AT&T Wireless names Adele Ambrose EVP of public and investor relations, a new role for the company. She was most recently AT&T's VP of corporate media relations.
Scripps Networks, which owns HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network and the new Fine Living network, hires Cindy McConkey as VP, communications. McConkey was previously an EVP with
Ackermann Public Relations & Marketing.
Primedia promotes Karen Garrison to VP, corporate communications for the company's Business Magazines & Media division. Formerly, Garrison directed corporate
communications.
Leslie Hollingshead joins Vivendi Universal Publishing as senior manager, corporate communications. Hollingshead most recently worked in the corporate communications
department of Stamps.com.
Agency Moves
Edelman names Nancy Ruscheinski president of its Chicago office. She is a 14-year veteran of the company and the founder and president of Edelman Interactive Solutions.
Also in the Chicago office, Mark Shadle becomes managing director of corporate affairs, and Steve Singerman is named managing director of consumer brands and healthcare. Randoph
Pitzer becomes SVP, deputy general manager in the Chicago technology group.
Fleishman-Hillard Atlanta adds Katie Brazel to its healthcare practice group as managing supervisor. Brazel was formerly corporate communications manager at Healthcare.com, a
healthcare technology company. Also appointed is Peter Abel, as general manager of Watt/Fleishman-Hillard, F-H's Cleveland operation. He has been with F-H for 12 years.
BSMG Worldwide promotes Jody Venturoni to principal and deputy manager of the southwest office in Dallas. Venturoni began her career at BSMG 15 years ago, left to become
Sprint's director of public relations and employee communications, and then rejoined the agency in 1998. BSMG has also named Peter Duda, head of the Corporate Issues group in New
York, a principal. Duda specializes in corporate change management.
Bill Brewer joins Zimmerman, Laurent & Richardson Inc., an Iowa-based marcom firm, as SVP and director of PR. Brewer was previously SVP for CMF&Z in Des Moines, and a
communications director for the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship.
PepperCom hires Ann Barlow as Senior Director. Barlow has more than 20 years experience in technology and healthcare with a background in corporate reputation management.
She previously worked at Interpublic Group-subsidiary Mindstorm Communications.
Vollmer names Rick L'Amie VP. L'Amie. He oversees the Dallas office's hospitality, telecom, manufacturing and healthcare accounts and joined Vollmer from Stuart Bacon
Advertising & Public Relations 18 months ago as management supervisor.
John Jordan, former SVP at Porter Novelli, joins The Aker Partners as a consulting partner and director of the firm's health tech and technology practices. H e will launch a
new health technology practice.
Widmeyer Communications hires Therese Dozier as senior counsel. Dozier was the 1985 National Teacher of the Year and senior advisor to former U.S. Secretary of Education
Richard Riley.
Eisbrenner Public Relations, a Michigan- and South Carolina-based family PR firm, promotes Tom Eisbrenner and Lauren Eisbrenner to EVPs. Tom Eisbrenner joined the firm 10
years ago and became a VP in 1996. Lauren Eisbrenner joined the firm in 1998 after serving as VP of pmh Caramanning, a database marketing firm.
Todd Gershwin joins The Hamilton Group, a PR and marcom firm in New York, as VP. He was previously the assistant athletic director for marketing at St. John's University.
L.C. Williams & Associates, a Chicago-based PR and research firm, hires Briggen Wrinkle as VP. Wrinkle is a 10-year PR veteran who joins the firm from Kemper Lesnik
Integrated Communications. She has also worked at Cramer-Krasselt, the National Alzheimer's Association and Edelman.
Cerrell Associates Inc., a California-based public affairs firm, hires George McQuade, III, as its new media director. McQuade co-founded MAYO Communications.
