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| Dean Heacock |
Bastion U.S. names Dean Heacock COO and CFO. Heacock has held financial leadership positions at more than a dozen marketing groups, including WPP, Wunderman Thompson and Young & Rubicam. His role at Bastion will focus on acquisition assessment and due diligence as well as operational management and human resources. “His skills in the financial realm are world-class when it comes to expanding marketing organizations,” said Bastion U.S. CEO Dax Cornelius. Bastion U.S. is part of Bastion Agency, Australasia’s largest independent agency, with more than 360 employees working across offices located in Los Angeles, Orange County, New York City, Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland.
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| Robert Cavosi |
RooneyPartners promotes Robert Cavosi to senior managing director. Cavosi has been with the agency since 2015, most recently serving as managing director. Prior to joining RooneyPartners, Mr. Cavosi ran the financial services practice at IMRE, and previously was an SVP at Ogilvy PR, helping to manage the firm’s corporate practice. He has also held communications roles at companies including J.P. Morgan Chase, KeyBank and Pearson, and he was a staff member of the proxy firm D.F. King. “Bob brings an extraordinary work ethic combined with a savvy PR strategist’s mentality to each and every facet of client engagement, ensuring our media-relations programs are generating substantive results and he extends an equally impressive level of energy to the pursuit of new business for RooneyPartners,” said agency founder and CEO Terry Rooney.
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| Iván Briones |
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists appoints Iván Briones as director of communications. Briones previously served as the City Editor of SATXtoday, a media outlet serving the San Antonio, TX area. Briones will oversee internal communications with NAHJ’s membership, regional leaders and both professional and student chapters across the continental U.S. and Puerto Rico. The organization has also hired Tapiz Media Group as their agency of record for communications and social media.
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. 
