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| Seth Faison |
Seth Faison, who did a five-year stint as managing director of Sitrick And Company’s New York office, has joined Brunswick Group as partner in its freshly minted China hub.
Prior to working at Mike Sitrick’s Los Angeles-based crisis shop, Faison headed the New York Times’ Shanghai bureau and served as Beijing correspondent for the South China Morning Post, where he covered the Tiananmen Square massacre.
More recently, he was head of communications for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Geneva.
Andy Browne, who spent 35 years reporting from Asia as China editor for the Wall Street Journal and Asia-Pacific News editor for Thomson Reuters, rejoins Brunswick as head of its China hub.
He was previously at Brooklyn-headquartered Bloomberg New Economy Forum, where he was editorial director. Browne served as partner for Brunswick in Beijing from 2007 to 2009.
The China hub is to bring together the firm’s full suite of experience and understanding of key issues impacting the country so it can better serve its clients, according to CEO Nel Wolin.
Whit Clay, who exited the Co-CEO slot at Sloane & Co. 18 months ago to head Longacre Square Partners’ New York office, has been promoted to serve as the first CEO of the financial communication shop.
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Eitan Bencuya, who has more than 20 years of technology PR experience, has signed on with Brunswick Group as a partner in its San Francisco office.
DGA Group has lined up the former US ambassadors to Qatar and Saudi Arabia as senior advisors to help clients navigate that politically complex region.
Narrative Strategies names Adam Silverstein as managing director in New York. Silverstein was most recently head of media relations & thought leadership at Scient Public Relations... Mission North brings on Alex Hunter as EVP of health and innovation... Baird & Warner, a family-owned independent real estate services company that serves the Chicago area, appoints Jeanette Cutler as CMO.
