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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.
Aaron Guiterman will rejoin Edelman’s government and PA unit as head of US public affairs on April 29.
Meyocks, a branding and marketing agency, hires Marcie Garcia to lead its strategy function... Erich and Kallman, the ad agency co-founded by Steven Erich and Eric Kallman, appoints Stephen Larkin as its first CMO... Allied Global Marketing, which has 24 offices across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, names Nicola Gold as business director APAC, brand experience.
Pierpont Communications of Houston hires Dan Mahoney and Pete Webb to focus on building a presence in the Denver market... Millwright Holdings appoints Ainsley Sheikali as head of business development, a new post... Shore Fire Media CEO Marilyn Laverty is tapped to increase collaboration among the Dolphin Entertainment units... Berns Communications Group names Quin Acciani VP, consumer and retail practice. 
Prosek Partners brings on Diana Estupinan to lead its first office in the Middle East, which will be located in Abu Dhabi... Madwell promotes Gabriela Benitez to president, a newly created role at the firm... Zonda, which provides data-driven market solutions to companies in the homebuilding industry, names Tom LeBaron as VP, performance and growth marketing
FGS Global brings on Global Counsel's Joe Palombo as a partner in the firm’s London office... SJW Group, an investor-owned pure-play water and wastewater utility, names Nazan Riahei as VP of communications, a newly created role... Measurabl, an ESG tech platform for real estate, names Chris Zegal SVP of marketing
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