The Grapevine: VP Hires

July 2006 Archive

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July 25, 2006

Company: Burson Marsteller, NY

Hired: Tony Jewell as Managing Director reported to Ame Wadler, Chief Strategic and innovation officer and chairman of Burson’s global healthcare practice

Company: Chandler Chicco, healthcare boutique PR agency

Hired: Fiona Hall, as Managing Director, European Operations

Company: Chandler Chicco

Hired: Neil McGregor-Paterson as Managing Director, European operations; Gail Cohen will remain acting MD for Europe through the end of the year

Company: Cohn & Wolfe, NYC

Promoted: Jeremy Clark as Managing Director of the firm’s NY healthcare practice relocating from London in Sept. where he was MD of the healthcare practice, London.

Company: Novacea, a biopharma co. in So. SFO

Hired: Paul Laland, Vice President, Corporate Communications.

Company: Ogilvy PR Worldwide, NY

Hired: Michael Durand as Managing Director with an expertise in Healthcare, previously launching major drugs for Aventis, Novartis and Merck/Schering-Plough. He is now part of the overall strategy and planning and member of its team of global senior counselors.

Company: Ogilvy PR Worldwide, NYC

Promoted: Matthew Della Croce, the SVP of the Corporate Practice to director of the newly created unit, Ogilvy Financial

Company: Omnicom’s Brodeur Group, NYC

Hired: Charlotte Wray to start a new healthcare division, reporting to Brodeur Group CEO Andrea Coville.

Company: Zeno Group, an Edelman company

Hired: Paul Oestreicher to head the US healthcare practice, NYC. Paul had been with Edelman in Chicago. He replaces Charlotte Wray who left for Omnicom’s Mosaic Health Communications. And, so goes the agency merry-ground as the frantic (re)hiring pace continues.

Company: Schering-Plough, Kenilworth, N.J.

Hired: Catherine Cantone as Director of Global Product Communications, reporting to Mary-Frances Faraji, VP of global product communications and advocacy relations

Company: Fleishman-Hillard, Amsterdam

Promoted: Harald Simons, MD, to the additional post of marketing director of the EMEA. (Europe, Middle East, Africa)

Company: Hill & Knowlton, DC

Hired: Betsy Relic as SVP and Public Affairs Director reporting to Kelli Parsons, SVP and Washington GM.

Company: Hill & Knowlton, DC.

Hired: Norman Mineta, as Vice Chairman, formerly transportation secretary under Bush until July, 2006.

Company: Strat@comm, Fleishman-Hillard’s transportation PR unit

Hired: Eron Shosteck, formerly press secretary to now-House Speaker Denny Hastert no title announced

Company: Weber Shandwick, Austin

Hired: two former Edelman staffers as VPs: Justin Keener and Lara Stott. Thomas Graham EVP at WS was an SVP and deputy GM in Edelman’s Austin office until he left last April

Company: Weber Shandwick, Cambridge, MA

Hired: Tara Murphy as VP, Corporate Practice joining from NPR

Company: Weber Shandwick, NY

Promoted: Miguel Lopez-Quesada Gil to the new post of chairman, Iberia/Latin America. He will continue as CEO of WS, Spain.

Company: Boeing Commerical Airplane Group, Renton, WA

Promoted: Jim Schlueter to VP, Communications, replacing Tom Downey, promoted to corporate HQs.

Company: Euro RSCG Magnet

Hired: David Henderson, EVP and GM of the Washington office reporting to Lisa Sepulveda

Company: The Financial Relations Board, Chicago

Promoted: Claire Koeneman and Kathy Waller co-presidents reporting to Michael Kempner, CEO of FRB.

Company: Florida Atlantic University

Promoted: Aileen Izquierdo to VP of communications and Marketing

Company: G.S. Schwartz & Co. NYC

Hired: Douglas J. Novarro as a Senior VP

Company: Don Klores, NYC

Hired: Wendy Sachs as VP for advertising, media and nonprofit accounts.

Company: The Jeffrey Group, HQ’d in Miami

Hired: Jeffrey Sharlack to head the new office in NYC and support growth of US Hispanic division

Company: Lime PR + Promotion

Hired: Alissa Pinck as Account Director; she was formerly a VP.

Company: Manning Selvage & Lee, NYC

Hired: Holly Heline Jarrell as SVP/Director of insight and reputation development

Company: McCormick & Co., Sparks, Md

Promoted: John McCormick to VP, Corporate Communications

Company: The Morris & King Co.

Hired: Caren Browning as VP formerly senior media director with Hunter PR.

Company: Nielsen Media Research, owned by VNU’s Media Measurement and Information Group, NYC

Hired: Karen Watson, Senior Vice President, Communications reporting to CCO, Jack Loftus

Company: Physician Insurers Association of America, Rockville, MD

Hired: Eric Anderson, Director of PR and Mktg.

Company: Pierpont Communications, Houston

Hired: Terry Hemeyer as Senior Counsel drawing this seasoned and well respected veteran out of retirement.

Company: PlanetOut, SFO, Gay and Lesbian media company

Hired: Kevin Nyland as VP, Corporate Communications and IR.

Company: Porter Novelli, NY

Promoted: Inge Kauer as the new director of the EMEA region while continuing in her role as Managing Director of PN’s office in the Netherlands.

Company: PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS INC, Chicago

Promoted: to SVP, Kathleen Boylan, Leigh Wagner; to VP, Peter Barry

Company: Waggener Edstrom, w/ HQ’s in Seattle

Hired: Kay Hart in Dallas to manage the firm’s offices in Dallas and Austin, working with Sarah Russ, GM in Austin.

Company: Waggener Edstrom

Promoted: Winnie Lau to Beijing as GM; she was GM in Hong Kong

Company: Waggener Edstrom

Hired: Rachel Catanach, from New Zealand firm Sweeney Vesty, to be GM in Hong Kong

Company: Waggener Edstrom

Appointed: Shaun Wootton, GM of Waggener Edstrom’s Germany operations, to become GM in Singapore and Southeast Asia markets.

Company: Western Union Financial Services, Denver

Hired: Richard Badler as SVP Communications and IR. Badler will lead financial communications for a planned spin-off from parent company First Data Corp.

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July 13, 2006

Company: 5W Public Relations

Hired: Juda S. Engelmayer as the vice president of the firm's Corporate & Governmental Issues practice. He was formerly chief communications officer for the American Jewish Congress.

Company: BLAZE, Los Angeles, a DAVIES company

Hired: A new senior executive, Jeannine O’Malley as principal and practice leader.

Company: Davies , Santa Barbara, California

Hired: Three (senior) project managers. Dan Gurley, Sara Costin, and Joanne Thornton and each will lead a team of public affairs professionals.

Company: Hill & Knowlton

Relaunch: H&K Digital, under the leadership of “emerging media” expert, Julie Atherton, Senior Vice President and US Director of H&K Digital.  Julie was with CYLO, a digital interactive consultancy that she founded in 1998.

Company: Marriott International, Inc.

Hired: Kathleen Matthews, formerly news anchor, reporter and producer of ABC News 7 (WJLA-TV) in Washington, D.C., as the company’s executive vice president – global communications and public affairs, assumes title December 1 when incumbent retires.

Company: Tier One Partners, LLC

Hired: Andrea Roesch, as senior partner to lead its West Coast region.

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July 3, 2006

Company: APCO's Worldwide research and message development unit, APCO Insight, Europe

Hired: Phil Riggins in charge of the unit

Company: Burson-Marsteller, DC

Hired: Rob Tappan, from State Dept’s principal deputy assistant secretary for public affairs, as head of the Washington D.C. region.

Company: Dan Klores Communications, NYC

Hired: Wendy Sachs as a VP. Sachs is a former “Dateline NBC” producer

Company: Dittus Communication

Hired: Peggy Binzel as a Sr. VP in DC.

Company: Dow Chemical

Hired: GolinHarris' Patti Temple Rocks its VP-global communications and reputation

Company: Edelman, Los Angeles

Hired: Jim Giggins, as Senior VP and head of Southern Ca. Public Affairs team. Formerly Giggins was a correspondent for NBC and ABC.

Company: Kiner Communications

Hired: Andrea Carter as Vice President, Account Manager

Company: Linhart McClain Finlon PR, Denver

Hired: Paul Raab as SVP

Company: Microsoft

Hired: Andrea Taylor as Director of US community affairs formerly founding director of the media fund at the Ford Foundation

Company: Weber Shandwick, Chicago

Hired: Steve Singerman as EVP in charge of consumer accounts

Company: Blanc & Otus, SF

Hired: To announce a new President and CEO within two weeks

Company: Blanc & Otus, SF

Promoted: Quinn Daly to GM of SFO office, one of the roles held by Greg Specter, B&O ex President and CEO

Company: Ruder Finn

Promoted: Glenn Jasper managing director of Israeli operations. RF acquired Jasper’s firm.

Company: Engage PR, Alameda, CA

Promoted: Jeannette Bitz to VP, a 10-year veteran

Company: Canon USA, Lake Success, NY

Promoted: William Reed to SVP/GM leading the Corporate Communications Division

Company: Corporate Ink, Boston/Worldcom PR Group

Appointed: Amy Bermar, president and founder, as co-chair of the Technology Practice Area of the Worldcom Public Relations Group. This is the world’s largest network of independently owned public relations counseling firms.

Company: McGrath/Power Public Relations/Worldcom PR Group

Appointed: Lisa Murray, a senior vice president, as chair to the group this year. Both leaders were elected at the worldwide meeting in New York this spring.

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