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| Bob Bissen |
The National Head Start Association names former APCO Worldwide senior director Bob Bissen director of government affairs. Bissen is the founder and president of public affairs shop RJB Strategies. He was previously a senior vice president at Cannae Policy Group. At APCO, he developed and managed government relations and public affairs campaigns to proactively impact federal policy. Launched in 1965 as a comprehensive child development program, Head Start is the voice for more than 1 million children, 245,000 staff and 1,600 Head Start grantees in the United States.
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| Iris Liu |
Hill+Knowlton Strategies appoints Iris Liu as senior VP to lead H+K China’s corporate & performance communications practice. She will also serve as general manager of H+K’s office in Beijing. Liu comes to H+K from Shunya International, a leading Chinese PR agency, where she most recently served as VP. She has also been a senior account manager at Porter Novelli China. “Her accumulated in-depth industry knowledge, strategic communications skills and complex account management capabilities will help deepen H+K’s client portfolio in corporate, financial and branding communications,” said H+K China CEO Jun Xu.
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| Eliza Levy |
Stanton Communications hires Eliza Levy as a senior account manager. Levy was previously a senior communications consultant at Sage Communication. She has also served as federal communications director at the BlueGreen Alliance and manager of public relations and grassroots at the National Council of Textile Organizations. She will focus on technology and American manufacturing. The agency has also brought on Rebekah Eskandani, who was communications director for the US House of  Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and Sarah Orzach, who previously served as an account director at Maroon PR, as senior account executives.
Target appoints Mark Weinstein as chief marketing and guest experience officer... Deerfield Group, which works with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, health tech and consumer health companies, appoints Brian Rocks as CFO and Shelby Rauen as head of strategy... Hailstone Strategies, a PR and strategic communications firm for labor unions and workers’ rights organizations, hires LaToya Smith and Andrew Baker as VPs.
Precision Strategies has recruited DGA Group Americas head Adam Cubbage as CEO of the Washington-based firm.
John Flannery, who has more than two decades of
Christine Lewis, who was most recently SVP at Inkhouse, moves to Tier One Partners, where she will be SVP, managing director. 
Dezenhall Resources, a DC-based crisis management and public affairs firm names Jennifer Condon as SVP. Condon joins the firm from America250, the congressionally authorized organization overseeing the United States’ 250th-anniversary commemoration... Thunderly brings on Carlos Cortinas as chief strategy officer, a newly created position... Reputation Advisors International, a global network of senior communications professionals with members in 18 cities across 14 countries, brings on Thiago Vitale, CEO of Brazilian firm TORRE Comunicação e Estratégia, as its newest member. 
