 Carrie Lannon |
Lannon was previously national director of PR for beauty retailer ULTA Beauty, where she directed strategy for publicity, social media and special events, and developed the beauty store chain’s first public relations department. She also founded her own consultancy, Lannon Consulting, and was founder and president of luxury, lifestyle, fashion and real estate agency Lannon Communications, which she led from 1996 to 2008. She was also previously director of promotions and PR for InterContinental Hotels & Resorts.
Zapwater clients include Kimpton Hotels & Resorts, Visit Finland, CMK Companies, Hyphen Sleep, LLC and Jins Eyewear.
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.
FGS Global brings on Harry Florry as head of Singapore and Andrew Yeo as global policy partner Asia... ACORE CAPITAL, a commercial real estate debt investment manager, appoints Cynthia Holahan as CMO, a newly created role at the company... NVE Experience Agency, a global brand experience firm, hires Justin Biskin as SVP in its sports marketing practice. Biskin joins NVE from Nike.
Ipsos, a market research and polling company, appoints Marion Beyret as chief communications officer... TENEX.ai, an AI‑native, human‑led SOC (security operations center) appoints Richard Rogers as CMO... Arizona Athletics hires Carter Toole as chief communications officer and senior associate athletics director.
