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| Danny Calogero |
Vested names Danny Calogero director in its London office. Calogero joins the agency from Lansons, where he was a board director. He has also served as a director at Peregrine Communications, an associate director at Headland Consultancy and an account director at Prosek Partners. In his new post, Calogero will lead a number of strategic accounts and work to drive further growth. “His experience, drive and enthusiasm to deliver exceptional results and evolve the role of financial services communications makes him a clear fit for our team," said Vested UK chief executive officer Elspeth Rothwell. Calogero’s appointment coincides with Vested’s third anniversary in the UK.
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| Sven Johnston |
Idea Hall adds Sven Johnston to its executive leadership team as vice president. Johnston comes to Idea Hall from marketing firm Gigasavvy, where he was a founding partner and vice president of business development. At Idea Hall, Johnston will work to cultivate new and existing clients across the firm’s key practice studios: real estate, healthcare, business services, nonprofit, consumer products, hospitality/travel/leisure, education and public agencies. He will also will work alongside the marketing and operations teams to help shape the agency’s regional and national growth strategy. Idea Hall president and CEO Rebecca Hall calls Johnston “one of the most well-respected and highly regarded business connectors in the industry.”
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| Claire Koeneman |
Golin hires Claire Koeneman to lead its North American corporate communications practice. Koeneman was most recently a partner at Bully Pulpit Interactive. She has served as executive vp, corporate communications at Hill + Knowlton and president of MWWPR/Financial Relations Board. Koeneman will provide corporate communications strategy for some of Golin’s enterprise accounts as well as leading new business efforts across the region, contributing to global growth efforts and working in collaboration with Golin Group brands IPG DXTRA and IPG.
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| Zarnaz Arlia |
Astute brings on Zarnaz Arlia as chief marketing officer and promotes Shellie Vornhagen to chief customer experience officer at the consumer engagement platform. Zarnaz was most recently global vice president of corporate marketing at Sitecore. She has also served as vice president of marketing at Trifacta and vice president of corporate marketing at Neustar. As CMO, Arlia will be based in San Francisco and oversee the integration of Astute’s marketing organization with recent acquisitions of iPerceptions and Socialbakers. Vornhagen was previously Astute’s SVP of Marketing and Client Services. Before that, she led global market strategy for Oracle’s retail business unit.
SKDK brings on CR Wooters, who was most recently senior director and head of federal affairs at Uber, as a principal in the agency’s public affairs practice.
ICR adds Donna F. Anderson to its governance & shareholder advisory practice as senior advisor. She comes to ICR from T. Rowe Price... Troutman Strategies, a government affairs firm that is a subsidiary of legal firm Troutman Pepper Locke, promotes Neftali Partida and Tom Tilton to principal... Hancock Whitney, a Gulfport, MS-based financial services company, brings on Mary Elizabeth Stringer as director of government affairs, a newly created role.
Ballard Strategy Group names former Burson managing director Mike Waterman as MD. Waterman comes to Ballard from ROKK Solutions... The Herald Group brings on Trace Scruggs and Evan Lukaske as VPs... Travelier, which operates platforms for booking intercity transportation services via buses, trains and ferries in 124 countries, appoints Mario Gavira as CMO. 
Raffetto Herman Strategic Communications brings on Jessica Gail, who served as director of communications for Rep. Eric Swalwell, as senior media lead... Prime Therapeutics appoints Katie Payne as chief external affairs officer, a newly created role. She was previously a senior director at APCO... Thunderly promotes Jason Weaver to director of paid media. 
Ruder Finn hires Brent Mullins as SVP, talent and partnerships. Mullins joins the agency from 160over90, where he was VP, entertainment marketing... Allison Worldwide names Katie Huang Shin global president, technology, effective Nov. 14... Vasion, which provides serverless printing and AI-enabled automation, appoints Cindy White as CMO. 
