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| Kate Rouch |
OpenAI hires Coinbase chief marketing officer Kate Rouch as its first CMO. At Coinbase, where Rouch came on as its first CMO in August 2021, she led all of the company’s marketing and PR functions. She was previously VP, global head of brand and product marketing as Meta, spending more than a decade at the company. A Dec. 3 post from OpenAI on X said that “her experience across consumer and enterprise marketing will shape how we connect people to the transformative power of AI.”
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| Cara Donatto |
Atlantic Music Group names Cara Donatto EVP of media strategy, tasked with overseeing the company’s publicity and communications strategy and execution. Donatto returns to Atlantic from Interscope Geffen A&M, where she had been head of media strategy & communications since 2019. In her previous stint at Atlantic, Donatto was SVP of publicity. She has also served as director of media & artist relations at Island Def Jam Records. At AMG, Donatto will work with artists across the company’s roster and label brands. “She’s played an essential role in the long-term development of a string of chart-topping artists, while building invaluable relationships at every level of the music and media community,” said Atlantic Music Group CEO Elliot Grainge.
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| George Brady |
Stagwell promotes George Brady to CEO of its The People Platform unit, which combines mobile intelligence with mapping technology, consumer surveys and other third-party data to provide mobility insights, location intelligence and audience measurement services. Brady previously served as The People Platform’s president and chief revenue officer. Before joining the company in 2020, he spent over two decades at Nielsen, holding positions including VP of client solutions on-location and VP of sales, TV/cable and digital out of home. "George has long been a trailblazer in delivering game-changing insights to brands, and we're thrilled to support the next chapter of his visionary leadership,” said Stagwell Marketing Cloud CEO Elspeth Rollert.
MMGY Global, which works with clients in the travel, tourism and hospitality sectors, promotes Justin Farmer to chief growth officer, a newly created role at the firm... Golin names Alexandra Ladas VP, global AI integration... Manifest brings on Richard Titus as non-executive director for US operations... Century Golf Partners, a golf course ownership and management firm hires Amy Spittle as VP of marketing. 
160over90 names EVPs Jessica Sinn, Justin Zambuto and Ryan Brown to jointly lead the Endeavor-owned cultural marketing agency... ERM, a specialist sustainability consultancy, brings on Emily Luscombe as partner. She was at Britain's Instinctif Partners... BizCom Associates promotes Dan Wiley to creative director... Xometry, an AI-driven marketplace that connects enterprise buyers with suppliers of manufacturing services, appoints Stephany Verstraete as CMO.
French/West/Vaughan hires Hulu's Caroline Newberry as AVP, social media & influencer marketing... Matter Communications promotes Grace Torrance to SVP... McNeely Brockman Public Relations adds Amanda Reinbold as a senior advisor and Rachel Wood as its first creative director... Litera, which provides legal technology solutions, appoints Cynthia Gumbert as CMO.
Brunswick Group has hired Kate Bedingfield, who was Joe Biden’s communications director, as a partner in its DC office.
Prosek Partners brings on former Blackstone senior managing director Stephen Lewis as a partner in its London office.
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