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| Edwige Buteau |
Goodman Media International brings on Edwige Buteau as vice president. Most recently, Buteau served as the head of public relations at Gift of Life Marrow Registry. She previously ran her own consultancy, Spot PR. She was a senior managing director at RF|Binder, where she led campaigns for Fortune 500 companies, non-profit and government clients in areas such as consumer packaged goods, health and wellness, beauty, automotive, food, energy, economic development and technology. At GMI, she will lead such activities as national consumer and trade media outreach, strategic messaging and executive positioning.
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| Cassandra Sweet |
Antenna Group appoints former Wall Street Journal senior energy reporter and editor Cassandra Sweet, vice president of cleantech. Sweet was most recently a vice president at Mission Control Communications, overseeing public relations, marketing and brand building activities for early-stage climate tech and mobility startups and investors. She has also worked at Singer Associates and Technica Communications. In her new position, Sweet will play a key role in advising a portfolio of Antenna’s cleantech clients on their communications strategy. “Cassandra brings invaluable messaging and thought leadership insights to our team and will better enable us to deliver maximum impact for our clients,” said Antenna CEO Keith Zakheim.
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| Florence Lochrane, Jennifer Forester |
Crosby Marketing Communications hires Florence Lochrane as social media supervisor and Jennifer Forester as social media manager. Lochrane most recently served as communications manager for renewable energy company Enviva Biomass, where she led all social media strategies, content planning and community management. Before that, she managed the communication outreach and digital diplomacy campaigns for the Embassy of Switzerland in Washington, D.C. Forester was previously digital media coordinator at The Children’s Inn at NIH, a nonprofit that provides residential services for children and young adults participating in NIH clinical research studies.
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.
