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| Jeff Joseph |
Jeff Joseph, who has more than 30 years of strategic communications & PA experience, will join BCW on August 8 as president of its Washington office.
He succeeds Michael Fleischer.
Joseph spent the past three years as president of the Software & Information Industry Assn.
Earlier, he was senior VP-communications & strategic partnerships at the Consumer Technology Assn., VP-communications at the Biotechnology Industry Assn. and VP-communications & strategic relations as at the Consumer Electronics Assn.
He also had an 11-year run at Ogilvy PR.
Mary Corcoran, BCW North America president, called Joseph a world-class strategist. “Jeff is also deeply committed to building diverse, representative teams and leading an environment in which talent can thrive,” she said.
WPP owns BCW.
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