- PR News announces the addition of three highly-regarded industry leaders to its Advisory Board: Chris Hammond, vice president for communications and business
development at Wells Fargo; Brenda C. Siler, national director of communications and marketing for the United Negro College Fund; and Mary Wong, director of
community relations at Office Depot.
- The Coca-Cola Company named Tom Mattia director of worldwide public affairs and communications; he will also join the company's executive board. He was vice president
of global communications at EDS.
- EDS replaced Tom Mattia by tapping Jeff Baum to become its vice president of global communications. He was the Plano, TX-based company's vice president of external
relations.
- Alyse Myers, vice president in charge of marketing for the New York Times Media Group, was promoted to senior vice president/chief marketing officer.
- Megan Colligan joined the Hollywood distributor Paramount Classics as executive vice president of publicity and promotions. She was vice president at Fox
Searchlight.
- Crispin Read is the new chief marketing officer and Jonathan Stotts is the new director of public relations for Cartesis, a business management performance software
company in Norwalk, CT. Read was vice president for project management at Business Objects and Stotts was public relations manager at Information Builders.
- Martin Peters is the new communications and dealer education manager at Yamaha Marine Group, Roswell, GA. He was manager of public relations for Porsche Cars North
America.
- Elektra Gray was promoted from director of public relations to vice president of consumer public relations for the Independent Film Channel, New York.
- Stu Zakim is now vice president of corporate communications at Showtime, the New York-based cable television network. He had been senior vice president of corporate
communications for American Media.
- The Cape Cod Baseball League announced the re-appointments of John Garner Jr. as director of public relations/broadcasting and Jim McGonigle as director of
communications for the 2006 season.
- Terry Hynes, dean of the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida, Gainesville, has become the new assistant vice president for university
relations. Hynes' job will include raising media coverage for the university.
- The Dairy Farmers of America promoted two vice presidents to senior vice president level. John Wilson is now senior vice president for marketing and industry affairs
and David Geisler is senior vice president for administration (which encompasses communications and public relations).
- David Early, former spokesman for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, is the new director of communications for the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial
Commission in Washington, D.C.
- The Procaccianti Group, a real estate investment company headquartered in Providence, RI, named Ralph V. Izzi, Jr. the director of marketing communications, a new
position. He was vice president of marketing and corporate communications for Vanguard Integrity Professionals headquartered in Las Vegas.
- Janet E. Bergman, former senior vice president for corporate relations at Sara Lee Corp., is the new partner in Beacon Advisors Inc. in Chicago.
- *David A. Prichard is the new director of investor relations at Corn Products International, Westchester, IL. He was director of investor relations and corporate
communications at Modine Manufacturing Co.
- Mira Williams was promoted to director of public relations of the Central Illinois Community Blood Center, Springfield. She was a donor recruiter for the
organization.
- Fleishman-Hillard in Minneapolis/St. Paul promoted Robert N. Hanvik from senior vice president to partner and general manager.
- Serge Dumont is the new senior vice president for Omnicom Group Inc. and president of Omnicom Asia-Pacific. Now based in Tokyo, Dumont previously ran his own PR
consulting group in China.
- Sharon Robustelli is the new senior vice president for consumer healthcare at HealthSTAR Public Relations, LLC, in New York. She was senior director of WNBA
Communications at the National Basketball Association.
- Innovative Communication Corporation, West Palm Beach, FL, has named Marvin Dejean director of public relations. He was the head of PR at Minority Development and
Empowerment, a nonprofit in Fort Lauderdale.
- St. John & Partners Advertising & Public Relations, Jacksonville, FL, hired Shawn Parks as associate media director. He comes to the agency from Kelly,
Scott & Madison, where he was a planning supervisor.
- Boston-based 360 Public Relations hired Jenny Viscarolasaga as vice president. She comes from her own agency Two Roads Communications.
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