The Grapevine: Job Openings

February 2006 Archive

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February 27, 2006

Agency Positions:

Company: Airfoil (SE Michigan and Silicon Valley)

Title: Vice President (either location?)

Company: Burson Marsteller

Title: lost its COO based in Europe; no replacement named; decision on hold to fill position

Company: Cooper Katz, NYC

Title: lost SVP in charge of PR for Word of Mouth Marketing

Company: Edelman

Title: lost a VP, media relations, Chicago

Company: Frank About Women (Winston Salem No. Carolina)

Title: VP and also a New Business Development Leader (no specific level, but assume VP)

Company: Hill and Knowlton

Title: lost its Dir. US Corp. Practice in LA

Company: Horn Group

Title: lost its Managing Director in San Francisco (early 2006)

Company: Thunder Factory (Northern CA)

Title: lost a VP

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February 22, 2006

Preliminary information about searches:

Corporate Positions:

Company: AIG Group, NYC

Title: VP, Communications (Top post reporting to the new president. Korn Ferry has the assignment.)

Agency Positions:

Company: Edelman, SFO and Silicon Valley Office

Title: Openings at the EVP, GM level

Company: Ketchum

Title: SVP level, Director of Global Healthcare

Other Changes:

Company: Abbott Labs

Title: VP (Search on hold as of the end of 2005; the position was not funded)

Company: Aetna

Title: Lost its VP, Corporate PR

Company: Edelman

Title: Lost its SVP, consumer practice, LA

Company: Novaritis

Title: Lost its head of pharmaceutical communications

Company: Tyco, Princeton, NJ 

Title: No longer has a SVP of Marketing and Communications and will not fill the position

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February 8, 2006

Preliminary information about searches:

Corporate Positions:

Company: CIT Group, Inc., Livingston NJ

Title: Sr. VP level (reopened last Nov. current status not known)

Agency Positions:

Company: APCO Worldwide

Title: loses VP, Healthcare (no successor announced)

Company: Berns Communications Group, NY

Title: Vice President

Company: Bock Communications (high tech agency), Orange County, CA

Title: Vice President

Company: Edelman, NY

Title: Vice President

Company: Euro RSCG Magnet

Title: Lost their VP and deputy national technology practice leader (no replacement named)

Company: Feinstein Kean Healthcare (Ogilvy), Cambridge, MA

Title: VP/SVP Healthcare

Company: Fleishman-Hillard

Title: Managing Supervisor/Vice President Hispania

Company: Fleishman-Hillard

Title: Senior Vice President, Healthcare Public Relations

Company: Fleishman-Hillard

Title: Sr. VP, Business to Consumer Marketing, Chic.

Company: Gavin Anderson, NYC

Title: VP/Sr. VP

Company: GCI Group

Title: Vice President, Consumer Marketing

Company: GCI Group

Title: loses Senior VP Healthcare (no successor announced)

Company: Golin Harris -- Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles and Irving (CA offices)

Title: Tech PR positions at VP levels

Company: Manning Selvage & Lee, NYC

Title: Senior VP Healthcare

Company: Morrissey & Co., Boston

Title: Lost a Senior VP (no replacement named)

Company: Noonan Russo, division of Euro RSCG Life PR

Title: Vice President NYC (life sciences/healthcare)

Company: Padilla Speer Beardsley

Title: Vice President, (Health Care/Medical Device) Minneapolis

Company: Weber Shandwick, Boston

Title: Lost an SVP (no replacement named)

Company: Widmeyer Communications, DC

Title: Vice President, Business Development

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