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| Richard Silverman |
Rubenstein Public Relations hires Richard Silverman, a veteran of Merrill Lynch, Lazard, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Burson-Marsteller and Dow Jones Indexes, as a senior VP. Silverman will work to sustain RPR's service offerings in media relations, branding, and messaging development.”Rich's deep experience in corporate communications and financial journalism makes him a perfect fit for our team," said Richard Rubenstein, president of RPR. "His strategic acumen and strong leadership skills will be instrumental in further elevating our clients' brands and achieving the highest level of media exposure.”
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| Bri Kelly |
Thompson & Co. Public Relations promotes Bri Kelly to VP. Kelly has been with the agency since 2011, most recently serving as a senior account manager, providing strategic communications counsel to clients in Alaska’s travel and leisure industries. In her new role, she will continue to manage agency clients including John Hall’s Alaska and Travel Juneau; and build on national media outreach opportunities with ATIA while working with T&C’s sister agency Blueprint Alaska, providing project management on integrated communication campaigns and strategic communications work for resource clients including Donlin Gold. “She has the experience and the wherewithal to achieve great things, and the entire agency will continue to support her in this new role,” said T&C president and CEO Jennifer Thompson.
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| David Mickle, Ben Hewitt |
Waterhouse Brands, a boutique marketing agency that works with life sciences companies, brings on David Mickle as chief client officer and Ben Hewitt as managing director, creative and digital services. Mickle was most recently executive director, account management for Havas San Francisco, overseeing accounts and brand engagements with companies including BioMarin, Genentech, Sanofi and AbbVie. At Waterhouse, he will focus on product and disease communications, as well as agency team development. Hewett has built and led cross-functional teams for such agencies as Havas, Y Media Labs and HDMZ, as well as for Apple, Google, PayPal and DocuSign. In his new post, he will partner internally and externally to identify, design and deploy technology and multi-media solutions.
Casey Hernandez, who rose to the senior VP for global corporate communications post at Herbalife, has joined Seven Letter strategic communications shop in its DC office.
James Byrne, a former New York Police Department detective who led the executive communications team for commissioner Edward Caban, will join the Secret Service on May 20.
Signal Group promotes Julian Graham to director and Vinny Sheu to director of creative content... Bevel appoints Libbie Wilcox as director of its New York office and lead of its alternative asset practice... Feldman Strategies names Chloe Barr communications manager. She was at Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Lylis.
Stephanie Heise, who worked for Brunswick Group in New York, San Francisco and Beijing, has joined Invariant’s strategic communications and PA team.
WE Communications hires Edelman's Aidan Ryan as SVP, crisis and issues management... Coldwell Banker Real Estate brings on Brandon Newman as VP of marketing... FullSpeed Automotive, home to brands Grease Monkey, SpeeDee Oil Change & Auto Service and Kwik Kar, names Stacey Pool as CMO, effective May 28.
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