creative officer Peter Mitchell.
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.
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.
Andreessen Horowitz has named Anne Neuberger partner and head of global affairs at the venture capital giant.
