 Kara Joyce |
Crosby Marketing Communications has hired Kara Joyce as integration/PR manager and Janae David as multimedia & digital marketing coordinator. They will support clients in the agency’s three specialized practice areas of healthcare, government, and nonprofits & causes.
Joyce comes to Crosby from Abel Communications, where she was a senior account executive. Before that, she was an account executive at Weber Shandwick, working on such accounts as Bank of America, Verizon, Healthcare.gov, Maryland Health Connection and the U.S. Army. At Crosby, she will support the firm’s work for the Health Resources and Services Administration’s national organ donation program, and Greenberg Gibbons, a leading real estate developer of mixed-used destinations.
 Janae David |
David joins Crosby from Baltimore Research Group, where she helped organize qualitative research programs. She will work with Crosby’s production and connections planning team to assist with project management, digital asset management and coordinating with outside vendors.
Crosby, a top provider on the GSA Advertising and Integrated Marketing Solutions schedule, provides integrated advertising, public relations, social media and digital marketing services.
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