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| Jennifer Brantley |
MP&F Strategic Communications names Jennifer Brantley managing partner. Brantley joined MP&F in 1992 and became a partner in 2017. She works with clients across the Southeast in industries including health care, insurance, senior living, and public and private utilities. Brantley succeeds Alice Chapman, who died in November. “Jennifer brings nearly 30 years of providing top-quality client service and has been instrumental in guiding the firm’s internal culture,” said MP&F partner Katy Varney.
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| Craig Berman |
E-commerce platform fabric appoints Craig Berman as its first SVP of corporate marketing. Berman was most recently an outside advisor to the company. He was previously VP, global communications at Amazon and also served as head of PR and publicity for Prime Video/Amazon Studios. Before that, he was a SVP at MWW. At fabric, Berman will be responsible for public relations, social media and content creation, reporting to CMO Karen Brewer. “We have an amazing story here at fabric, and having worked with Craig for years at Amazon, I know he is the right person to help us tell it,” said fabric CEO Faisal Masud.
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| Juanita Washington |
The Girl Scouts of Western New York brings on Juanita Washington as EVP of marketing and communications. Washington previously served as director of marketing and communications for Jordan Health in Rochester, NY, leading the organization’s COVID communications initiatives. In her new position, she will oversee internal and external communications as well as the council’s brand and marketing initiatives. “Juanita is a strategic thinker and proactive leader who has developed and implemented successful comprehensive communications and public relations strategies,” said Girl Scouts of Western New York CEO Alison Wilcox.
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| Wayne Leonard |
Gaming and e-sports agency OS Studios hires Wayne Leonard as head of accounts. Leonard was most recently vice president, account director for gaming and esports at George P. Johnson Experience Marketing. Earlier in his career, he was part of the production team that launched the first PlayStation. At OS Studios, Leonard will be the liaison between the agency and such clients as Twitch, Nexon, Konami and eMLS. OS Studios CEO John Higgins said that Leonard has “an extremely rich and expansive history in gaming activations in North America.”
Steve Rice, who served as director of political mobilization for Boeing, joins DC-based bipartisan public affairs and strategic communications firm The Herald Group as SVP, overseeing its grasstops and 50-state field operations. 
Qorvis has named Victor Shiblie senior advisor to boost its international network and global business opportunities.
Pierre DuBois has taken the VP-public affairs post at AIB Data Centers, developer of the digital infrastructure for AI hosting and high-performance computing workloads.
Allison Worldwide names Victoria Brophy EVP, head of corporate and technology in Europe. Brophy comes to the firm from Golin Ketchum London, where as EVP she built and led the London Corporate Affairs practice... 
Signal Group, a DC-based public affairs firm, hires Josie Feron as director. Feron was most recently communications director for the Office of Congresswoman Deborah Ross (D-NC)... Moburst, a mobile-first digital agency driven by a proprietary AI program, appoints Etgar Shpivak as VP of marketing... Howard University hires Jasmine Gurley as senior director of public relations in the Office of University Communications.
