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| Igor Khrestin |
Finsbury Glover Hering hires Igor Khrestin to serve as a managing director in its Washington, D.C. office. Khrestin joins FGH from the office of Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO), where he was national security advisor while also serving as staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy. He previously worked for Representative and then-Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL), where he served as the staff lead for foreign relations, trade, and appropriations matters. Before his time on Capitol Hill, he was an international policy analyst at BGR Group. “His deep understanding of the evolving Pacific Rim region, experience tackling today’s cybersecurity challenges, and proven record of coalition-building across Capitol Hill, the executive branch and the private sector will be valuable assets to our clients.” said FGH partner Brett O’Brien.
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| Philip Leif Bjerknes |
Hot Paper Lantern names Philip Leif Bjerknes senior vice president of marketing. Before joining HPL, Bjerknes was a partner and marketing director at Alldayeveryday, a hybrid agency and production company whose clients included Coach, Diesel and Equinox. He has also served as executive producer at Readymade Studios and has worked for Gucci and Prada. In his new post, he is tasked with creating marketing campaigns tp help clients raise awareness of their brands and products. HPL has also brought on Nicholas Jackson as creative director and Emily Cottone as social media lead.
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| Amritesh Chaudhuri |
8x8, an integrated cloud communications platform, appoints Amritesh Chaudhuri executive vice president and chief marketing officer. Most recently, Chaudhuri led marketing at RingCentral. Previously, he led marketing for Oracle’s Cloud Platform portfolio and was responsible for setting the leadership vision and execution strategy to drive growth and adoption for Oracle's PaaS and IaaS services. Former CMO Marge Breya will continue to advise 8x8 as a consultant. “Amrit brings deep experience running marketing teams at scale and excels in leading go-to-market strategy in high velocity markets such as the cloud communications industry,” said 8x8 CEO Dave Sipes.
August brings on Andrew Jarrell as a managing director in its New York office. Jarrell comes to the agency from Group Gordon, where he most recently served as chief strategy officer... PSD, which produces activewear and underwear worn by and made for professional athletes, hires Dan Harbison as SVP of marketing and Monica Lin as VP of brand marketing... UKG, an AI platform that combines HR, pay and workforce management, names Vitor De Souza chief communications officer. 
Dezenhall Resources brings on Jessica DeLoach as VP. DeLoach was previously deputy director of public and media relations at the Southern Poverty Law Center... Crowe Media hires Alissa Kasawdish as senior integrated PR manager. Kasawdish was previously an account supervisor at J/PR... Benefitbay, a SaaS platform that lets users make their own benefit decisions, names Lindsey Unterberger as VP of marketing.
Catherine Sullivan, global chief communications officer at Burson, has exited the WPP unit after a 12-year run.
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation hires Amy Martin Ziegenfuss as CMO, effective June 3. Ziegenfuss was most recently CMO at Carnival Cruise Line... Narrative Strategies brings on Hanna Beckman and Rich Casale as senior directors... Grayling has appointed Maury Postal as EVP, creative strategy and innovation services... HMH (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), an educational publisher and technology company focused on K–12 education, assessments and professional learning, names Jessica Naeve CMO.
Brunswick Group has announced that Teneo's Christian Buss and Netflix's Paul Shaw have joined the firm as partners in San Francisco.
