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| Elizabeth-Burton Jones |
Seven Letter brings on Elizabeth-Burton Jones as a director in its Washington, D.C. office. Jones most recently served as press secretary for Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH). She previously held a variety of roles for Republican members of Congress from Ohio, Texas, Virginia and Oklahoma, and has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and The George Washington University. The agency has also hired Zeina Muhtadi as a content specialist to strengthen its in-house design team. “Elizabeth-Burton and Zeina are both incredibly smart communicators with the skill and experience to help our clients not just tell their stories, but bring them to life,” said Seven Letter founding partner Trevor Francis.
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| Mike Spahn |
Precision Strategies promotes Mike Spahn from managing director to partner. He will be the first non-founder to serve as a partner at the firm. Before joining Precision in 2019, Spahn was chief of staff to Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA). At Precision, he’s provided strategic counsel to several Fortune 50 companies, causes, and political candidates navigating complex issues, and has expanded the agency’s work to national public affairs campaigns. The agency has also promoted Erin Lindsay and Deirdre Murphy Ramsey to managing directors in Digital and Communications respectively.
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| David Reich-Hale |
Northwell Health, New York's largest health system, hires David Reich-Hale as senior advisor, public relations, overseeing the company’s thought leadership efforts. Reich-Hale will start in the position on July 14. He comes to Northwell from Newsday, where he was a business reporter. He was previously associate editorial director for Patch.com and the editor of Long Island Business News. At Northwell, Reich-Hale will work to drive content and messaging around causes and issues important to the health system and its executives.
maslansky + partners, a specialist consultancy within Omnicom Public Relations, names founding partner Keith Yazmir president of the firm... The National Football League Players Association names Matt Taylor chief communications officer, effective Sept. 8... Repay Holdings Corporation, a provider of bill payment solutions, appoints Charles Nabhan as head of investor relations.
Bospar hires veteran technology, cybersecurity and healthcare sector journalist and content creator Doug Olenick as tech and healthcare content director... The Huntington National Bank appoints Ameesh Vakharia as EVP and chief marketing and digital products officer, a newly created role... SDA International, a Honolulu-based strategic communications firm, promotes Cassie Kim to SVP. 
Burson Brussels chief client officer Ruud Wassen has moved to Consello to open its outpost in the headquarters city of NATO and the European Union.
Reputation Advisors International adds Newick Consulting founder Peter Thomas as its newest member. Based in Abu Dhabi, Thomas has more than 35 years of experience advising major global clients on reputation issues... TruePoint appoints April Steinbach, who has held senior creative posts at BBDO and McCann Worldgroup, as creative director....Athene, a subsidiary of Apollo Global Management that focuses on retirement solutions, names Brett Gibson EVP and head of investor relations. Gibson comes to Athene from JP Morgan Securities.
Stellantis names Stephanie Hartgrove chief communications officer. Hartgrove joins Stellantis from Johnson & Johnson, where she was global vice president of MedTech communications and public affairs... FINN Partners appoints Kim Sizemore as head of integrated media. Sizemore joins FINN from Wieden+Kennedy... Lucid Group, which makes software-defined vehicles and technologies, names Angela Zepeda as Vice President, Global Marketing. Zepeda was most recently global head of marketing at Elon Musk's xAI. 
