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The Boundless Life Sciences Group, part of the Next Practices Group, launches Boundless AI, a new agency centered on how AI will reinvent marketing. Boundless AI is being led by Tim O’Sullivan, who has served as a principal at Capgemini Invent and VP, account director at Real Chemistry’s 21GRAMS unit. The new agency will work to build AI-enabled services and solutions, combining the current innovations being carried out by NPG Healthcare’s data science, media, analytics and AI modeling teams. “Innovation requires having the right ingredients and the expertise to accompany it,” said NPG founder and CEO Bob Pearson. “The future of healthcare innovation requires equal knowledge of science, software, security and storytelling to create meaningful products and services.”
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Matter Communications is sponsoring a Sept. 7 webinar that will focus on helping brands stand out and authentically connect with Gen Z consumers, the largest, most racially and ethnically diverse generation, with an unprecedented $360 billion in spending power. “Reaching Gen Z: The New Rules of Consumer PR” will uncover several behaviors that Gen Zers share when it comes to media consumption, brand loyalty and spending power. It will be led by Matter EVP Matt Mendolera-Schamann and account director Katie Young. The webinar runs from 12 to 12:30 p.m. and there is no charge.
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Winger Marketing president Karolyn Raphael is named director of public relations for the American Marketing Association Chicago. Raphael previously served as VP of communications for the organization's volunteer board of directors. Raphael will lead AMA Chicago’s public relations campaign and Winger Marketing will execute the campaign strategies as an in-kind sponsor. "We are grateful for Karolyn's continued service to the board of directors of AMA Chicago," said the organization’s executive director, Bonnie Massa. "She has demonstrated a willingness to volunteer her time, talents and leadership to continue developing marketers individually and as a larger profession." AMA Chicago provides ongoing development opportunities for Chicagoland marketers to expand knowledge, improve skills, and grow careers through access to innovative marketing thought leaders and cutting-edge programming.
Page launches the Polansky Future Leaders Fund, which was established through a gift from 2025 Page Hall of Fame inductee and former Weber Shandwick Global CEO Andy Polansky... Ruder Finn reintroduces its website, ruderfinn.com, which will now feature a large language model (LLM) as its primary user interface... Higher Plane Media is launched by former Sloane & Company CEO Darren Brandt.
Champion, which specializes in restaurant, franchise and consumer brands, opens a Miami office, adding to its operations in Dallas and Los Angeles... Violet PR, a Montclair, NJ-based firm that focuses on economic development, commercial real estate and place branding, opens a second office on Park Avenue South in New York... Inflection Point, a founder-led, senior growth systems partner for startups and growth-stage businesses, launches... PRSA announces the recipients of its inaugural Women of Impact Awards. Honorees honorees were recognized during the PRSA Women of Impact Summit & Awards at the Union League Club of Chicago.
FleishmanHillard is shuttering its 20-member Dublin office as Omnicom Public Relations reorganizes its global operations... Vested acquires Watermark, a D.C.-based public affairs and special situations firm.... Matter earns two Pinnacle Awards 2026 Marketing & Communications honors for its clients.
Quad/Graphics launches Direct, a Quad Agency to help marketers create, execute and measure direct marketing campaigns in one connected offering... InnoVision Marketing Group SVP/senior creative director Giselle Campos and SVP/general manager Alanna Markey are among the first-ever winners of the San Diego Business Journal’s Indispensables Awards, which recognizes professionals who make the greatest impact within their organizations and across the San Diego business community... Park Place Technologies, an IT infrastructure services firm that works with Feintuch Communications, releases the second episode of its “The Savvy CIO” podcast. 
Ripley PR is named a silver winner in the TITAN American Business Awards’ Outstanding PR Campaign category... Excellera, a corporate-advisory firm, came in at number one in deal count, as well as fourth in deal value, in Mergermarket’s list of top EMEA firms... Thunderly is telling the stories of military veterans who transferred the discipline, organization and leadership skills developed in service to their country into successful post-military careers as franchise business owners, as part of its year-long "American Dreamers: The Stories of Franchising" effort.
