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| Susan Klein |
VisitPittsburgh names Susan Klein chief marketing officer. Klein was most recently head of content marketing at Doublespace. She also founded San Francisco-based Oculus Marketing and served as head of marketing communications and visitor services for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. "Susan is a dynamic marketer with a high level of success building and executing multi-channel, business-to-business and business-to-consumer campaigns that are driven by analytics," said VisitPittsburgh president & CEO Jerad Bachar.
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| Sonia Grunbaum |
Luquire appoints Sonia Grunbaum as senior vice president of business development. Grunbaum comes to the agency after 19 years at Zimmerman Advertising, where she most recently served as vice president of marketing. Prior to joining Zimmerman, she served in various account leadership roles at Miguel Chavez & Associates, one of Bolivia's top advertising agencies at the time. "As our first-ever head of business development, Sonia's track record of managing pitches for multi-million-dollar accounts, coupled with her ability to build relationships and open doors that align seamlessly with our agency culture and ethos, made her the ideal person to help us partner with more brands across the country," said Luquire CEO Brooks Luquire.
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| John O'Reilly |
NinjaTrader Group, a provider of software and brokerage services to active traders, hires John O'Reilly as chief marketing officer. O'Reilly was most recently CMO at consumer-credit fintech platform OppFi. He was previously SVP, marketing for OptionsHouse, an options-centric brokerage acquired by E*TRADE in 2016. In his new post, O'Reilly will be responsible for leading NinjaTrader's brand and customer acquisition initiatives. "John's background and success as an executive in high-growth fintech firms will be invaluable," said NinjaTrader CEO Martin Franchi.
Wendy Carhart, who rose to the chief communications, culture & purpose post at Real Chemistry, has moved to the Learning Care Group.
Jeff Reczek, who most recently served as director of CDC Washington at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, is coming on board as a partner at bipartisan health care firm TDY @ FGS Global.
Narrative Strategies brings on Christina Cameron and Jessica Stallone as senior directors... CI&T, a global technology transformation specialist, appoints Sarah Painter as SVP, marketing for EMEA... Avenue Z promotes Annie Zeigler to associate director, based in the firm’s Los Angeles office.
Accenture promotes Rachel Frey to CCO, a newly created role at the company... AMD, a multinational semiconductor company, recruits Salesforce president and CMO Ariel Kelman to serve as its SVP and CMO... L.C. Williams & Associates, which is celebrating 40 years in business, brings Maria Balice back to the firm as EVP to lead its corporate affairs work.
Elevate Communications appoints Scott Bernstein, who has led marketing for the World Wrestling Federation, Hard Rock Cafe and National Amusements, as partner and chief strategy officer... Matter Communications brings on Angela Bonnici as VP, growth and head of the agency’s Boston office... Crosby Marketing Communications promotes Kelsi Fink to associate VP, PR and Laura Flury to associate VP, digital marketing.
