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| Steve Brecken |
Steve Brecken, who led global PR for Honeywell’s aerospace unit, has joined Hill+Knowlton Strategies as senior VP in its energy & industrials practice.
At Honeywell, Brecken led strategy development/execution, media relations, issues and crisis management.
Earlier, he was communications manager at Sierra Nevada Corp., aerospace/national security contractor, and director of ITT Corp.’s night vision and geospatial systems unit.
Richard Millar, H+K global president and Americas CEO, praised Brecken’s sector intelligence and diverse range of expertise, which will help the E&I practice “find new ways to apply creative solutions to some of the industries most complex challenges.”
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