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| Joseph Chong |
Zum, which provides transportation solutions to more than 4,000 schools across 14 states, appoints Joseph Chong as CMO. Chong was most recently CMO at identity verification software company Incode. He has also held senior marketing posts at Zoom, Salesforce and Twitter. In his new post, Chong will lead Zum's marketing strategy and execution as the company accelerates national expansion. Zum currently serves school districts including Los Angeles Unified, San Francisco Unified, Oakland Unified, Seattle Public Schools, Boston Public Schools, Omaha Public Schools, and St. Louis Public Schools. "Joseph's experience building and scaling trusted brands aligns perfectly with where Zum is today,” said Zum founder and CEO Ritu Narayan.
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| Claudine Cheever |
Pinterest brings on Amazon VP global brand and marketing Claudine Cheever as CMO. Cheever had been with Amazon since 2016, previously serving as global GM of brand and marketing, and global GM Amazon integrated advertising. Her previous experience includes design and strategy posts at Spark Foundry, Saatchi & Saatchi and McCann Worldgroup. Pinterest CEO Bill Ready Cheever told Axios that Cheever will be responsible for "making sure that every person out there understands exactly what Pinterest stands for." Pinterest has also named former DoorDash and BuzzFeed chief revenue officer Lee Brown to serve as its chief business officer.
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| Laura Andrejicka |
energi PR adds Laura Andrejicka to its Toronto office as account manager. Andrejicka has been a senior consultant for Veritas Communications and Stragtegic Objectives, and was most recently marketing communications specialist for WFCU Credit Union. She has worked with clients in the healthcare, beauty, food and beverage sectors, including Merck Canada, L’Oreal Paris, Labatt Breweries of Canada, Dexcom Canada, Canadian Tire, Weber Grills, and Subway. At energi PR, Andrejicka will support the agency’s healthcare and consumer wellness communications. “Laura brings an impressive mix of experience and thoughtful communications expertise,” said energi PR SVP client services Stephanie Engel.
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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. 
