Brendan Lewis, who held corporate communications posts at Shazam, Foursquare and LivingSocial, has landed at startup lab Expa as VP of communications.
Lewis exits the tech-savvy PR group Pramana Collective for the post, which is mainly based in New York with monthly stops in Expa's San Francisco base.
Expa started up in 2014 as a "studio" to work with tech entrepreneurs and the company itself was funded with about $50M in seed money from former eBay chief Meg Whitman and Virgin companies' founder Richard Branson.
In a blog post, Lewis said he will help shape overall company strategy, handling corporate, consumer and B2B communications, and assist in product launches, among other tasks.
He previously held corporate posts at Juniper Networks, VeriSign, and American Management Systems, and worked on the agency side with 463 Communications and Edelman.
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