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| Michael Heinley |
FINN Partners promotes senior partner Michael Heinley to global head of client engagement & growth in the health practice. Before joining FINN in 2016, Heinley was VP, corporate communication at WebMD. He has also held senior positions at Johnson & Johnson and Merck. In his new role, Heinley will lead initiatives that focus on quality and providing access to FINN’s integrated services, global resources and teams. He is responsible for driving new and organic growth opportunities, providing senior counsel and serving as a relationship leader for health client engagements. He will report to FINN global health practice lead and managing partner Fern Lazar. “Collaboration is a behavior and a process that unlocks people’s greatest potential. That’s what clients want from an agency – the best in creativity and ability applied to their urgent needs. Michael’s appointment is a reaffirmation of FINN commitment to be amazing,” said FINN global health chair Gil Bashe.
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| Kristin Sommers |
Bospar hires Kristin Sommers as VP. Sommers was most recently a SVP and co-general manager at Braya Agency. She has also worked at Weber Shandwick, MWWPR and Ogilvy & Mather. At Bospar, Sommers will co-lead strategy and programming for the agency’s B2B SaaS, HR tech, martech and adtech clients, as well as identifying growth opportunities for the agency. “She brings a valued skill set and expertise to the team, and we are so delighted she has joined Bospar,” said Bospar principal and co-founder Curtis Sparrer.
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| Dawn Weston |
Red Fan Communications appoints Dawn Weston as VP of client success. Weston comes to the agency from Austin Woman magazine, where she was publisher. Before that, she was associate publisher at Edible Austin. In addition to leading Red Fan’s client success division, Weston will lead its business development efforts. “Whether it’s a brand in need of a media relations campaign or a CEO in need of executive positioning, Dawn’s expertise elevates our ability to provide our clients with even more creativity and the highest-quality service,” said Red Fan president and founder Kathleen Lucente.
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| Steve Greig |
Fundbox, an AI-powered financial platform for small businesses, brings on Steve Greig as CMO. Greig joins the company from Visa, where he most recently served as VP of global marketing. Before coming to Visa, he was head of consumer marketing at The Heineken Company, where he led a team to build customer and consumer demand for brands including Foster’s, Beck’s and Newcastle Brown Ale. In his new post, Greig will lead Fundbox’s brand, product and growth marketing and communications functions.
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Brittany Sullivan, who held the senior VP-executive director of marketing post at Golin, has moved to Burson.
Codeword brings on Melody Brue and Jess Graham as part of a push to bolster its capabilities in market intelligence and commercial strategy... Havas Edge, which specializes in data-driven media, creative and customer acquisition strategies, for health, tech, consumer, retail and financial brands, promotes Pam Caputo to EVP, health media... Rezolve Ai, the London-based developer of Brain Suite, an enterprise AI platform purpose-built for agentic commerce, appoints Michele Fisher as CMO.
Jamie Dowd, who was most recently president of the health practice in the Americas at Weber Shandwick, comes on board at Allison Worldwide as global president, health + wellness, effective June 22.
Burson is bringing on Hanover managing director, Middle East Jonty Summers as head of corporate affairs in Dubai at the end of June... Ridgepost Capital, which had over $45 billion in assets under management as of March 31, names Brian McKenna VP, investor relations, effective June 15... The Center for AI Safety appoints Rochelle Nadhiri as head of public engagement. 
