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Olga FlemingOlga Fleming, executive vice president of Cohn & Wolfe Group subsidiary Y&R PR, has been promoted to the role of chief executive officer.
Fleming has held the executive VP title since Y&R’s inception in 2013. She was previously executive VP and managing director of Cohn & Wolfe’s New York healthcare practice. Prior to that, she was a senior counselor at Chandler Chicco’s Biosector 2 unit and a senior VP at Fleishman-Hillard’s CPR Worldwide, where she managed NY and London teams. Earlier in her career, she was a VP at Weber Shandwick.
Fleming will be based in New York and will continue reporting to C&W CEO Donna Imperato.
Actum has hired Cecelia Prewett, who was president of DC Public Affairs at SKDK during a nearly 13-year run, as senior managing director in its Washington office.
Franz Paasche, who was most recently EVP for public affairs and communications at Columbia University, will join Verizon as EVP, corporate affairs, effective Nov. 10.
Horizon Family Brands, which includes Horizon Organic and Wallaby Organic yogurt, hires Andrew Springate as CMO... Wake Tech, a Raleigh, NC community college that serves over 70000 adults annually, brings on Lisa Marie Ferrell, who previously led North America communications at Lenovo, as VP of communications and marketing... Golin brings on executive creative director Meg Farquhar in Chicago, and EVPs of strategy Tom Howells (Western Region) and Martin Coomber (New York).
Hotwire Global appoints Burson global chief digital & intelligence officer Grant Toups as global CEO, effective in January.
Bader Rutter, which works with clients in the agriculture, food, beverage and pet care sectors, appoints Demar Anderson as CMO... Acceleration Community of Companies appoints Michael Moschella to lead its new insights division, ACC Intelligence... Luminate, a London-based shop focused on infrastructure and energy sectors, hires Osman Dervish as director—head of development... The Alpine Group promotes Alison Graab to principal from SVP.
