Bank Rhode Island -- Marie T. van Luling (ex-Manning
Selvage & Lee/Aetna Life & Casualty) has joined the
Providence, R.I.-based bank as senior vp/marketing and corporate
communications. She will be responsible for managing all
communications for the company. Bank Rhode Island is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Bancorp Rhode Island Inc....Contact:
Jim DeRentis, 401.456.5015, [email protected]
Burson-Marsteller -- Liz Van Lenten, who previously ran
her own marketing communications firm, has been tapped for managing
director of Burson's Brand Marketing Practice in Chicago. She'll be
responsible for client management and for driving strategy for the
agency's food, beverage and consumer packaged-goods
accounts...Contact: Jennifer Norton, 212.614.5243, [email protected]
Equity Office Properties Trust -- Elizabeth Coronelli
(ex-General Growth Properties Inc.) is the new senior
vp/investor relations for the Chicago-based realtor. Coronelli, who
also will head the company's PR, will deal directly with Wall
Street analysts, institutional investors and other
shareholders...Contact: Melissa Shubalis, 312.466.3460, [email protected]
Hill & Knowlton -- Two new appointments for the
agency's Washington, D.C., office: Hadassah Lieberman (wife of Sen.
Joseph Lieberman [D-Conn.]), whose career spans three decades in
healthcare communications, has been named senior counselor in the
Health & Pharmaceuticals Practice, while former CNN
health reporter Jeffrey Levine has been tapped as senior vp of
Healthcare Media Relations. Lieberman will serve as a strategic
counselor on healthcare policy and public-health initiatives while
Levine will work directly with healthcare editors, reporters, et
al....Contact: Lisa Dreisch, 202.944.5158
Lipman Hearne Inc. -- Peter Coffey, who most recently
served as a senior advisor in Barack Obama's successful campaign in
Illinois for the U.S. Senate, has been named senior vp of the
firm's public-affairs practice in Chicago. Coffey's marching
orders? Build up the Chicago office of Lipman Hearne, one of the
nation's largest communications firms specializing in the
non-profit sector...Contact: Keith Romero, 312.356.8000
x270, [email protected]
LVM Group Inc. -- Executive VP Jeannette Boccini
(ex-Sonnenblick-Goldman Co.) is the latest principal of the
New York-based PR agency. Boccini, a 17-year PR veteran, joined LVM
Group in 2001...Contact: David Grant, LVM president and
founder, 212.499.6565, [email protected]
Manning Selvage & Lee -- The agency's Boston office
has expanded its healthcare and consumer practices with the
appointments of Jeffrey Tarmy (ex-Biopure Corp.) as vp in
the healthcare group and Daniel O'Neill (ex-The Brownstein
Group) as senior account supervisor in the consumer group.
Tarmey will manage global and local communications programs for Philips Medical Systems and BioSphere Medical;
O'Neill will focus on brand marketing, strategic communications and
media relations for Hasbro Inc....Contact: Deirdre
Dapice, 212.468.3406, [email protected]
New School University -- Nancy Donner (ex-New York
Public Library) has joined the New York City-based university
as vp/communications and external affairs. She'll oversee
marketing, advertising, publications, graphic design and PR for the
university and its eight academic divisions...Contact:
Gloria Gottschalk, 212.229.5667 x3547, [email protected]
Restaurant Associates -- Restaurant Associates - Patina
Group, a bi-coastal group representing world-famous properties in
New York and Los Angeles (The Sea Grill, Brasserie) has
appointed Julie Priceman (ex-Disney, PBS), as senior
vp/marketing and communications. In addition to being responsible
for the management of the Restaurant Associates-Patina Group brand,
Priceman will oversee all marketing, communication policies and
strategic positioning...Contact: Kay Nelson, 212.789.7911, [email protected]
Vollmer Public Relations -- Two promotions at the
largest independent PR agency in the Southwest: Denisha Stevens,
formerly senior vp and general manager of the firm's Dallas office,
has been promoted to executive vp; and Janelle O'Haugherty has been
promoted to vp from an account director. Stevens will continue to
provide strategic and operational counseling to accounts serviced
from the Dallas office, while O'Haugherty now will direct PR
strategy for the HQ Global, Guest Bridge and Dallas
Social Venture Partners accounts as well as being part of the
firm's new business-development efforts...Contact: Kristi
Manning, 972.488.4790, [email protected]
