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| April Dang |
Crosswind Media & Public Relations promotes April Dang to general manager. Dang has served as the agency’s manager of operations for the past five years, and before that she spent 20 years in global finance and banking. In her new role, April Dang will assume management responsibilities for all agency operations, manage project execution, direct team performance across the company's Texas offices, and monitor financial strategies and profitability. "April Dang has brought to our agency extensive experience in sales, marketing, recruitment, credit underwriting and auditing,” said Crosswind founder and CEO Thomas Graham. Her skills quickly made us a tooled and capable world-class competitor and helped us land key contracts in public relations and marketing.”
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| Aly Nesson |
Stratacomm LLC, a DC-based integrated communications agency operating in 15 states, hires Aly Nesson as director of people and culture. Nesson joins the agency from Double, a company that leverages AI technology to provide remote assistants for executive support, where she served as head of people. She was previously director of human resources for social good software company Bonterra Tech. Nessan is also a seasoned mergers and acquisitions professional, committed to advancing DEI, and experienced in culture development and integration. “She understands both business and people and her approach perfectly aligns with our focus on scaling up the agency while staying true to our bedrock company values,” said Stratacomm managing partner John Fitzpatrick.
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| Leslie Olsen |
Ontra, which provides AI-powered legal technology solutions for private capital investment firms, brings on Leslie Olsen as CMO. Before joining Ontra, Leslie was global chief marketing officer at C2FO, an on-demand working capital platform, where she led a global rebrand, launched multiple product lines, and built and scaled the enterprise ABM program. She previously led marketing teams at Fundbox and Medrio. At Ontra, Olsen will oversee strategic marketing for the company’s Legal Operating System, which leverages artificial intelligence to automate critical legal workflows across fundraising, portfolio investment, and fund operations. “Leslie has an impressive track record of leading and developing talented marketing teams for high-growth companies,” said Ontra CEO and founder Troy Pospisil. “She deeply understands both the art and science of effective marketing and knows how to pair customer empathy with data-driven insights to deliver outstanding results.”
Seven Letter hires Allie Raffa, who was most recently White House correspondent for NBC News, as a senior director... Points of Light, an organization founded by President George H.W. Bush that is dedicated to volunteer service, names Jeff Zanelli as CMO... Frontieras North America, an energy and environmental technology company, appoints Nora Shepard as VP of communications.
Alcoa has named Emily Olson, who has more than 20 years of experience working in capital-intensive industries in the Americas, Europe and Asia, EVP & chief external affairs officer, effective April 6.
Longacre Square Partners has named Humza Vanderman partner and head of its London outpost as the financial communications firm expands into Europe.
FGS Global adds former Pfizer EVP and chief corporate affairs officer Sally Susman to its global executive board as an independent member, effective April 1... Codeword brings on Kim Baffi, who was previously Salesforce VP and creative director, as executive creative director... Amperity, an AI-powered customer data cloud, appoints Bridget Perry as CMO.
MOIA America, a Volkswagen Group of America subsidiary that develops and tests autonomous, all-electric ride-pooling vehicles, names Marcus Gamo head of U.S. communications... Continental Strategy brings on Francisco Petrirena as VP in its Miami office. Petrirena was previously chief of staff to former Miami city manager Art Noriega... MSQ Sport + Entertainment brings on Lauren Weil as EVP, Max Hirsch as VP of sponsorship, and Brooke Losee as VP.
