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| (L-R) Jonathan Ashworth, Laura Gabb, Ben Stetson |
Weber Shandwick names Jonathan Ashworth UK chairman of public affairs and Laura Gabb joins the agency as EVP, head of UK public affairs. A former Labour Party MP, Ashworth was a longstanding member of Labour Party leader (and now Prime Minister) Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet. He previously served as a senior political adviser to Gordon Brown during his time as both Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister. In his new role, Ashworth will focus on providing strategic counsel on government relations, public policy and political risk. Gabb is a veteran of the Conservative Party press office, and has also served as a partner at 5654 & Company and managing director at FTI Consulting, At Weber, she will lead strategic public affairs initiatives and impactful campaigns. The agency has also promoted Ben Stetson, who has been part of Weber Shandwick’s public affairs team for over five years, to SVP in public affairs.
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| Jay Max Kraidman |
RooneyPartners promotes Jay Max Kraidman to partner. Kraidman originally joined the agency in 2018 as a creative strategist and social media manager, returning after a one-year hiatus in 2024 as director of copy, working across a variety of industry verticals, including financial services, education, technology and healthcare. Kraidman was previously a copywriter at Newsday Media Group. "I am thrilled to announce Jay’s elevation to partner given his proven leadership skills, creativity, passion for business excellence, drive for and commitment to superior client service and—most importantly, perhaps—his innate empathy and humanity, which in my view help sustain the Firm’s collaborative culture,” said founding partner Terry Rooney.
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| Amitresh Chaudhuri |
Calix, an appliance-based platform, cloud and managed services company, appoints Amritesh Chaudhuri as EVP and chief marketing officer. Chaudhuri was most recently president and chief growth officer at C1, a tech company providing connected human experiences. He has also served as a VP at Oracle Cloud, CMO at RingCentral, and EVP and CMO at 8x8. In his new post, Chaudhuri will lead the entire Calix go-to-market organization, including corporate, product, field and partner marketing. “Amrit brings the ideal combination of end-to-end go-to-market leadership, a customer-first mindset, and a track record of transforming teams,” said Calix president and CEO Michael Weening.
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.
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. 
