Ogilvy chairman and former global CEO Christopher Graves was elected chairman of the Council of PR Firms for 2015 and will take the reins from FleishmanHillard chief Dave Senay.
Graves chaired CPRF's Critical Issues Forum for the past two years.
"He is the perfect person to lead our organization into the future," said CPRF president Kathy Cripps.
CPRF also tapped Aaron Schoenherr, founding partner of Chicago's Greentarget, as secretary and Bryan Harris, COO and managing partner at Taylor, as treasurer.
Joining the trade group's board are Virginia Devlin, president, Current; Carrie Jones, managing partner, JPA Health Communications; Daryl McCullough, CEO, Citizen Relations; Todd Hansen, principal, O'Malley Hansen Communications; Ron Sachs, president/CEO Sachs Media Group, and Karen van Bergen, CEO, Porter Novelli.
Amy Travieso is leaving the US Chamber of Commerce to join the American Hotel & Lodging Assn. as VP-government affairs responsible for regulatory/legislative affairs on technology, innovation and other policy matters. (1 reader comment)
USTelecom has named Jeremy Pederson, who was senior manager of federal affairs at Frontier Communications, VP-government affairs.
The Association for Applied Sport Psychology has named New York-based PR agency The Rosen Group agency of record.
Mark Olson, who opened a San Francisco outpost for Max Borges Agency in 2014, has moved to Lewis as a VP to oversee its PR practice in that city.
Vox Solid Communications has been named agency of record for the Las Vegas chapter of the Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International.
