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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.
Jamie Dowd, who was most recently president of the health practice in the Americas at Weber Shandwick, comes on board at Allison Worldwide as global president, health + wellness, effective June 22.
Burson is bringing on Hanover managing director, Middle East Jonty Summers as head of corporate affairs in Dubai at the end of June... Ridgepost Capital, which had over $45 billion in assets under management as of March 31, names Brian McKenna VP, investor relations, effective June 15... The Center for AI Safety appoints Rochelle Nadhiri as head of public engagement. 
Kieran Mahoney, who founded Mercury Public Affairs more than 27 years ago, has stepped down as CEO and assumed the executive chairman post.
FGS Global brings on Harry Florry as head of Singapore and Andrew Yeo as global policy partner Asia... ACORE CAPITAL, a commercial real estate debt investment manager, appoints Cynthia Holahan as CMO, a newly created role at the company... NVE Experience Agency, a global brand experience firm, hires Justin Biskin as SVP in its sports marketing practice. Biskin joins NVE from Nike.
Ipsos, a market research and polling company, appoints Marion Beyret as chief communications officer... TENEX.ai, an AI‑native, human‑led SOC (security operations center) appoints Richard Rogers as CMO... Arizona Athletics hires Carter Toole as chief communications officer and senior associate athletics director.
