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| Ellen Ryan Mardiks |
Golin promotes Ellen Ryan Mardiks to global chairman. Fred Cook, chairman since 2017, becomes chair emeritus. Mardiks, who has been with Golin for over three decades, will be responsible for shaping work products and agency IP. Her duties will include adapting and enhancing The Playbook, Golin’s internal step-by-step planning process, which was designed to produce better earned-first, data-driven creative. She also will serve as an executive consultant to C-suite leaders for some of the agency’s largest clients, including Humana, Nestlé and Walmart. “Ellen is one of the most gifted and talented client counsellors in Golin’s history,” said CEO Matt Neale. “She helps clients, from our oldest to our newest, understand the value of earned-first ideas to drive business.”
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| Jenny Radloff |
PAN Communications ups Jenny Radloff to VP. Radloff, who has been with the agency since 2010, most recently served as director. In her new post, she will play a larger role in PAN’s dedicated mentorship program. A member of the agency’s DEI leadership team, Radloff played a key role developing its Issues Response Team, a group sharing external communications guidance with staff. “Jenny is the epitome of leading by example. She doesn't just anticipate client needs or react to what's in front of her; she takes her breadth and depth of industry knowledge and strategizes on how to move the needle for a company,” said PAN senior vice president Nikki Festa.
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| Krista Crouch |
Novitas Communications elevates Krista Crouch to VP. Crouch joined Novitas last year as a manager. Before that, she was public relations and social media manager at MJ Freeway, a company that creates software for cannabis businesses. Crouch has worked with companies on owned, earned and paid strategies including community engagement, digital messaging and strategy, messaging, positioning and internal and external communications. “Not only has she been instrumental to helping us navigate the tumult throughout 2020, but she has been able to help develop and implement the culture of excellence and accountability that is critically important to me and to our success,” said Novitas founder and CEO Michelle Lyng.
Ramiro Prudencio, who did a more than 25 year stint at Burson and its predecessor firms, has joined Brunswick Group as a partner in London.
Amy Edgy has joined Teneo as senior managing director and head of restructuring communications in its PR unit.
GCI Health brings on Eric Helgesen, who led digital transition and enterprise platform development at Weber Shandwick, as EVP, head of AI and innovation... Stanton Communications appoints Je’Coven Norwood as account director and Rida Dhanani as an account executive... Netflix hires the Walt Disney Company’s Naomi Bulochnikov-Paul as VP of television series communications... Abry Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm, names Yusef Kassim as head of capital strategy and investor relations.
Former Racepoint Global president Bob Osmond has moved to Clarity Global, where he will be managing partner, North America.
Jennifer Bett Communications names Kara Kamenec VP of affiliate and influencer marketing... Mark Allen & Co. brings on Isaac Benjamin as VP and Stacey Richman as account director, both based in the firm’s New York office... Mark43, a cloud-native public safety operations platform, appoints Alison Durant as CMO.
