Laura Braden Quigley, who managed business communications for the Sacramento Kings, has moved to the California Medical Association as VP of communications for the Sacramento-based group.
Quigley, who has been running her own shop for the past nine months, oversees internal and external communications for the CMA, which counts more than 41,000 members.
Prior to the Kings, she was a VP at Mercury Public Affairs and deputy communications director in the administration of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. She was deputy director for operations/planning for Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential bid and earlier worked on the agency side with DCI Group in Washington.
Senior leaders have been exiting newly combined agencies since the wave of integrations started—the kind of departures that don't always make headlines but show up in who's running client accounts six months later.
Why CEO visibility is no longer optional as a communications tactic.
The “waiting period” that was once set aside for CEOs to develop their strategies before facing media scrutiny may be better used for corporate comms leaders get to know their CEO and what his or her short-term priorities will be.
Senior-most communications executives in the Fortune 500 earned between $50,000 and $100,000 more this year than they did two years ago, according to a recent survey of chief communications officers.
