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| Darren Brandt |
Sloane & Company names Darren Brandt as sole CEO of the firm. Brandt previously served as co-CEO alongside Whit Clay, who has left the firm to lead the New York office of Longacre Square Partners. Before taking the co-CEO post at Sloane, Brandt was managing director. He will now be responsible for driving the company's growth strategy. Sloane has also brought on Melissa Green as the agency’s first chief growth officer and promoted Ariel Kouvaras to senior managing director. Green was most recently global co-head of strategic client development at Lazard. She has also worked at Rational 360 and Goldman Sachs. At Sloane, she will be responsible for further invigorating the agency’s strategic direction. Kouvaras, has been with Sloane for nearly a decade, most recently serving as managing director. She will continue to drive Sloane's intelligence and marketing platforms with a focus on strategy and innovation.
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| Margaret Irons |
BeyondID, a managed identity solutions provider, hires Margaret Irons as CMO. Irons most recently led Salt & Butter Marketing, a boutique agency providing marketing expertise to startup and growth stage companies. She was previously VP and global head of marketing and communications at software developer 3Pillar Global. At Beyond ID, Irons will oversee the company’s global marketing strategy, brand positioning and demand generation efforts. “Margaret is a dynamic marketing leader with a deep understanding of how to scale technology brands and drive measurable impact,” said Arun Shrestha, CEO and co-founder of BeyondID.
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| (L-R) Catherine McNally, Colleen McCarthy, Adam Blacker |
Digital Brands, a digital media company, appoints Catherine McNally, Colleen McCarthy and Adam Blacker as PR directors. McNally, who will serve as PR director for Digital Brands’ finance vertical, most recently worked as a communications consultant specializing in consumer storytelling and thought leadership strategy. She was previously PR director at educational technology company BYJU’S. McCarthy will be PR director for the lifestyle brands under the Digital Brands umbrella. She has led public relations efforts for consumer lifestyle brands and has served as head of PR, North America, for Lovehoney Group. Blacker, PR director for Digital Brands’ technology vertical, previously served as the director of content & communications at data intelligence platform Apptopia. “Their combined expertise in strategic communications and thought leadership will be instrumental as we continue to elevate our brands and drive meaningful engagement with both consumers and industry leaders,” said Digital Brands president Ryan Frankel.
The National Association of Corporate Directors has named Brunswick Group veteran Mohamed Younis senior VP of content.
Highwire names Kelly Losko as CFO. Losko joins the agency from OLIVER Agency, where she was CFO, North America... TCW, a Los-Angeles based financial services company, brings on Lindsay DeLarme as global head of marketing & communications. DeLarme previously spending 13 years at Oaktree Capital, most recently serving as head of marketing and communications... o9 Solutions, developer of the “Digital Brain,” names Adriel Sanchez CMO, a newly created position at the company. 
HUNTER promotes Gigi García Russo to president and Michael Lamp to chief digital & transformation officer.... Cars.com Inc. a car-shopping marketplace, names Sarah Kettler CMO, effective June 15...The Trade Desk, an advertising tech company, appoints Sarah Gavin as CMO and EVP.
Brittany Sullivan, who held the senior VP-executive director of marketing post at Golin, has moved to Burson.
Codeword brings on Melody Brue and Jess Graham as part of a push to bolster its capabilities in market intelligence and commercial strategy... Havas Edge, which specializes in data-driven media, creative and customer acquisition strategies, for health, tech, consumer, retail and financial brands, promotes Pam Caputo to EVP, health media... Rezolve Ai, the London-based developer of Brain Suite, an enterprise AI platform purpose-built for agentic commerce, appoints Michele Fisher as CMO.
