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| Stephanie Garcia |
W2O brings on Stephanie Garcia as chief people officer. Garcia joins W2O from Postmates, where she was senior vice president, people and civic labs. Before that, she led global HR and business performance at PayPal and Salesforce. She also held HR leadership roles at Life Technologies Corporation, a leader in biotech solutions. “Stephanie brings incredible energy and a refreshing perspective that will help us achieve our ambitious vision for the future,” said W2O founder and CEO Jim Weiss.
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| Roselyn Igbani |
Precision has hired Roselyn Igbani to serve as its first creative director and Tim Rice to serve as a director in its Strategic Communications practice. Igbani was previously senior art director at DDC Public Affairs, overseeing the vision and execution of digital campaigns and managing a staff of over 15 creatives. Before that, she was a designer and art director at SevenTwenty Strategies. Rice was most recently an executive vice president, managing director at BCW. He has also worked as a senior director at Burson-Marsteller and manager, corporate communications at PNC Financial Services Group. His areas of expertise include corporate and brand positioning, executive communications and visibility, strategic media relations, issues management, and headline risk mitigation.
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| Sophia Kim |
New York State Department of Financial Services names Sophia Kim director of communications. Kim joined DFS in 2019 as press secretary. She was previously a director in the public affairs practice at SKDKnickerbocker’s New York office and a spokeswoman for the Fire Department of the City of New York, working with senior leaders on crisis communications, media relations and rapid response during fires and emergency incidents. She also served as a deputy press secretary at the U.S. Small Business Administration.
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| Jayne O'Brien |
JetBlue hires Jayne O’Brien as head of marketing and loyalty. O’Brien comes to JetBlue from Scenic—Luxury Cruises & Tours, where she was managing director, USA. Before that, she was senior vice president of global brands at Intercontinental Hotel Group, chief marketing officer for Dubai Properties Group and head of global brand & UK marketing at British Airways. In her new post, O’Brien is responsible for the airline’s brand, marketing and advertising, e-commerce and TrueBlue loyalty program.
Lionsgate, which brings together diversified motion picture and television production and distribution businesses, promotes Laurel Pecchia to SVP, corporate communications... Anonymous Content, a New York-based film production and management company, recruits former Showtime/MTV executive vice president Liza Burnett Fefferman as chief communications and marketing officer, a newly created position... Legacy Motor Club brings on Ryan Grab as VP, marketing and communications.
Stagwell has named Lena Petersen, a veteran of MediaLink, Starcom MediaVest and Leo Burnett, chief brand and communications officer.
Carrie Healey has joined the National Association of Broadcasters as VP communications. Most recently, she was program lead at Purple Strategies.
HAVAS Red names Adeena Fried EVP health & wellness, based in New York... Genius Sports Limited, a provider of real-time sports data, names Tony Marlow as CMO... Deerfield Group, which works with clients in the healthcare and life sciences sectors, promotes Bill Veltre to chief media officer... The Public Affairs Council brings on Monica Day as senior manager in its political affairs practice, Deanna Wisniewski as senior manager of communications and Sam Kasner as manager of events. 
Imre names Paulina De la Riva chief strategy officer. De la Riva joins the agency from Ogilvy Health, where she most recently served as EVP, strategy for North America... FNK IR, a strategic investor relations firm focused on smaller cap companies, brings on Greg McKinley as director, investor relations... Bear Icebox Communications, a Chicago-based firm, promotes Sean Wille to VP, strategy + operations... Abode Worldwide, a specialist firmthat works across hotels, short-term rentals and the wider serviced living sectors, appoints Kerry Wilson as chief operating officer.
