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| Matt Dornic |
Under Armour signs up Matt Dornic, who was SVP, communications at CNN, as chief communications officer. Dornic had also served as CNN’s head of strategic communications. He exited the network after a notorious profile of former CEO Chris Licht in The Atlantic. Dornic will replace Under Armour comms chief Jen Smith, who is moving to the head spot in the company’s human resources department. “Having known Matt for several years, I am confident that his leadership will strengthen our communications function and amplify Under Armour’s voice around the world,” Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank wrote in an internal email that was shared with Semafor.
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| Joanne Southern |
Fried Frank, a legal firm with 800 lawyers across offices in New York; Washington, DC; London; Frankfurt and Brussels, brings on Joanne Southern as CMO. Southern was most recently CMO at Proskauer Rose. Before that, she was Fried Frank’s director of business development. In her new post, Southern will be tasked with further evolving Fried Frank’s marketing & business development department. “Jo is an excellent leader who will bring strategic vision and talent together to execute innovative initiatives for the firm and our clients,” said Fried Frank vice chairman and co-chair of its securities and shareholder litigation practice Scott B. Luftglass.
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| Kim Lauber |
Macmillan Publishers hires Kim Lauber in the newly created role of SVP of consumer insights, marketing and analytics, effective May 19. Lauber will join Macmillan from Abrams, where she is VP of marketing. She was previously director of marketing at Random House Children’s Books and associate director of children’s marketing and publicity at Chronicle Books. At Macmillan, Lauber will lead the publisher’s consumer insights, marketing and analytics team as well as working with its divisional marketing and corporate shared services groups to drive its evolution in consumer engagement, insights and all aspects of data-focused performance marketing.
Greg Honan, who worked in the Biden White House as director of message planning and chief of staff for its office of communications, is joining public affairs firm Seven Letter as a managing director.
David Bassity, who was VP for football communications for the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons, will join the Big Ten Conference on July 20.
BPCM brings on former Prada SVP marketing & communications Christian Langbein as its EVP of growth and strategy, a newly created role... MikeWorldWide names Joseph Sorrentino as its first chief intelligence officer. Sorrentino joins from Weber Shandwick, where he was EVP, analytics & intelligence... Pacers Sports & Entertainment, which operates the NBA’s Indiana Pacers and WNBA’s Indiana Fever, hires Kieran Donahue as EVP and CMO. Donahue has served as chief marketing officer at IHOP and VP, brand, marketing & digital for the Americas at Marriott... Ballast Rock Asset Management, a diversified alternative investment manager, appoints Michael Welch as head of investor relations and capital formation.
Renault Group brings on Paul Michon as corporate communications director, effective Sept. 1. He joins from Kering, the luxury goods marketer.
SKDK makes Loren Riegelhaupt, Michael Czin and Julie Andreeff Jensen agency partners... Coca-Cola Company promotes Gary McElyea to lead its pan-European Public Policy & Government Affairs agenda, and Sophia Chrysopoulou to serve as head of EU public affairs... Rithum, a commerce solutions provider, appoints Kim Miller as CMO and head of global strategy. 
