Mark H. Mahoney launched M2 Public Relations in Whitefish Bay, WI. Mahoney was formerly an account manager with Fishman Public Relations.
Jim Nail, most recently principal analyst at Forrester Research, has been named the first-ever chief marketing and strategy officer at Cymfony, an automated
media measurement, market research and business intelligence company based in Watertown, Massachusetts.
David Schull got the nod as Euro RSCG Life of PR and Noonan Russo's new senior vice president and managing director of the California office, located in San Diego.
Before joining Euro RSCG Life, Schull was the senior vice president of Thorp & Company, a Coral Gables, Fla.-based PR firm.
Dianne VanBeber took on an expanded role at global communications provider Intelsat as the new vice president of investor relations and corporate communications.
Before first joining Intelsat in 2001, VanBeber was vice president of investor relations at Gilat Satellite Networks.
Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide announced five new additions to its Washington, D.C. office: Linda Weinberg, senior vice president, homeland security group; Bryan
Callahan, vice president, social marketing; Laurie Sodano, human resources director; Dayle Stein, senior interactive producer; and Abby Kral, account director, health policy
group.
Tina Ruggiero, director of Burson-Marsteller's brand marketing practice, accepted a teaching position as an adjunct professor of public relations at the University
of Chicago.
Dallas-based BlueCurrent Public Relations hired Keith Lester as vice president and Dione Martin as managing supervisor. Lester was formerly vice president/group
supervisor at Bader Rutter & Associates and Martin was previously market segment manager at USAA, a financial services company.
Scott Ward was promoted from vice president to senior vice president of Washington, DC-based Widmeyer Communications. Stacey Finkel rejoined the agency as an assistant
vice president after spending nearly a year as a director with DBC Public Relations Experts.
In Error: The profile of Alissa Blate in the November 23 edition had the incorrect e-mail contact. She can be reached at [email protected].
