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| Spenser Blank |
OnePlus names Spenser Blank director of PR and communications, North America. Before joining the company as a senior communications manager last year, Blank was at Ogilvy Asia as regional senior consultant, PR and influence. In his new post, he will be leading all external affairs and working to increase the brand's presence and product portfolio of smartphones and IoT products. “We are very confident that given Spenser's experience and his knowledge in consumer and smartphone/IoT tech, he will continue to help grow our brand's presence in the United States and Canada," said OnePlus North America CEO Robin Liu.
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| Emily Westgate |
Signal AI promotes Emily Westgate to chief marketing officer. Westgate has been vice president of marketing at the company since 2019. Before coming to Signal AI, she was vice president, global marketing at global adtech company Criteo and marketing director EMEA & JAOAC at Oracle. At Signal AI, Westgate has been key in creating the company’s strategic marketing function, and driving its marketing vision. “Emily is a global marketing leader with over 20 years of technology marketing experience and a very strong track record of leading high performing B2B marketing teams,” said Signal AI co-founder and CEO David Benigson.
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| Jason McClelland, Christopher Wilson |
Shutterstock brings on Jason McClelland as chief marketing officer and Christopher “Skip” Wilson as vice president of brand marketing. McClelland has held leadership roles at SaaS leaders Adobe and Salesforce, in addition to serving as CMO at startups Algolia, Domino Data Lab and Heroku. Wilson comes to Shutterstock from Peloton, where he led global brand and communications for the company’s commercial business. He will be responsible for Shutterstock's global brand strategy. "Throughout their careers, Jason and Skip have demonstrated the ability to lead and scale global business expansion, develop and implement growth strategies and drive the execution needed for hyperscale," said Shutterstock CEO Stan Pavlovsky.




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Nick Mammano, who was president/CEO of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, has rejoined Mercury Public Affairs as a managing director in its Saddle Brook office.
Seven Letter hires Allie Raffa, who was most recently White House correspondent for NBC News, as a senior director... Points of Light, an organization founded by President George H.W. Bush that is dedicated to volunteer service, names Jeff Zanelli as CMO... Frontieras North America, an energy and environmental technology company, appoints Nora Shepard as VP of communications.
Alcoa has named Emily Olson, who has more than 20 years of experience working in capital-intensive industries in the Americas, Europe and Asia, EVP & chief external affairs officer, effective April 6.



