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| Kate Jhaveri |
TikTok hires former NBA chief marketing officer Kate Jhaveri as global head of marketing. The position had been vacant since former Hulu vp, brand and culture marketing Nick Tran left the position in January. Jhaveri has also served as CMO at Twitch (Amazon’s videogame live-streaming platform), head of consumer marketing at Twitter and director of consumer and online marketing at Microsoft. In her new post, she will oversee TikTok’s consumer and brand marketing, and head up the platform’s marketing to content creators.
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| John Alpaugh |
Big Lots, a home discount retailer, names John Alpaugh CMO Alpaugh was most recently CEO at CyberMark, a digital marketing solutions provider, which he sold in June. Before that, he was CMO at PetSmart. In his new position, Alpaugh is responsible for managing the company's brand and marketing strategies and executions. "John has a proven track record of marketing excellence, is a strong collaborator, and possesses a great mix of analytical and practical instincts," said Big Lots president and CEO Bruce Thorn.
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| Jenna Grange |
Snell & Wilmer, a business law firm with more than 450 attorneys practicing in 16 locations throughout the US and in Mexico, hires Jenna Grange as CMO. Grange joins Snell & Wilmer from legal firm Davis Graham & Stubs, where she was also chief marketing officer. She is also marketing & business development regional vice chair for Lex Mundi, a network of independent law firms in more than 125 countries. to provide world-class cross-border legal solutions. “Jenna’s relationship-focused approach in identifying marketing opportunities pairs well with our firm’s longstanding belief that relationships are at the core of providing excellent legal services to our clients,” said Snell & Willner chief operating officer Kyle Day.
HUNTER promotes Gigi García Russo to president and Michael Lamp to chief digital & transformation officer.... Cars.com Inc. a car-shopping marketplace, names Sarah Kettler CMO, effective June 15...The Trade Desk, an advertising tech company, appoints Sarah Gavin as CMO and EVP.
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. 
