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| Cabe Franklin |
Cabe Franklin, global director of client communications at McKinsey & Co., will join Brunswick Group on April 4 as partner, client services. He will be based in New York.
During his 10-year stint at the consulting firm, Franklin headed internal PR, helped transform McKinsey’s communications culture from an overreliance on PowerPoint, bolstered its success rate in competitive pitches and led the global remote working initiative from March-August 2020 to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Earlier, he founded Editorial Strategies, served as communications director at Hero Capital and held account executive posts at Porter Novelli and Ogilvy PR.
Neal Wolin, Brunswick CEO, said Franklin’s “deep experience in client and colleague engagement, and strategy consulting will be meaningfully additive to our clients and colleagues globally.”
Brittney Basden, who led public affairs and advocacy partnerships at the Washington Post has joined Bully Pulpit International as a managing director.
The DUX Group, a Washington, D.C.-based strategic communications firm that works with leaders in highly regulated industries, names Lauren Boland as VP... Workday, an enterprise AI platform for HR, finance and IT, names Sarah Kennedy Ellis CMO, effective Oct. 5. Kennedy Ellis joins the company from Google... Octave Specialty Group, a global specialty insurance firm, brings on Philip Stefano as managing director, head of investor relations. 
Michele Ziosi will rejoin Stellantis on Oct. 1 as chief PA officer responsible for Enlarged Europe and for the global coordination of the carmaker’s PA activities.
Inizio, which works with clients in the health and life sciences sectors, appoints Oisín Ó Gógáin as chief people officer... The Boston Beer Company names Allison Stransky CMO, effective Oct. 12. Stransky was previuosly VP and CMO at Samsung Electronics America... Newark Regional Business Partnership and its 501(c)(3) affiliate, the Renaissance Newark Foundation, bring on Kim Lewis-Collins as VP, marketing and business development, a newly created role. 
Carmichael Lynch president and manager Julie Batliner is joining Padilla as president, succeeding Matt Kuchariski. Kucharski will transition to a fractional role with the agency as an executive counselor through the end of the year.
