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| Cara Duckworth |
USTelecom | The Broadband Association appoints Cara Duckworth as SVP—communications. Duckworth most recently served as chief corporate communications officer at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where she was an advisor to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property. Her previous positions include VP at the Association of American Publishers; SVP, communications at the Recording Industry Association of America; and communications director at the Motion Picture Association of America. “Her experience in government and business—working shoulder to shoulder with innovators, creators and policymakers—adds perspective, insights and experience that will serve our members and the broadband community well,” said USTelecom president and CEO Jonathan Spalter.
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| Jesse Dungan |
Infinite promotes VP Jesse Dungan to EVP. Dungan, who joined Infinite in 2011, has also served as AVP and director of media strategy at the firm. As part of Infinite’s crisis team, he has overseen global client accounts, led business development initiatives and provided mentorship to colleagues. In his new role, he will join Infinite’s leadership team, which includes CEO Jamie Diaferia, president Zach Olsen, and global COO Isabel Podda. “This promotion reflects Jesse’s exceptional leadership, dedication to our clients, and unwavering commitment to the success of Infinite,” said Diaferia.
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| James Whitemore |
Indeed, a job matching and hiring platform, appoints James Whitemore as CMO. Whitemore was most recently chief marketing growth officer at cloud integration platform Celigo. He was previously CMO and EVP at data storage provider NetApp, and has also held executive leadership positions at IBM Europe, Intrado and Sun Microsystems Storage Products Group. At Indeed, Whitemore will lead the platform’s global marketing organization, overseeing brand, industry, category, lifecycle, country and field marketing. “James brings a strong track record of helping business customers thrive through innovative, customer-first marketing,” said Indeed chief revenue officer Maggie Hulce.
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.
Brittany Sullivan, who held the senior VP-executive director of marketing post at Golin, has moved to Burson.
Jamie Dowd, who was most recently president of the health practice in the Americas at Weber Shandwick, comes on board at Allison Worldwide as global president, health + wellness, effective June 22.
Burson is bringing on Hanover managing director, Middle East Jonty Summers as head of corporate affairs in Dubai at the end of June... Ridgepost Capital, which had over $45 billion in assets under management as of March 31, names Brian McKenna VP, investor relations, effective June 15... The Center for AI Safety appoints Rochelle Nadhiri as head of public engagement. 
Kieran Mahoney, who founded Mercury Public Affairs more than 27 years ago, has stepped down as CEO and assumed the executive chairman post.
