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| Yumi Clevenger-Lee |
QuEST Global appoints Yumi Clevenger-Lee as global chief marketing officer. Clevenger-Lee comes to QuEST from Nestlé Waters North America, where she served as executive VP and chief marketing officer, with responsibility for a $4.5B portfolio of 16 brands. Before that, she was director of marketing for the Latin America region of Cereal Partners Worldwide, the partnership between Nestlé & General Mills. At QuEST, Clevenger-Lee will be responsible for marketing strategy, brand positioning, advertising and corporate communications. “She is known as a passionate brand builder who has been instrumental in developing strategies that have helped organizations accelerate growth,” said QuEST Global chairman and CEO Ajit Prabhu.
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| Elizabeth Woo |
Poxel biopharmaceutical company hires Elizabeth Woo as senior vice president, investor relations, public relations and corporate communications. Based in the Boston area, Woo will also work closely with members of the company’s Lyon, France-based leadership team. She previously served as senior vice president, investor relations and corporate communications at Flex Pharma, and was vice president, investor relations at Biogen. Woo has also advised, through her investor relations consulting practice, privately held and publicly traded biotech companies. “Elizabeth has a long history of working with the biotechnology financial community and a strong track record of raising the visibility to help build successful biopharmaceutical companies in the US,” said Poxel CEO Thomas Kuhn.
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| Lindsey Irvine |
Benchling, a software company focused on the biotech industry, appoints Lindsey Irvine as chief marketing officer. Irvine comes to Benchling from Salesforce, where she spent eight years, most recently as global CMO of MuleSoft, the company’s data integration unit. She has also served as director of strategy and partnerships at the National Institutes of Health, where she launched public-private partnership initiatives with Google, Microsoft and Intel. "Lindsey brings a wealth of expertise in cloud and the enterprise from Salesforce, where she helped them deliver transformational products and solutions to customers around the world," said Benchling CEO and co-founder Sajith Wickramasekara. "Her impressive track record of developing and leading world-class teams through rapid growth is exactly what Benchling needs at this point in our journey.”
DGA Group has added Hilton alum Jonas Neihardt as a senior advisor to bolster its hospitality, travel and tourism offering.
Ed Harnaga, who most recently served as SVP, chief marketing and communications officer at Pfizer, joins Vantage Data Centers, which provides hyperscale data center campuses, in the chief marketing and communications officer spot.
Lucas Public Affairs, a Sacramento-based firm, adds Sallie Poggi, who has worked at both FleishmanHillard and APCO, as a VP. Most recently, Poggi was chief communications officer at the University of the Pacific... Allied Universal, a security and facility services company, brings on Melissa Butler as VP of communications. She was at Burson... Talk Shop Media, a firm that operates in Canada and the U.S., specializing in PR, corporate communications and social media, promotes Stuart Martin to managing director of its U.S West Coast operations.
The Estée Lauder Companies names Madeleine Boyd SVP, global brand communications. Most recently, she served as global SVP, beauty & wellness at Together Group... Cohen & Steers, a global investment manager specializing in real assets and alternative income, names Erik Schneberger as EVP, chief marketing officer... CooperVision, a contact lens company, brings on former Bayer VP Brenda Raphael as VO of marketing, Americas.
Edelman names United Entertainment Group CEO Jarrod Moses as vice chairman. Moses will continue in his role at UEG... Burson brings on Matthew Wagner, who was most recently global client relationship manager and energy sector lead at Edelman, as EVP and global client leader... The Key PR appoints Jodi Maroney as principal. Maroney joins the agency after a 25-year run at Access Brand Communications.
