Earl V. Wells III was appointed director of public relations at Eric Mower and Associates, Buffalo, N.Y. He was media relations/public affairs manager with the Consolidated Edison Company, New York.
Paul Capelli was promoted from vice president, group manager, to senior vice president, associate director, by Ketchum Public Relations, Coral Gables, Fla.
Thomas Walek, formerly a principal of the Weiser Walek Group, New York, has joined Alan Towers Associates, New York, as executive vice president.
Kenneth Hagen has been named director of corporate communications and marketing at Cowen & Company, a New York-based investment firm. He was marketing services manager at AIG Inc. insurance co.
Kacie Cuddington, former media planner/buyer for Lewis Advertising in Rocky Mount, N.C., has joined the advertising and PR agency of Lesnik Himmselsbach Wilson Hearl & Hirsch, Myrtyle Beach, S.C.
Robert McGrath and Michael Antman have been named managing directors of The Weister Group's New York office and became shareholders Nov. 18. Previously, McGrath was senior director of PR and Antman was managing director of creative services.
Sarah Armstrong, former director of marketing services, has been named VP for the consumer marketing practice group of Porter Novelli in Washington, D.C.; and Susan Maguire, a specialist in health care promotion and publicity, has been promoted to vice president of Porter/Novelli's Health Care Practice.
Alan Tieuli has been promoted from account supervisor to vice president at Agnew, Carter, McCarthy Inc., a Boston-based PR firm.
Raymond S. Crosby, a former vice president, takes on the newly created position of executive vice president at Crosby Marketing Communications, Annapolis.
