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| (L-R) Annie Moore, Mark Emerson |
Dezenhall Resources promotes Annie Moore and Mark Emerson to vice president. Moore was previously senior director of digital at the agency, specializing in digital strategy, coalition building and public affairs campaigns. She was also founder of Activate Strategies. Emerson, most recently a senior director, assists clients with communications, internal alignment and organizational planning. Before coming to Dezenhall, he was operations and marketing manager at Toronto-based Proof Strategies. Dezenhall has also promoted Kaci Donegan to director, Nathaniel Beach to senior advisor, and Helen Taylor to advisor. “Recognizing these colleagues reflects both their outstanding work and Dezenhall’s momentum,” said president Josh Culling.
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| Dani Cushion |
Teads, a cloud-based advertising platform, names Dani Cushion as CMO. Cushion previously led global marketing and communications at ad tech platform Innovid. She has also held the CMO spot at ExecOnline and Cardlytics, as well as serving as senior manager, partner marketing at Sirius XM. In her new position, Cushion will be responsible for the company’s brand, communications, and go-to-market strategy, with a mandate to support growth for advertisers, agencies and publishers. “Dani has a proven ability to translate complex industry dynamics across CTV and the open internet into actionable marketing strategies that drive real business results,” said Teads CEO David Kostman.
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| Genefa Murphy |
JFrog, a software company, appoints former Hewlett Packard Enterprise global VP of corporate marketing and communications Genefa Murphy as CMO. Murphy was most recently chief marketing & content officer at Udemy, an AI-powered skills development platform. She has also been CMO at Five9 and SVP & CMO at Micro Focus. Murphy will oversee JFrog’s global marketing organization from its U.S. headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. “Genefa’s proven ability to accelerate growth will be instrumental as we leap forward," said JFrog CEO and co-founder Shlomi Ben Haim.
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.
