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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.
Arnold & Porter, which employs over 1,000 lawyers, hires Jeff Berardi as chief business development and marketing officer... PNC Financial Services Group appoints PayPal's Jenn Garbach as CMO... Xebia, an IT consultancy and software development company, brings on Keith Landis to lead marketing.
The University of Southern California hires Joel Curran, a former managing director at MSLGROUP, as SVP and CCO, effective July 10... Comsint brings on Allison Matthews and Jenna Matthews (the two are not related) as executive VPs... The Wonderful Company hires former Revlon VP of marketing Benal Serin as senior VP of marketing.
Purpose Built Communities, a nonprofit housing group, hires The Walt Disney Co.'s Curtis Hunter as VP of marketing and communications... AI-assisted public relations platform Intelligent Relations brings on Nadel Phelan CEO Paula Phelan as chief operating officer... Allied Global Marketing promotes Erin Corbett to executive VP of global partnership marketing.
Bryan Lesswing, senior advisor to New York Governor Kathy Hochul, has joined Stagwell’s SKDK unit’s public affairs practice as SVP to work on corporate, crisis and advocacy clients.
The Bliss Group names senior VP and professional services practice co-lead Keri Toomey as the firm’s first head of employee experience... Pierpont Communications brings on Tad Druart as a vice president... SrawberryFrog, an agency that works in areas including AI and experience design, hires Rasika Narang as ichief growth officer.
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