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| Cassandra Sweet |
Mission Control Communications ups Cassandra Sweet and Connie Zhang to VPs. Sweet was previously a senior reporter at the Wall Street Journal and an editor at Dow Jones Newswires, covering renewable energy and climate policy. Zhang has worked with growth-stage tech startups and companies, as well as with such environmental agencies as the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and San Francisco Department of Environment. In their new positions, they will both lead agency teams to support and advise planet-forward startups and further the agency’s mission to help end the world’s dependence on fossil fuels.
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| Jessica Jensen |
Job site Indeed names Jessica Jensen chief marketing officer. Jensen previously served as SVP of marketing for KAYAK and CMO at OpenTable, both part of Booking Holdings. Before that, she was head of products, platforms & insights for business marketing at Facebook, leading global positioning, marketing strategy and communications of Facebook’s family of business offerings, including Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp. In her new post, Jensen will lead Indeed’s global marketing programs. “Jessica brings incredible experience and new perspective to Indeed, and at the same time has a huge respect for everything we have built,” said CEO Chris Hyams.
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| Julie Strider |
Macy’s promotes Julie Strider to VP, external communications. Strider will report Macy’s SVP, corporate communications Bobby Amirshahi. She has been with the company for more than 13 years, most recently serving as senior director, media relations. Strider has also been publicity director at Bauer Publishing. In her new role, she oversees the national and regional media relations teams, which have been brought together and jointly renamed as external communications, reflecting what the company says is a united consumer media relations and PR function.
Steve Rice, who served as director of political mobilization for Boeing, joins DC-based bipartisan public affairs and strategic communications firm The Herald Group as SVP, overseeing its grasstops and 50-state field operations. 
Qorvis has named Victor Shiblie senior advisor to boost its international network and global business opportunities.
Pierre DuBois has taken the VP-public affairs post at AIB Data Centers, developer of the digital infrastructure for AI hosting and high-performance computing workloads.
Allison Worldwide names Victoria Brophy EVP, head of corporate and technology in Europe. Brophy comes to the firm from Golin Ketchum London, where as EVP she built and led the London Corporate Affairs practice... 
Signal Group, a DC-based public affairs firm, hires Josie Feron as director. Feron was most recently communications director for the Office of Congresswoman Deborah Ross (D-NC)... Moburst, a mobile-first digital agency driven by a proprietary AI program, appoints Etgar Shpivak as VP of marketing... Howard University hires Jasmine Gurley as senior director of public relations in the Office of University Communications.
