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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.
Qorvis has named Victor Shiblie senior advisor to boost its international network and global business opportunities.
Pierre DuBois has taken the VP-public affairs post at AIB Data Centers, developer of the digital infrastructure for AI hosting and high-performance computing workloads.
Allison Worldwide names Victoria Brophy EVP, head of corporate and technology in Europe. Brophy comes to the firm from Golin Ketchum London, where as EVP she built and led the London Corporate Affairs practice... 
Signal Group, a DC-based public affairs firm, hires Josie Feron as director. Feron was most recently communications director for the Office of Congresswoman Deborah Ross (D-NC)... Moburst, a mobile-first digital agency driven by a proprietary AI program, appoints Etgar Shpivak as VP of marketing... Howard University hires Jasmine Gurley as senior director of public relations in the Office of University Communications.
Christina Hoggatt, who has directed strategic communications for the U.S. Space Command and U.S. Space Force, joins HawkEye360, a provider of domain awareness and early-warning indicators to the U.S. Government and allied partners, as SVP, global communications.
