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| Darren Schillace |
Fox Entertainment promotes Darren Schillace to president of marketing. Schillace has been with Fox since 2017, previously serving as executive vice president, marketing. Before coming to Fox, he was senior vice president, marketing strategy at ABC Television and vice president, marketing at Oprah Winfrey Network. In his newly expanded role, he’ll lead marketing strategies for all business units within Fox Entertainment, which includes Fox and its free streaming AVOD platform Tubi, as well as projects from Bento Box, Fox Alternative Entertainment and Blockchain Creative Labs. He also works on marketing projects across the larger Fox Corp. “Darren is a terrific marketer and a tireless, focused, creative partner,” said Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier.
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| Jim Cyphert |
BAERING hires Jim Cyphert as public relations director. Cyphert comes to the agency from Innis Maggiore, where he also served as public relations director, overseeing all traditional PR initiatives including media relations, investor relations, employee communications, media training and crisis communication, and managed digital content strategies. In his new post, he will execute strategic PR, content, media relations and social media campaigns for BAERING clients, managing collaboration across the agency. The agency has also added Macey Bryant as project manager and Brooke Poole as senior strategic advisor. “This investment in a new team structure will support our agency in our efforts to do great work for our clients.” said BAERING chairman Robert Buhler.
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| Dale Denham |
The Promotional Products Association International names Dale Denham president and CEO. He will assume his new post mid-August. Denham joins PPAI from marketing and advertising firm Geiger (a PPAI member), where he served as senior vice president and chief information officer. Before that, he was senior vice president at the Advertising Specialty Institute, another leader in the promotional products industry and a key ally to PPAI in legislative advocacy and other common industry interests. “Dale’s leadership, technology and industry experience will allow PPAI to seamlessly and strategically move forward to lead a growing and dynamic membership base and marketing industry,” said Maura Mitchell, PPAI’s strategic planning consultant and founder of Brandology. “Dale has solid fiscal responsibility experience and stellar leadership capabilities.”
Actum has hired Cecelia Prewett, who was president of DC Public Affairs at SKDK during a nearly 13-year run, as senior managing director in its Washington office.
Franz Paasche, who was most recently EVP for public affairs and communications at Columbia University, will join Verizon as EVP, corporate affairs, effective Nov. 10.
Horizon Family Brands, which includes Horizon Organic and Wallaby Organic yogurt, hires Andrew Springate as CMO... Wake Tech, a Raleigh, NC community college that serves over 70000 adults annually, brings on Lisa Marie Ferrell, who previously led North America communications at Lenovo, as VP of communications and marketing... Golin brings on executive creative director Meg Farquhar in Chicago, and EVPs of strategy Tom Howells (Western Region) and Martin Coomber (New York).
Hotwire Global appoints Burson global chief digital & intelligence officer Grant Toups as global CEO, effective in January.
Bader Rutter, which works with clients in the agriculture, food, beverage and pet care sectors, appoints Demar Anderson as CMO... Acceleration Community of Companies appoints Michael Moschella to lead its new insights division, ACC Intelligence... Luminate, a London-based shop focused on infrastructure and energy sectors, hires Osman Dervish as director—head of development... The Alpine Group promotes Alison Graab to principal from SVP.
